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Evening,

Bought a spunky R34 a couple of days ago, with only 70,000 on the clock, was pretty chuffed with the whole thing, until i realised today when i was going 100 km/h, the thing was revving at about 3000rpm. :D

No matter what i do, i drive or titronic manual, The car will not go into 4th gear, it stays in third.

This doesn't make sense as the whole car is so immaculate and has no mods done to it whatsoever.

I'm wondering: Instant red flag on the transmission, or is this something wierd like a snow setting, or an electronics issue or what?

On the plus side, it's under warranty and the dealer is happy to help; but any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Alex

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hey dude i had a similar problem with mine a little while back.

is it stuck in 3rd the whole time, even when accelerating from stop too? if it is you have the same problem i had which is a common one in the auto R34's which is your transmission solenoids might need to be replaced. if your fine in terms of acceleration then it might not be the case but i would advise u to start there. if it is then ur probably lookin about 500-1000 bucks to fix. not sure if warranty covers that but if it does and thats the problem then ur in luck. i got charged 700 but the guy was a bit of a prick (long story).

hope that helps buddy, good luck :D

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Thanks for the info mate, so i'll definately start with solenoids on the list. But it's not stuck in third gear, it goes 1,2,3 smoothly and cleanly, which is why i find it so strang that i can't just go fourth. Surely the transmission would make more noise or summit if it was broken. 4 Even comes up on the Dash but it has definately not changed into it. In any case. I'll post what i find.

Cheers!

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heh fair enough. yeh mine was retarted. everything was fine, went for a 2 hour drive in the morning. come 6pm, im going to a wedding, start the car and start moving and barely any power at all. just randomly died on me. anyways, hope you find the solution mate

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Ive had problems also, with 4th, its would go up to 3rd but not 4th untill bout 80 or when it wants only on cold.

Also this mourning had a problem that was crusing in 4th 100km/h, auto decides to play funny an no rev response had to go back to 3rd to keep goin, turned car off waited 2mins started her back up all fine :cheers:

Dam r34 autos lol, what the price of a manual conversion?

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Ive had problems also, with 4th, its would go up to 3rd but not 4th untill bout 80 or when it wants only on cold.

Also this mourning had a problem that was crusing in 4th 100km/h, auto decides to play funny an no rev response had to go back to 3rd to keep goin, turned car off waited 2mins started her back up all fine :cheers:

Dam r34 autos lol, what the price of a manual conversion?

my car on cold start up in tip tronic mode does not shift to 4th, i notice once it gets up to operating temp it shifts fine. maybe its some kind of factory setting... i assume...i havent tried going faster when cold and changing after 80km/h thou...

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yeah i was reading on here its a factory setting until they're warm they dont shift into 4th until very late (later than they usually would)

as for manual conversion... i correct myself i paid 3k cash with a h/duty clutch etc using a r33 GTST box....

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shotgun mine too... but when i found out solenoids were like a grand i paid 1,500 more so 2500 all up and got it converted to a manual :huh:

woah wtf? 1k...mine were 350 brand spanking new from nissan :D . it was more the labour that ended up costing me about 800 but i got a transmission service with that 800 too. guess i wasnt ripped off after all =). yeh im planning on converting to manual soon when im on the green P's. since i got a while im lookin for cheap parts =)

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wondering if anyone can help, say im driving on the freeway 1st 2nd and 3rd gears run fine 4th wont go in sometimes when it does it'll flick itself back to 3rd drive 100km/h at 3.5-4k chewing the shit out of my fuel hope some one can help i've only had the car for 1week and loving it by the way forgot to mention its a 4door r33 so not triptronic

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Hey, bringing this post back!

The cars been in the shop still. Its been to three different mechanics and is now at a specialists; because neither of the first two could figure out what the hell was wrong.

If anyone has been down and got a car from power road automotive in Dandenong; and met the boys there; let us know your thoughts. If i didn't know better i'd say they they're motivated by cash... and thats about it.

It just doesn't take a mechanic three weeks to fix a transmission; even a fiddly tiptronic.

Apparantly, a solenoid has been changed, and that did absolutely nothing.

Jeez. I might be able to drive this car sometime before christmas.

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Hey, bringing this post back!

The cars been in the shop still. Its been to three different mechanics and is now at a specialists; because neither of the first two could figure out what the hell was wrong.

If anyone has been down and got a car from power road automotive in Dandenong; and met the boys there; let us know your thoughts. If i didn't know better i'd say they they're motivated by cash... and thats about it.

It just doesn't take a mechanic three weeks to fix a transmission; even a fiddly tiptronic.

Apparantly, a solenoid has been changed, and that did absolutely nothing.

Jeez. I might be able to drive this car sometime before christmas.

They probably changed the wrong one of the pair :) It may be even something as simple as the guys mentioned. The R34's do have a setting that keeps the car out of 4th during warmup. Not sure if it's line pressure triggered or transmission fluid temp related (cooler is part of the radiator) but sounds like it could have a faulty feedback and always thinks it's warming up.

They should have been able to rip the fault code directly from the car using the transmission diagnostic test (hopefully they did that)

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my car on cold start up in tip tronic mode does not shift to 4th, i notice once it gets up to operating temp it shifts fine. maybe its some kind of factory setting... i assume...i havent tried going faster when cold and changing after 80km/h thou...

Correct it's a factory setting.

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