Es300 won't move
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Es300 won't move
So I have a 1998 Lexus es300. Front end was hit driver side corner. The car still drove and everything except it would over heat due to a cracked radiator but I'd make sure it never went past half way. I even moved it without a radiator and without fans a few feet back and forth when I needed to get something out of the garage. Now here is the problem the vehicle no longer moves I know the tranny is fine. The vehicle moves a little bit if I rev up to four rpm but even then it doesn't go pretty much anywhere. Could this be from not enough coolant in the car or maybe a coolant spill onto something important? So far what I've done is take apart hood latch from radiator support pull out wiring harness from radiator support. Took out the fans and radiator disconnected the head and corner lights. I don't think I touched any sensor or anything that could cause this. The only thing I can think of since I know it's not the tranny is that coolant leaked everywhere and probably caked up the alternator but I'd still really like some advice please and thank you
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I agree. Maybe the trans cooler is leaking that is built into the radiator. Trying to drive a vehicle with low tranny fluid is a bad to the tranny as driving an engine with low oil.
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The reason I believe that it can't be the transmission is because I was driving the car in and out of the driveway it was perfectly fine. I honestly didn't check the tranny fluid after the driving back and forth but before that I did and it was on level. I guess I'll check again, I'm pretty sure with low tranny fluid the car will still move it will just damage the tranny but in this case the car won't even move. My reason for believing its a leak onto the alternator is because I have a camaro that had a dead alternator car would turn on but not move out of position eventually it wouldn't turn on because it no longer charged the battery but I guess American and Japanese cars are very different. Anyway I'll check again ASAP thank you for the quick replies
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Thanks everyone I put in new fluid did a flush its working now just very strange that the car ended up with no tranny fluid. The car had fluid must have leaked out through radiator. Thanks for the help
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