What happened to your tranny?
She finally got sexual reassignment surgery and became something very different from before. yuk yuk awacka wacka
What happened was the same thing that happens to most of them in the 350-450 mile range - you start it up after getting fuel, or in my case after a nap at a service plaza, and it won't go in gear. A few off and restarts and it would work a little bit, like it was barely in gear, but when the RPMs got anywhere close to it having to shift into second, if would just drop into neutral and stay there, forward and reverse. I got it working enough to get me out of the service plaza and just about half way down the on ramp back onto the PA Turnpike, but that's as far as it would go. Turn it off and let it set for 5 minutes and it would go in gear, but was only good for about 40 feet. Forward or reverse.
Freightliner dealer in Harrisburg tried to give me a great deal on a new one, $6400 out the door. I ended up towing it home on a Uhaul dolly behind a 10-foot Uhaul box truck. The Sprinter is about 4 inches too wide, and 2000 pounds too heavy for those dollies, and of course that little box truck was really put to the test. It may very well need a new transmission at this point, too.
It was pretty much all mountains from Harrisburg, through Maryland, down through West Virginia and Kentucky, and finally on down to home. About 850 miles of white knuckle fun.
The Silverstar transmission totaled $2800 including $200 shipping and installation labor.
Did you drive it before resetting the adaptives? Was it shifting differently than after the reset? I wonder what would happen if I reset them now. Not going to try it probably.
No, I didn't try and drive it before resetting the adaptives. My mechanic was going to get the tool from the local Chrysler dealer to reset it, and they had the tool, but not the module for the Sprinters. My Sprinter dealer had the tool, but they're half an hour away and I'd have had to drive it up there to get it reset. DAD to the rescue.
It definitely shifted differently, because the computer didn't know squat after the reset. It had to relearn everything. It was really noisy at first, massive rumble-strip noise for the first few shifts, especially 2-3 and 3-4, but that went away quickly, and pretty much disappeared after a couple of days.
The initial test drive after the reset wasn't exactly the ideal test drive, wrong type of road and too much traffic. But it seemed to work. The next day, a Saturday, I took it out to a nice divided four-lane with wide shoulders and very little traffic, and reset the adaptives again and then did a proper test drive to have it learn to shift at the correct RPMs, as well as do the recommended five coast-to-stops where it would downshift properly and learn all that. Been running fine ever since.
You could certainly reset the adaptives, and you might want to if it's been shifting kinda goofy for a long time (years), but there's really no reason to reset it other than if it was badly learned in the first place and never really adapted.
