caravelle dal
15-02-2008, 11:01 AM
I bought my 9 seater LWB '03 2.5 tdi Caravelle last May, it wasn't until a short while after buying it i began to notice some shuddering at certain speed (a whole van shudder). I noticed that it would shudder at 1,600 rpm whilst in 4th gear. In November i noticed another problem, on changing from 1st to 2nd it would jump out of gear then back into 2nd with a bump. I now decided to get it checked out at an automatic gearbox specialist garage but before hand it needed a full service so that the warrenty i got with the van was valid. Having got this done it seemed to ease the two problems with the gearbox but the faults hadn't gone away. I took it to the gearbox specialist garage whome then informed me that the warrenty didn't cover the parts that needed to be replaced as it was wear and tare ( some rings in the box/clutch which was causing it to slip). They didn't experience any shuddering whilst taking it out on a test drive as it was in an urban area and the van would hardly get into 4th gear! They stripped and rebuilt the gearbox.
On getting the van back after nearly three weeks the gears were perfoming alot better , no slipping but the shudder was still there on the 4th gear. It progressivly got worse, i had now started taxi-ing and was clocking up the miles.
On changing from 3rd to 4th the revs would drop to 1600rpm and the shudder would shake the van until i gave it more gas for it to change down to 3rd again.
when the engine isn't under load in 4th and i only gently press the gas it seems okay. I took it back to the garage and told them what was happening and aswell as the shudder it was slipping in 2nd again from time to time, they gave it the 500 mile check and told me give it more time to settle!
Two days ago i took it to another garage, the mechanic checked the van over as i thought i may have an ecu issue, he told me that the engine was sound and that the problem was definitely with the gearbox (he suggested i ask them if they reset the ecu adaptations).
The gear box is still under thier warrenty for 12 months or 6000 miles, it's going back to them on 18/02/08 to looked at, could anybody shed some light on what may be happening?????
On getting the van back after nearly three weeks the gears were perfoming alot better , no slipping but the shudder was still there on the 4th gear. It progressivly got worse, i had now started taxi-ing and was clocking up the miles.
On changing from 3rd to 4th the revs would drop to 1600rpm and the shudder would shake the van until i gave it more gas for it to change down to 3rd again.
when the engine isn't under load in 4th and i only gently press the gas it seems okay. I took it back to the garage and told them what was happening and aswell as the shudder it was slipping in 2nd again from time to time, they gave it the 500 mile check and told me give it more time to settle!
Two days ago i took it to another garage, the mechanic checked the van over as i thought i may have an ecu issue, he told me that the engine was sound and that the problem was definitely with the gearbox (he suggested i ask them if they reset the ecu adaptations).
The gear box is still under thier warrenty for 12 months or 6000 miles, it's going back to them on 18/02/08 to looked at, could anybody shed some light on what may be happening?????