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The " oil cooker " strikes again. I have calmed down by now. Must admit are feeling a bit dissapointed. Recently cooked my automatic gearbox oil. Anyway dilemma has been rectified. The service technician dumped the gearbox oil and pumped in some new oil.
:worry: Must confess that it is my fault. Big Chris has indicated that our ford SUVS are only designed and engineered for mild offroad use. Admittedly my offroad exploring must have been excessive, so accordingly the oil virtually cooked and stressed out the tranny. It all began on one of those signposted ' Dry weather road only' tracks out in the " Barossa valley" wine region. The overdrive light symbol on dash began flashing.
:worry: Oh! no . What's the problem this time?
I knew by instinct it was related to the gearbox. So for about six kilometres the ' Overdrive' warning light flashed and then it stayed off. Travelled into adelaide so that i could use a pressure washer. Washed the excess red, black and clay soil off. When driving home the cruise control was set to 100kmh on the freeway. The whole car from front through to rear end immediately began shuddering. Basically it had a very severe shake. :censor: :cuss: :wall: :rant:
In my owners handbook, there is a reference that if the overdrive light blinks there is possibly a transmission problem. The mechanic ( service tech) read the ecu with a lappy to see what code was presented. Yes there was a gearbox problem as in the oil became cooked. Totally perished in quality. So now i have new tranny oil. The escape seems to perform quite competently at the moment.
Feeling a bit disgruntled that an issue occurred on a new car. My softroader only has about 74,000 kms clocked up. By the same token it would have been self induced, because the mudding was a bit hard core. The mechanics have even advised that it was only designed for mild exploring.
Yes! it was quite frightening feeling the whole car shaking from back to front. My offroad safari adventures have been discontinued. :shrug:
:worry: Must confess that it is my fault. Big Chris has indicated that our ford SUVS are only designed and engineered for mild offroad use. Admittedly my offroad exploring must have been excessive, so accordingly the oil virtually cooked and stressed out the tranny. It all began on one of those signposted ' Dry weather road only' tracks out in the " Barossa valley" wine region. The overdrive light symbol on dash began flashing.
I knew by instinct it was related to the gearbox. So for about six kilometres the ' Overdrive' warning light flashed and then it stayed off. Travelled into adelaide so that i could use a pressure washer. Washed the excess red, black and clay soil off. When driving home the cruise control was set to 100kmh on the freeway. The whole car from front through to rear end immediately began shuddering. Basically it had a very severe shake. :censor: :cuss: :wall: :rant:
In my owners handbook, there is a reference that if the overdrive light blinks there is possibly a transmission problem. The mechanic ( service tech) read the ecu with a lappy to see what code was presented. Yes there was a gearbox problem as in the oil became cooked. Totally perished in quality. So now i have new tranny oil. The escape seems to perform quite competently at the moment.
Feeling a bit disgruntled that an issue occurred on a new car. My softroader only has about 74,000 kms clocked up. By the same token it would have been self induced, because the mudding was a bit hard core. The mechanics have even advised that it was only designed for mild exploring.
Yes! it was quite frightening feeling the whole car shaking from back to front. My offroad safari adventures have been discontinued. :shrug: