Re: Advice needed regarding 156 Selespeed....

"Zathras" <webnewsgroup@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:13:27 -0000, "GT"
> <ContactGT_remove_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>But if it works in 'city' mode (whatever that is), then it sounds like a
>>software problem,
>
> I'd be surprised at a software problem like that being on a year 2000
> car and left like that. If it were fixable *software*, wouldn't it
> have been fixed years ago?

Well, if they spotted it or could be bothered. Its just the fact that it 
[the gearbox] works when you switch the software into a different mode
just 
sounded suspiciously like a software error to me, rather than a mechanical

breakdown (but then I am a software engineer, not a car mechanic!!).

Perhaps it has been fixed, but not rolled out to this particular car? We 
don't know where it was serviced.


> I would not want to hold any glimmer of hope up to the OP and have
> that on my conscience. If it weren't a *Selespeed* I'd agree with you.

Absolutely!. I wouldn't want to buy a car that doesn't change out of
second 
gear either!