Re: A/T skipping 1st gear

Dabbler wrote:
> ...I still
> wonder if the short drive (about 3 miles) that took me to get the
> crippled car home caused any other damage in the A/T. Since the lower
> gears did not engage...

The usual default gears when the transmission computer goes into impaired 
operation mode are second and fourth. You start out in second and,
skipping 
third, go to fourth.

> When I got home I could even smell a slight burn odor which
> I figured must have been caused by the friction from the clutch pads.

It's unlikely that you smelled something from the transmission. The 
transmission is sealed. The only possible opening is the dipstick tube.

Pull out the transmission dipstick. The fluid should be pink and not smell

burnt.

> Am I perhaps too concerned here?

Yes.
-- 
Chuck