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[GTS-032]

Hi Everyone,

Well my Auto trans on my R32 GTS-T has just started to go a little nutty recently.

Pretty much every time i start up the car it takes 5-10 minutes for me to get the car into reverse. The issue seems to be the pin or whatever it is that clicks when you put your foot on the brake, sometimes it engages and other times it wont. I have tried to manually engage it with the little button at the front but this also seems stuck.

So pretty much I'm down to sitting in my car looking like an idiot shunting the gear stick left to right and pressing the brake franticly trying to get something happening.

Does anyone have any ideas, have you seen this problem before, or do you know of a good place to get it looked at in Melbourne? Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Edited February 26, 2007 by GTS-032

[Modena]

Hi Everyone,

Well my Auto trans on my R32 GTS-T has just started to go a little nutty recently.

Pretty much every time i start up the car it takes 5-10 minutes for me to get the car into reverse. The issue seems to be the pin or whatever it is that clicks when you put your foot on the brake, sometimes it engages and other times it wont. I have tried to manually engage it with the little button at the front but this also seems stuck.

So pretty much I'm down to sitting in my car looking like an idiot shunting the gear stick left to right and pressing the brake franticly trying to get something happening.

Does anyone have any ideas, have you seen this problem before, or do you know of a good place to get it looked at in Melbourne? Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Transmission mechanic.

[WazR32GTSt]

find the pin behind the shifter with the orange top and press it down.. if it doesn't go down, keep trying or once you actually get the "click" to happen when on the brake then try and engage this at that stage

once you get this presed down, hold it down, and get a black cable tie and tie it around the shifter with the fat end of the cable tie above the pressed-down button

tighten it so that the button is permanently pressed down by the cable tie

seriously is has no function.. you could argue that its a good security measure but everyone knows it exists...

my car started doing this once its something to do with the wiring between he brake and the gearbox. i have had zero problems for 3 years with the above fix

[[mez]]

I never knew what that pin with orange on the top did! Thanks Waz!

I was going to ask if you'd touched the Park-Lockout box/control unit - maybe tried to kill the reverse beeper?

Cause I tried to disconnect it and it locked itself in park - so I just muffled the speaker on the circuit board with blue-tack lol. Has made it better but not totally gone

[GTS-032]

' date='3 Mar 2007, 01:10 PM' post='2949830']

I never knew what that pin with orange on the top did! Thanks Waz!

I was going to ask if you'd touched the Park-Lockout box/control unit - maybe tried to kill the reverse beeper?

Cause I tried to disconnect it and it locked itself in park - so I just muffled the speaker on the circuit board with blue-tack lol. Has made it better but not totally gone

Nah have not tried to get rid of the beeper, better go see if i can get this pin to move i guess.

Another strange thing is it seems to engage without issues when warm.

Thanks for all the advice so far guys at least im getting some ideas of what to do.

Cheers.

[WazR32GTSt]

' date='3 Mar 2007, 12:10 PM' post='2949830']

I never knew what that pin with orange on the top did! Thanks Waz!

no worries mate..

its actually ther because normally you can't move the gearstick without the key in the ignition and foot on brake

but the button allows for manual override eg if you have to put it in neutral with the car off