i just picked up another maxma its a 97 with 230k auto ....car was driving fine for about a year then about a month ago my friend went to drive it and it went no where car was in drive but did nothing felt like it was in nuetral then if you shift it to down to 1 it will go fine then shift up to 2 still fine as soon as i put it in drive it feel like its in nuetral ...maybe some one has gone thru this before and can give me some insight ..just figured i would ask around before i put a new trans in ??
reverse works fine also

 

Is there fluid on the dipstick?

First thing to check.

 

yeah plenty of fluid

 

maybe the PNP switch is out of adjustment...how are all of the other gears?

when it drives does it shift strange?

 

in drive it doesnt shift move or attempt to move at all but if i manually put it down to drive 1 it will move ,last night was driving it back from the guy i got it from and i was going slow it drive 2 then it felt like something just clicked then it drove fine for a few blocks after i came to a stop it did it again had to manually shift

 

you need a transmission or a rebuild

 

Very interesting...what does it do in R?? You say that in D, it acts as if its in N. What about N? What does it do??

 

yeah reverse is fine when in nuetral it still no change ...but i dont think trans is bad because it worked fine all this time and just one day it started acting like this no signs at all of it going bad

 

what makes you think that have you been thru this before or your just guessing ... i just want to be sure before i spend un neccesary money

 

just say i have alot of experience on cars, the solenoid in your valve body that control the shifting, it's all inside your transmission

 

ok thanks for the heads up