Hi. My name is Florin, I`m 58 and live since 1981 in Venezuela. I`m teaching music (cello) and graphic design (photos retouch).
I`m the owner of an Accent GS, 1998, 1.5l, coupe, automatic transmission. The last 5 years I`ve been suffering with this automatic transmission`s failures. The car begun to fail when should enter the last automatic step (change), I mean it is working normally up to 60-70 Km/h making the 2 inicial velocity changes normally. Then (and it`s worth if the road is tilted up) a little stroke comes and it refuse to go further, it remains at 60-70 Km/h and if I`m accelerating it reechs 3000-3500 RPM but the velocity remains on 60 Km/h. It`s like "sliding" on the 4th automatic velocity, dos not "catch" it. It had a very bad couple of month, some 2 years ago, when even the first change didn`t worked but after 5-10 minutes riding at 10-15 Km/h it was catching the 2nd change, but never the 3rd last one! At least, in July 2009 I had a scanner diagnosis and it indicated a MAF failure. I bought and mounted the new MAF and it came back to normality. Seems not to have the full engine/transmission power, a little more slow, but not too much, it worked well without failures. I was happy.
Now, the last 2 weeks, the failure went back. The same thing with the last change. It works ok some 10 minutes, then fails to go above the 60 Km/h. If I use the breaks, if I stop to pass some hole on the way etc, I feel a small stroke into the transmission, then it changes but refuse to enter the last change.
I was reading in internet that I should have reset the ECU after the MAF sensor replacement because the whrong error code is valid and this is the cause of the persisting failure.
The problem now is that no scanner can connect with my ECU. I have a whole week visiting the garages here, we used all the old and new scanners and no one could connect. Show an error cod "Connection failure"...
So, I can`t reset the ECU, I do not know if eventually y have another failure (sensors, selenoid etc) and so I should replace another transmission part and the worth is that in 2 weeks our family is supposed to have vacations and I`m skared to travel with my car in this bad state.
I`ll apreciate all the comments and help.
My best regards,
Florin
I`m the owner of an Accent GS, 1998, 1.5l, coupe, automatic transmission. The last 5 years I`ve been suffering with this automatic transmission`s failures. The car begun to fail when should enter the last automatic step (change), I mean it is working normally up to 60-70 Km/h making the 2 inicial velocity changes normally. Then (and it`s worth if the road is tilted up) a little stroke comes and it refuse to go further, it remains at 60-70 Km/h and if I`m accelerating it reechs 3000-3500 RPM but the velocity remains on 60 Km/h. It`s like "sliding" on the 4th automatic velocity, dos not "catch" it. It had a very bad couple of month, some 2 years ago, when even the first change didn`t worked but after 5-10 minutes riding at 10-15 Km/h it was catching the 2nd change, but never the 3rd last one! At least, in July 2009 I had a scanner diagnosis and it indicated a MAF failure. I bought and mounted the new MAF and it came back to normality. Seems not to have the full engine/transmission power, a little more slow, but not too much, it worked well without failures. I was happy.
Now, the last 2 weeks, the failure went back. The same thing with the last change. It works ok some 10 minutes, then fails to go above the 60 Km/h. If I use the breaks, if I stop to pass some hole on the way etc, I feel a small stroke into the transmission, then it changes but refuse to enter the last change.
I was reading in internet that I should have reset the ECU after the MAF sensor replacement because the whrong error code is valid and this is the cause of the persisting failure.
The problem now is that no scanner can connect with my ECU. I have a whole week visiting the garages here, we used all the old and new scanners and no one could connect. Show an error cod "Connection failure"...
So, I can`t reset the ECU, I do not know if eventually y have another failure (sensors, selenoid etc) and so I should replace another transmission part and the worth is that in 2 weeks our family is supposed to have vacations and I`m skared to travel with my car in this bad state.
I`ll apreciate all the comments and help.
My best regards,
Florin