Sorry for the delay peeps... It has been a LOOOONG day. It got worse. I never actually made it to the dealer. I was running some errands this afternoon and my Taurus dumped its slushbox. If you remember about a year ago I had a leak in my gasket. I used some leak stop and it fixed it. Checked the fluid level every couple weeks... beautiful. Until today. I was stuck in traffic and I think I somehow sprung a leak in my one of the transmission gaskets again. I was driving in some extremely hot bumper to bumper traffic. I noticed every time I turned the trans would shudder when it would shift like last year. By the time I got to an Auto Zone I was having some serious slippage issues into first and second. Mind you this is a span of only 20 minutes. Stopped at AutoZone and checked the trans fluid... low-ish. Look underneath the car, dripping trans fluid. Bottle of leak stop and a half bottle of trans fluid later and I was back on the road, with the symptoms subdued. About 3 miles from home the transmission check light comes on for the first time ever (even with the problems last year). Stop. Check fluid. Seems ok, but getting low. Fill with extra trans fluid. Good to go. NO. As soon as I pull back out it won't sit in first or second gear, just kinda bounces in and out of gear until it gets to third, and then it goes away. I was already a mile from home so I just limped it back.
I just give up....
