Hello all,
I feel a little foolish and I fear this may cost thousands... This morning coming into work I felt the car shifting roughly and tried sport manual mode to see if I could control the shifts a little better but it still seemed to "pop" into gear and would even shift from 2nd to 3rd automatically while in manual mode and finally, up came a transmission fault in yellow and the car went into neutral. I coasted to the side of the road and put it in Park, then tried Drive again and no go. It was still in Neutral. Last hope.... I turned the engine off and restarted and the car worked normally again but i know this is a stern warning that something is wrong.
While sitting at my desk trying to make sense of all this I remembered a burning smell that definitely wasn't motor oil. It smelled more like an oily rubber burning smell. Stupid me, I just ignored it these past few weeks so I'm wondering if this could simply be the result of a leak somewhere. Note that there are no oil stains on the garage floor and the smell is definitely there but quite faint.
Starting to feel my wallet deteriorate here lol. Aside from low tranny fluid and a possible leak would there be anything else that could cause this fault to pop up? Can anyone please help?
P.S. I'm at work right now so I'll scan the codes tonight. Brake lights all seem fine it have not checked the brake light switch yet.
I feel a little foolish and I fear this may cost thousands... This morning coming into work I felt the car shifting roughly and tried sport manual mode to see if I could control the shifts a little better but it still seemed to "pop" into gear and would even shift from 2nd to 3rd automatically while in manual mode and finally, up came a transmission fault in yellow and the car went into neutral. I coasted to the side of the road and put it in Park, then tried Drive again and no go. It was still in Neutral. Last hope.... I turned the engine off and restarted and the car worked normally again but i know this is a stern warning that something is wrong.
While sitting at my desk trying to make sense of all this I remembered a burning smell that definitely wasn't motor oil. It smelled more like an oily rubber burning smell. Stupid me, I just ignored it these past few weeks so I'm wondering if this could simply be the result of a leak somewhere. Note that there are no oil stains on the garage floor and the smell is definitely there but quite faint.
Starting to feel my wallet deteriorate here lol. Aside from low tranny fluid and a possible leak would there be anything else that could cause this fault to pop up? Can anyone please help?
P.S. I'm at work right now so I'll scan the codes tonight. Brake lights all seem fine it have not checked the brake light switch yet.