Well, almost 266,000 miles on original everything. My headlights are date coded 01/00.
I decided to take an unplanned trip up the interstate this afternoon. A few years ago, if the weather was really hot - my transaxle light would come on and flash. I ended up doing a filter change and that seemed to take care of things.
At 30 degrees today - it came back on.
Just like before - I pulled over, shut it off, checked the fluid, started it back up - it never came back on. Fluid was in-between the cross hatching, still is pink, but is starting to darken slightly.
Car shifts and drives fine.
I spoke to a very good Ford mechanic friend of mine. He thinks torque converter issue. He told me to hold it steady on the interstate at 60 MPH, barely tap the brake, and see if the rpm's go up and then back down. Mine did - he said if they didn't, the torque converter isn't locking up correctly.
I pulled into a local O'Reilly's (I work for the same company) and used their BOSCH scanner. It pulled two codes (took me forever to find them with no check engine light on)
1. P0602 - PCM programming malfunction
2. P0701 - Torque converter clutch solenoid circuit performance or stuck off.
I just drove back home 125 miles - slower than normal. Performed fine. Car drives well. I've been keeping it in 'semi retirement' since this light would come on every once in awhile starting back 4 or 5 years ago. I try not to run it hard on the interstates in the summer. If I have to take a long trip - I rent a car.
I have serviced the transmission semi-regularly. Not as much as I should, but three or four times over the life of the vehicle.
The last trans service was just over 200k - I was told there was very little sediment in the bottom of the pan, and the car looked like one that had 100,000 miles less than it actually had.
What are your thoughts? I of course am scared to service it with such high mileage. Is a torque converter replacement warranted? Would the programming code and TCC code be related?
Thanks for all your awesome help.
I decided to take an unplanned trip up the interstate this afternoon. A few years ago, if the weather was really hot - my transaxle light would come on and flash. I ended up doing a filter change and that seemed to take care of things.
At 30 degrees today - it came back on.
Just like before - I pulled over, shut it off, checked the fluid, started it back up - it never came back on. Fluid was in-between the cross hatching, still is pink, but is starting to darken slightly.
Car shifts and drives fine.
I spoke to a very good Ford mechanic friend of mine. He thinks torque converter issue. He told me to hold it steady on the interstate at 60 MPH, barely tap the brake, and see if the rpm's go up and then back down. Mine did - he said if they didn't, the torque converter isn't locking up correctly.
I pulled into a local O'Reilly's (I work for the same company) and used their BOSCH scanner. It pulled two codes (took me forever to find them with no check engine light on)
1. P0602 - PCM programming malfunction
2. P0701 - Torque converter clutch solenoid circuit performance or stuck off.
I just drove back home 125 miles - slower than normal. Performed fine. Car drives well. I've been keeping it in 'semi retirement' since this light would come on every once in awhile starting back 4 or 5 years ago. I try not to run it hard on the interstates in the summer. If I have to take a long trip - I rent a car.
I have serviced the transmission semi-regularly. Not as much as I should, but three or four times over the life of the vehicle.
The last trans service was just over 200k - I was told there was very little sediment in the bottom of the pan, and the car looked like one that had 100,000 miles less than it actually had.
What are your thoughts? I of course am scared to service it with such high mileage. Is a torque converter replacement warranted? Would the programming code and TCC code be related?
Thanks for all your awesome help.