Transmission issue
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From: Nevada
Thanks for the replies. Here is the thing, it will fix itself if I turn the car off, all the way off meaning the key has to be out of ACC mode and then restart and it shifts fine again. Lately it has been getting worse where it wont fix itself after a quick restart.
I would try to change the tranny fluid first. With the car level, only two quarts will come out. I put my car on the old school metal ramps and 3 quarts comes out. I change tranny fluid every 20k miles. Also, it could be your transmission shift control solenoids going bad when you are having funny shifting points. They could start to act up between 125-300k miles.
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I would try to change the tranny fluid first. With the car level, only two quarts will come out. I put my car on the old school metal ramps and 3 quarts comes out. I change tranny fluid every 20k miles. Also, it could be your transmission shift control solenoids going bad when you are having funny shifting points. They could start to act up between 125-300k miles.
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Well today it was shifting fine for a while then skipped 4th gear and went straight into 5th. From there on the car would reduce power when I tried to accelerate like limp mode or something.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
I had that issue on my GS300 about 4years ago, took the car to lexus replaced the trans 3-4 times still no fix and the last time i took it there after they replaced the trans , they had told me that the car needs a TB which was $1600...I told them to put my car back together and i picked it up the same day.
On my way home Bought a new battery and some gun cut , removed the tb cleaned it with some gun cut , installed the battery and it's has been 4years with no problem .
it started to do it couple weeks ago , that means my bbattery needs replacement.
Mine will bang into gears from first to second , i mean really hard. it feels like i got rear end by a truck. Something i put it in D and the car will not move i can rev it to 3k -4k rpm and it won't even move without the emergency brake lol.
it's crazy!!!
On my way home Bought a new battery and some gun cut , removed the tb cleaned it with some gun cut , installed the battery and it's has been 4years with no problem .
it started to do it couple weeks ago , that means my bbattery needs replacement.
Mine will bang into gears from first to second , i mean really hard. it feels like i got rear end by a truck. Something i put it in D and the car will not move i can rev it to 3k -4k rpm and it won't even move without the emergency brake lol.
it's crazy!!!
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I had that issue on my GS300 about 4years ago, took the car to lexus replaced the trans 3-4 times still no fix and the last time i took it there after they replaced the trans , they had told me that the car needs a TB which was $1600...I told them to put my car back together and i picked it up the same day.
On my way home Bought a new battery and some gun cut , removed the tb cleaned it with some gun cut , installed the battery and it's has been 4years with no problem .
it started to do it couple weeks ago , that means my bbattery needs replacement.
Mine will bang into gears from first to second , i mean really hard. it feels like i got rear end by a truck. Something i put it in D and the car will not move i can rev it to 3k -4k rpm and it won't even move without the emergency brake lol.
it's crazy!!!
On my way home Bought a new battery and some gun cut , removed the tb cleaned it with some gun cut , installed the battery and it's has been 4years with no problem .
it started to do it couple weeks ago , that means my bbattery needs replacement.
Mine will bang into gears from first to second , i mean really hard. it feels like i got rear end by a truck. Something i put it in D and the car will not move i can rev it to 3k -4k rpm and it won't even move without the emergency brake lol.
it's crazy!!!
The battery? really? Was your battery getting weak at all? Your the second person who said this now.
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I had that issue on my GS300 about 4years ago, took the car to lexus replaced the trans 3-4 times still no fix and the last time i took it there after they replaced the trans , they had told me that the car needs a TB which was $1600...I told them to put my car back together and i picked it up the same day.
On my way home Bought a new battery and some gun cut , removed the tb cleaned it with some gun cut , installed the battery and it's has been 4years with no problem .
it started to do it couple weeks ago , that means my bbattery needs replacement.
Mine will bang into gears from first to second , i mean really hard. it feels like i got rear end by a truck. Something i put it in D and the car will not move i can rev it to 3k -4k rpm and it won't even move without the emergency brake lol.
it's crazy!!!
On my way home Bought a new battery and some gun cut , removed the tb cleaned it with some gun cut , installed the battery and it's has been 4years with no problem .
it started to do it couple weeks ago , that means my bbattery needs replacement.
Mine will bang into gears from first to second , i mean really hard. it feels like i got rear end by a truck. Something i put it in D and the car will not move i can rev it to 3k -4k rpm and it won't even move without the emergency brake lol.
it's crazy!!!
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See, I knew more people who had this issue and got it solved by replacing the battery would chime in eventually. It appears that Lexus designed the tranny in a way that it relies on it for its shifting points. I'm getting an Optima battery to avoid this issue completely...
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