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My son has a 2000 Elanta and the transmission has weird intermittent problems. We will be going down the freeway at 70, 3000 rpm's, also happens at slower speeds, and suddenly it will shift into a lower gear i assume, the rpms will jump to 4,500 and will stay there. Nothing will help except coming to a complete stop, turn the car off and restart it. There is no pattern to this, will run fine for a while then for no reason, do it again. We took it to a trany shop and naturally they said it needed a new transmission. I'm not convinced its something simple like a sensor. Nothing shows up on a scan with regards to the drive line or trany. The car had 95k when we bought it and about 105 now. This vehicle has had continue problems, mostly with sensors. Doing a complete brake job on it now and to my "delight" discovered you cannot change the front rotor without tearing apart have of the front suspension! I've change a ton of brakes and rotors on cars from 1990 and newer and cannot believe how backwards this company is. I see they changed that in the 2001 year, only took them 10 years to figure it out. Anyway I digress, does anyone have any suggestions, short of replacing the trany, on other things I can look for. Is it possible some previous owner put non Hyundai fluid in it, thinking it was a normal car. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Rick
Rick
