Originally Posted by
Texas Thunderman
I bought a 2005 XFire sport coupe about 3 months ago. Found this forum right away.
About a week ago, the transmission started to drop into "safe" mode, where it won't shift above 2nd and limits speed to 35 mph. Thanks to this forum, I knew about the leaky electrical connection on the transmission. Checking under the car, yes, it was leaking xmssion fluid -- that I knew would be brown instead of red thanks to the knowledge I found here.
Pouring through the ample documentation on this site, I found that I could attempt the job myself. I chose instead to find a MB certified shop and with what I gleaned from this site, directed them on what I wanted done to repair the car.
I was right -- the xmission had lost at least two liters of fluid, causing the safe mode. The connector was leaking. They also found that the transmission gasket was also leaking. It was nearly three liters of ATF low.
Bottom line, $675 and it's fixed. Seems worth it to me. No other codes came up and it's good for another 100,000 miles. And it drives.
(Xref to
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...placement.html to read my full report with pictures on how to fix this, etc...
which will be complete in a couple of days.)
I just performed this maintenance (and more) in my home garage. I find it "humorous" that Chrysler refers to this problem as
NOT AN ACTUAL LEAK in their service bulletin. No,
the pilot bushing is merely "weeping". Please don't say it's leaking. (the SERVICE BULLETIN is attached as an Adobe document)
When you drop the pan and change the filter you are supposed to have 5 liters of ATF in your receptacle. Well I only had 3.3 liters. So my pilot bushing
'wept away' 1.7 liters. But it
DIDN'T LEAK 1.7 liters!