garrett

When my fiance was driving home from work last night in her 1996 GS300 she stopped at a red light. When the light turned green and she pressed the accelerator the car's check engine light came on and it would not go anywhere. The revs would go up but there was no movement from the car. When I went to meet her I turned the car off and restarted it. Put it in drive and was able to drive it back to our house with the check engine light still illuminated. It kicked once on the way and once I stopped in our driveway it did the same thing. I put it in reverse, drive, sport and low only to have the revs go up when I pressed the accelerator pedal but the car would not move.

Any thoughts about what could be the possible problem? We have had no problems with this car, ever. All services have been completed on time and there was no indication that anything was going to go wrong. It does have around 170K miles on it though so unfortunately something was bound to happen I suppose

Triple C

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Sounds like you have some serious issues. time to look for a replacement on ebay

zazzn

sounds like you don't have pressure to the converter... I bet the filter is clogged with crap or you don't have enough fluid form it leaking somewhere and can't get enough line pressure.

jroman32

A similar situation happen to me and i check every posiblle thing and had 2 mecanics look at and it came out to be the tranny,, so i replaced it and it ran fine ever since,, Good luck

Kaiser

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Stupid question, do you have enough trans fluid? You do not want to have to replace a 96-7 trans. It's an odd ball 5 speed that is like finding a unicorn used.

Fame

Having the same problem. Did you ever find. Solution??

MikeC7909

Yea I would check tranny fluid first. Then check what code your are getting off the check engine light. And before you take it to a mechanic just for them to tell you it's the transmission, try and see if you can drain the fluid yourself and take off the transmission oil pan and look for any metal debris/shavings. If you do see metal stuff in your fluid then yea, something is wrong with the transmission or torque converter. Which is were the mechanic takes over. =P