mate of mine has a scorpio and is having gearbox problems, (auto car), he has just cleaned his maf and now the gears dont change properly, sometimes it hangs on to them too long and sometimes it goes into second when he stops and then has to pll away in second,then it quickly jumps into first then back into second again

 

sometimes the car is fine and runs great

 

any ideas

My mum had a problem with her cougar..... It was switching gears randomly sometimes on the motorway it would put it in second @ 70mph and the revs would go straight up to the limiter :shock:

 

We took it to Ford and they put it on the diagnostics machine and said it was a faulty Transmission Range Sensor.

 

The part was not very expensive and it fixed it instantly! Job done!

hmmm, wonder if it is the same thing, he says sometimes it revs itself

 

will let him know

Maf!-look on scorpio online mate,common apparently!:smash:

And my opinion......

 

.....it's a Ford Scorpio; they were always crap and always will be.

 

I bought a 1 year old one back in 1993 (less than 10k miles) and it remains, without doubt, the worst car I ever had.

 

The damn thing went wrong almost weekly and in the 3 months I owned it, it must have spent 2 in the Ford dealers!

 

Richard:nono:

And on the other side of the coin, my old man always had 'Granny's'

I can't remember one he had bother with,the Scorpio saloon was the best tho'!

my dads granny was good, apart from the floor in the back falling out:rofl:

They are old rot boxes, but I've always liked the look of the Granada Scorpio Cosworth saloons...but I'd sooner have a Carlton GSi.

Whooaaaaaaaaaaaa there fellas, i know exactly what it could be, failed on every single one of the 7 scorpios i've owned in my time.

 

Try changing the speed sensor held on by one bolt on the mt75 gearbox on the left hand side. Dead easy to do, the gears wear down and you lose 3-4th gear and the gears go clunky.

 

I've bought three of them where they thought the gearbox was dead and it was this problem.

 

£35 from ford brand new or a fiver from the scrappy

 

If it's not that and it keeps slipping then it is the box, they usually go around 100k if they've been treated hard

I know what it is! The car is shite and needs pushing off a cliff! Here endeth the Duff lesson in shitty ford-mobiles :D

cheers guys

np buddy :D

 

I know what it is! The car is shite and needs pushing off a cliff! Here endeth the Duff lesson in shitty ford-mobiles :D

 

Oi, i'll have you know there's nowt wrong with scorpios, ugly as **** but as a day to day drive commuting 70+ miles a day it's brill for a grand :D :hyper:

 

Ye. Granadas are ace old cars, i have had loads, well built and very reliable, even the 24v cossie ones, and were years ahead of there time for refinement, i have had quite a few up around the 300,000mile mark and still going strong.

 

Wheel arches and the auto boxes were the let down, but a lot less faults than most cars. And as said, speed sensor on nearside of the box is the most likely problem or the wiring to it.

What was the verdict then stella? Were we right with the speed sensor?

aint seen him yet, will see him on monday and he will let me know

Cool, hopefully that's all it'll be buddy