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Expert: - 2/5/2012


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Hey Roland! I was hoping if you could help me out here!

 Okay, around December last year I was turning a corner going home and my ball joint went out and my Sebring slammed down so I had to get it pulled into my yard. I noticed there was a ton of fluid left on the asphalt as well. I got the ball joint repaired and all, that's no longer a problem. However the transmission is now. I'm guessing when it slammed down it probably cracked or broke something in it, because I now know for a fact it's leaking. Not only that but it use to lag when shifting gears and now it'll shift but make a creaking noise. You press the gas and it goes nowhere and now the engine light is on as well. I was wondering if you could at least guess what went wrong with it? I'm thinking I'm probably going to need a new one or a rebuild or something cause it sounds shot to me. Other then that the car has been perfectly fine, no leaks anywhere else.

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Hi Tre,
It is not clear to me whether you found the transmission leak, whether you fixed that, and/or whether you refilled the transmission with fluid to the proper level. If you have done all that and you have an issue with the trans then I would seek out a fault code from the transmission control module. That can often be had for free at a nationwide autoparts store such as Autozone. If you get any 4-digit numbers from that process let me know what they are and we can go from there.
Roland

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