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"limp mode"



This is what I was thinking. When our 2000 did this it was just the speed sensor. There is a high and low speed snsor that tells it to shift. Replaced both and no problems since. 4 years gone by now.



Speed sensor sounds like this may be the cause.....and not that this would be an issue or a way of it going into the limp mode by the OP but I could get it to go into the limp mode by spinning the (front) wheels in slippery conditions like SNOW when I first started the car and the trans hadn't shifted yet. If it stayed in 2nd gear/limp mode then I'd have to shut the engine off and reset it, not spin the wheels until it shifted on its own.


MikeR