![]() ![]() ![]() With foot on the brake, move the transmission between park and lowest gear slowly – 3 times. Take battery terminals off and leave off for at least a few hours to completely drain charge from any capacitors.So, to give your car the best chance of smoother gear changes, do this process exactly: It will work for many automatic transmissions, but certainly not all of them, so please do your research. They require various procedures be done before and after to determine the steps of the process including depressing of brake pedal 3 times and other weird stuff. Some cars, like Mercedes Benz have a much more cryptic process than the more generic one detailed below. Probably not though, so check online forums. There is a process you should try which is known as resetting the part of the car’s computer which governs the running of the gears.Ĭheck your car’s service book and/or instruction manual. This sometimes happens when the car has been driven unusually for a period of time (hard or soft) or when the battery has been changed and/or flat. It gets forgotten about until something goes wrong.Īnd the fixes can usually be quite expensive – especially if you need to get it serviced or rebuilt at as transmission specialist.īut after you have done the preventative maintenance like flushing the fluid and changing the filter, sometimes it is true to the gear change timing can get jerky, or out of sync. Maintenance of automatic transmissions can be fiddly and is usually ignored based on the experience I have seen in a lot of used cars. Resetting Automatic Transmission Control Moduleĭid you read my last post about automatic transmission maintenance you can try? ![]()
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