Good luck with the repairs, so you can burn your fanclub (of haters) away at the track!!!!

 

lol...yeah im aiming at a 13.6-13.7 range

 

i couldn't STAND that when i had my auto.. i just knew it was horrible for my transmission, and that was part of my motivation for getting a manual

wow that sucks.. what evidence did they find in your transmission that was indicative of racing? i'm just wondering, cause it seems like they were on some CSI stuff.. lol

FYI.. i think AMSOIL ATF is better quality than mobil 1... after i started using mobil 1 synthetic my tranny started slipping... my tranny was probably doomed anyway, and it was probably just coincidence cause many people have used it with success, but AMSOIL is better quality anyway.. and if you're gonna be racing you want the best stuff in there protect it in those extreme conditions

 

evidence of racing - its all over the internet

 

i thought she meant something inside the tranny.. i was gonna say that even with all those videos on the internet, there's no way to prove that's her car doing the racing.. but since her car is so customized, it makes it a little harder to make that argument :/ they would need to have a clear shot of her car in the videos.. or they could have just traced the videos back to her IP address.. i'm just curious as to what evidence they used, and how they went about obtaining it

 

we can give advice on fixing this...but she needs to realize and admit that her own abuse caused the problem. why should Nissan cover a part that needs to be replaced due to abuse or neglect? they shouldnt, which is why it says that in ALL warranties.
we know she abused it...thats been well admitted on here. any good tranny company can tell that it was abused.
im not picking on her, just saying that she shouldnt be upset with nissan.
my motor mount went bad...i realize that it was due to my driving style (which is FAR from abuse). i dont blame nissan one bit.

 

actually i had an extended warranty through an after-market warranty company. MaxCare.

Also they didnt tear my tranny apart to see the evidence. he just researched me on the net. Nissan would have been my first choice to take my transmission to since they replace them and not rebuild them. im just mad they had my car for about 2 weeks when they coulda just told me they had evidence. so i ended up having to pay for the rental car. but all is good b/c my tranny is fixed now.

sooooooo.

 

what im thinking is that they used the maxima.org sticker on my car first. then traced everything from there. he prolly saw my car domain page. i mean i do has personalized tags also.

 

lesson to everyone on the org...you have to be responsible for what you do and what you say.
especially if your custom plates are the same as your screen name...

 

just saw that license plate pic... yeah that probably didn't help your case too much

 

Hey guys, since were on the topic...
My 02 (with 40k on it), flares a bit on the 2-3 shift, only when its cold. It will flare 200-300rpm. Doesnt do it when warm. Did a flush a couple of months ago, fluid level is good. Should i be concerned? Because it only does it when its cold, could it still be the TCM? Thanks for any input!

 

Might be, since someone mentioned that problem after installed a tranny cooler on a 5.5 gen with only 15k miles on it. My 2-3 shift doesn't flare when cold but it is pretty soft. I got one of D'Nene's TCMs, going to swap it out and see if that helps. The other possibility is the valve body. Could be o-rings shrinkage when cold is bleeding down hydraulic pressure.

 

I probably added 30+ hp to my Accord when I had it and the original transmission made it to 190,000 miles and I typically drove it pretty hard.

The first 3 times the shop rebuilt my transmission, it had problems right from the start and apparently so did D'Nene's. Most shops can't build import transmissions worth a crap so they look for an out when it comes to backing up their work. Unless they tore the transmission down (and I don't believe they did), they have no way of knowing whether it was the way she drove the car or that they didn't rebuild it right.

 

hmm...i did the flush with regular mercon/dexronIII, i wonder if using synthetic (like the mobil 1 ATF full syn) would help it at all? Another thing i noticed, if i maintained constant speed and manually shifted from 2-3 it would not slip, it would only slip when going from 2-3 on its own while accelerating....

 

yeah my bf unhooked my tranny cooler cuz he didnt know if that slowed down the line pressure of the tranny.

 

Most transmissions shift with max line pressure when you shift automatically, still could be a valve body problem and not the TCM. Once I figure out how to get the head unit out, I can swap the TCMs and see if there is a difference.

 

now thats easy....
remove vents (pop right out)
remove shifter surround (easy)
remove 4 screws
HU comes out

TCM is right there (under airbag module)

 

I bet it's a pain in the ***, but.... *cough* manual swap *cough*

Would've been easier than this hassle lol

 

Thanks.

 

IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!! Solution to the slipping tranny Problem. i went through all the same stuff most of the folks here went through trying to get my tranny to work right. (let me change that, i investigated all this stuff, i was too cheap to buy anything) i finnally found an honest Nissan mechanic and here is what he said (and what i did) and it worked!!!. there is a ground problem with this generation of maximas. there are too few grounding links between the engine, tranny and the body. if this is not a clean ground the tranny will not work right, the starter will not work right and people will be asking you to spend thousands to fix a $25 problem. first, there is a ground right below the battery, it always corrodes. fix this either by really cleaning it or running a new ground in it place. this also means the hole where it goes into the car, you need to have good electrical continuity. next, and this is what i did, run a new fresh ground with a new hole drilled into the car and rejoin the engine and tranny to a fresh ground. i did this and all my starting and slipping tranny problems went away. i cant guarentee this will work for everyone but it sure worked for me and it didnt cost a fortune to do it. Teddo

 

There is a known internal ground wire to valve body issue with our transmissions.

 

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I thought this may be interesting - -

I have a 2004 Iinfiniti I35 with the harsh 1-2 shift. The car is stored at another location and frequently goes a couple months without being used. Last time the car sat for a few months, my solar battery maintainer failed and the battery went completely dead for a couple months. When I replaced the battery the harsh 1-2 shift was completely GONE - could get it to shift hard if I tried. Then.... after a couple dozen starts, the problem began to return gradually, as if the trans computer was "learning" to shift hard 1-2 again.... This seems to rule out alot of the other suggestions related to the cause of the problem such as the drop resistor, shift solenoid, engine mounts, etc... Thoughts?

 

Swap TCM and see if it fixes it. Or replace valve body like everyone should be.