2001 Jimny Auto (Santana) - Transmission Failure/Problems
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:22 pm
The car is petrol, convertable Jimny, with G13 engine.
Car suddenly started making, a kind of slipping screeching noise, like a fan belt squeal noise but coming from the transmission.
Once I tried to drive it, it wouldn't engage gears in D.
At times it started to creep forward and sustain some travel for about 3-5 mins, until it gave up and wouldn't select a gear again.
Turning off and on again, the car wouldn't move at all, not in D, R, or 1, 2.
Leaving it sat for about 30 mins and trying again lets it creep for a short distance again but that's all.
It's been with a local garage that just does tyre and exhaust work for a couple of weeks, so I'm trying to find someone that can look at it and find out what the problem is, but seems to be rare and expensive trying to get someone to work on an auto.
The engine light is on, and it's showing a P0730 fault, it was also showing two gear ration errors but didn't get the codes for them.
Does anyone have any idea what is likely the fault, the garage said they think it's the torque converter needs replaced?
Transmission fluid was drained and replaced, as well as a rocker cover gasket replacement when we got the car in December last year, and is still pretty high. The engine had ahead gasket replacement in Feb too. (Never expected a Jimny to be such a money pit.)
I had it in a the nearest Suzuki dealership for an engine light a few months before, where there were a couple of errors, and they said that these were due to sensor connection issues (P0741), and they were for the transmission, so I'm wondering if they are related issues. If the dealership might have seen this as a potential for later issues?
Can anyone help or suggest further actions that might help?
Thanks
Will
Car suddenly started making, a kind of slipping screeching noise, like a fan belt squeal noise but coming from the transmission.
Once I tried to drive it, it wouldn't engage gears in D.
At times it started to creep forward and sustain some travel for about 3-5 mins, until it gave up and wouldn't select a gear again.
Turning off and on again, the car wouldn't move at all, not in D, R, or 1, 2.
Leaving it sat for about 30 mins and trying again lets it creep for a short distance again but that's all.
It's been with a local garage that just does tyre and exhaust work for a couple of weeks, so I'm trying to find someone that can look at it and find out what the problem is, but seems to be rare and expensive trying to get someone to work on an auto.
The engine light is on, and it's showing a P0730 fault, it was also showing two gear ration errors but didn't get the codes for them.
Does anyone have any idea what is likely the fault, the garage said they think it's the torque converter needs replaced?
Transmission fluid was drained and replaced, as well as a rocker cover gasket replacement when we got the car in December last year, and is still pretty high. The engine had ahead gasket replacement in Feb too. (Never expected a Jimny to be such a money pit.)
I had it in a the nearest Suzuki dealership for an engine light a few months before, where there were a couple of errors, and they said that these were due to sensor connection issues (P0741), and they were for the transmission, so I'm wondering if they are related issues. If the dealership might have seen this as a potential for later issues?
Can anyone help or suggest further actions that might help?
Thanks
Will