Stranded on the highway....for the first time ever

[Kalevera]

Yup - Brett told me to take it to Bob Shields at Bavarian Auto Service in Rock Hill, SC...about 45 min away from my house in NC.

Hopefully, I can get it in tomorrow. After not having use of the car for ~7 days due to my seat restoration project, it's utterly annoying that, after two days of being back on the road, it's ****ed up again. I hate automatic transmissions

best, whit

[emw525E34]

Whit,

Not just auto tranny had this problem. My E34 sedan with auto could limp home when I had a similar situation 2 years back. It since had a tranny rebuild good as new and done over 15 track days of "abuse".

My recently acquired E34 Touring manual was also stranded on a highway about 2 miles from home as it "lost" a slave cylinder. Downshifted from 4th to 3rd and got stuck on 3rd. Zero clutch feel. Worse of all, it was 9 am on a friday morning and I was bringing the kids to school field trip. Waited 1 hour for the flatbed Loaded up the car , then accompany that to my regular workshop. Had to miss the school field trip and make that up to the kids.

Things like this happens.

[Kalevera]

Wow...I wouldn't even go near a track with my car's behavior since it received the ZF reman 4hp-22 in January

That stinks about the slave cylinder. Still, I wish I had a manual -- I could've probably fixed or jerry-rigged an issue like that on the side of the road, versus the auto (which now looks like will cost me a 45 minute tow and maybe more)...repair of which, beyond a few minor things, is beyond me.

By the way: don't let anybody use a non-rollback for this car I just got off the phone with Bob Shields and explained that the thing no longer stays in Park. He thinks the towing co many owe me a new transmission. (and yes, I told AAA to send a rollback because the car REQUIRES one -- they didn't listen to me -- and the tow truck driver decided to "risk it" after calling his boss).

best, whit