FTO AUSTRALIA

Ok you search nazi's - I've tried searching for something at least similar to this problem but no such luck.

Background story of last two days:

Thursday - drove home from a camping trip out in rural NSW - dirt roads for a good part of the trip. Got home fine but car was filthy and covered in bugs.

I took it down to the local car lovers and gave the entire car a good hard clean (INCLUDING the engine bay - used low pressure wash). Took it home only to be presented with the infamous tiptronic keylock problem.

I followed some of the old threads here and disassembled steering wheel casing and fixed my problem.

This morning however, I took her out to drive to work and found that shifting from 1-2 and then 2-3 feels really wrong. As I push the gear stick up the engine starts reving harder - waits a few seonds - THEN kicks into gear, usually with a good rattle/shake of the car too. 3-4 is fine, feels exactly like it did before. This happens regardless of whether I'm the one shifting or if the autobox is doing it for me.

Now I'm stuck with this nasty shifting problem - no matter what revs I'm doing the car will sound like it's struggling once I push the gear lever up.

Ideas? Comments?

Suggest to check the Auto fuse in the engine bay fusebox (check for water in the fusebox and also maybe even reset the ecu as well. pm me and let me know how you go. Good luck

the problem might also be conicedental to the camping trip or cleaning, sounds like the auto might need a oil and filter change and maybe even adjustment.

Thanks guys!

Ok, I've reset the ECU and still I'm getting a shudder as I switch from 1st-2nd and then 2nd-3rd.

Other times, as I push the lever up she just holds the revs at the point where I "upped" a gear and THEN drops into the next gear.

This delay can be anywhere from 2 seconds to as long as 6 seconds.

I'm booking her in for a service regardless (she's 10k over -eeek) - anything I should tell this guy to look out for in particular?

Where are you doing the service?

A guy by the name of Nick at Ultimate Tunes in Phillip.

The owner of a red GR who lives at the bottom of my street recomended him when I had the car checked out.

Apparently services other FTO's as well.

Ok with that service out of the way - the shuddering problem has lessened somewhat.

But it's still there and definately noticable at high revs.

It's almost like a lag in the changing from 2nd to 3rd. Quite annoying as I do like to move through the gears quickly from time to time.

The mech isn't sure what to do, perhaps a transmission shop?? Shouldn't be that big a deal as the car's trans only has about 40k on it.

*sigh*

it sounds like a loose gear
a symptom that happen to me when i blew my gearbox
had the noise for around a month den the box blew when i redlined the engine

Alrighty, I guess it's "take it easy" time for now.

I'll have a trans shop open her up and take a look I guess.

No off roading for her next time either.