Re: A/T skipping 1st gear

"Charles" <electrochuckREMOVE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.

I wish I had known that. My usual habit is to set the gear into 3rd when 
I am in the city with max. 35 MPH speed limit. I think that's what I was 
doing then. Thanks for this info anyway. It might come handy one day.

> 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.

I checked and it still looks pink w/o any burnt smell.

>> Am I perhaps too concerned here?
>
> Yes.

Good! :-)

DB