Interesting stuff. I have just experienced a problem relating to the hose from the oil cooler to the auto trans coming free, apparently the copper rings in the banjo connections in the hose had broken down!! Luckily I caught it quick, so no damage to the transmission. Before that problem I had an issue with the autobox, basically changes were rough and after a good thrash from standstill if you let off fast there was an almighty thud which came from the gearbox, like it had dropped a cog too many. On a couple of occasions I lost drive altogether and then one time the engine light came on for about a day. Anyway while I had this hose fixed I asked if they could plug it in to see why these strange glitches were happening, no error reports were logged and no problem could be found. I took a technician out for a drive to see if I could replicate the fault and the car drove totally different and the car was smooth as, no matter how much abuse. They could not answer why it was soo better, they said it was possibly due to the hose being fixed and more oil in the box, but it had been like 6 months ago before the loose hose. My car is a Nov '03 build, so from reading this stream I can only guess that the PCM was updated when they plugged it in to the computers and they were not aware of this, or if they were choose not to mention it.
Any thoughts?
I am from England (UK) so excuse my terminology. Any other Brits on this forum??