Re: (E30)85 318i :NO Forward gears

[Henri Baccouche <henrib@xxxxxxxxx>]

Short answer......after 16 years and 100K+ miles  all transmissions will
have significant wear. The passage of time is also as wearing as mileage.
If you got 100-150K miles,  you got your money's worth.

Some transmissions get more mileage eventhough they are operating
outside of the wear tolerance  specification........

Henrir

"Cedric L. Haynes" wrote:

> My car burns rubber in reverse but when I put the selector lever into "D"
> no go.same with 3,2,1 It started of as sort of weird scraping metal against
> metal sound  when the tranny shifted from 3 to overdrive on the highway.
> After about two weeks I finally changed the tranny fluid and filter slowly
> the forward gears got worse. Now, they don't work at all.
> I don't remember what type of transmission fluid I put in  because it was
> about 2 months ago. I went into a local Autozone and asked for a filter and
> the guy brought it out and then mentioned that I'll need to change the
> tranny fluid also. I think he brought back about 3-4 quarts. Next time I'll
> just take my car to a good tech and have them deal with it! As you can see,
> I may have destroyed my transmission. Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Ced
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