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From: [email protected] ( Joe Thielen)
Subject: Re: HELP with 89 Mitsubishi Galant GS Transmission
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Total Stranger) writes:
>Hi,
>I need your help with a problem I have with a 1989 Mitsubishi
>Galant GS transmission. The car has a 5 speed manual tranmission.
>Since the car was bought new, while shifting from 2nd to 3rd, unless
>I do it SLOWLY and carefully, it makes a "popping" or "hitting" sound.
>The dealer and Mitsubishi customer service (reached by an 800 #) say
>this is NORMAL for the car. IS IT?
>And about a year ago, at 35Kmiles, the stick shift handle got STUCK
>while attempting to put it in reverse:
> 1- The shifter would not budge. The clutch had no effect.
> 2- The front tires would not budge, even when the clutch is
> fully depressed.
> 3- If the clutch is released the engine would die.
> 4- Assuming that some gear was engaged while the shifter was
> stuck, I could not make the car move. It acted as if
> it were in Neutral(except for dying when clutch is released.)
> 5- I finally was able to release the shifter by having
> someone rock the car back and forth (less than an inch),
> while I depressed the clutch and jiggled the shifter.
> 6- The shifter acted normally after that.
>
>When this happened, I took it to the dealer, they checked the
>clutch, it was o.k. They checked the transmission, it was o.k.
>
>I had the exact problem a couple of months ago, and again last
>week. The dealer says there is nothing they can do because
>Mitsubishi (the 800 #) says they have never heard of the
>problem, and the dealer could not reproduce the problem while
>they had the car.
>In all three occurances, the car was parked head first in a garage,
>and since the front wheels were stuck, the car could not be towed
>to the dealer before releasing the shifter (hence temporarily
>solving the problem). And the dealer, and Mitsubishi, refused to
>send someone to check the car while it was stuck.
>I KNOW there is smething wrong with the transmission (shifting
>from 2nd to 3rd), and getting stuck at random, but I can't get
>the dealer to fix it. I need your help with the mechanical problems,
>and with how to handle Mitsubishi.
>All hints and suggestions are greatly appreciated, and sorry to
>bore you with the long post.
>
>Thanks,
>Rabih.
Try another dealer. Sometimes the sophistication of equipment etc is
better at one dealer than another. You may also find another dealer
willing to help you with the problem.
-- Joe