ok well my sister and her boyfriend were driving down to our house last night for x-mas. they called us and said the car started like jolting kinda harsh, neither one of them knows anything about cars so i was asking them questions to try to figure it out. well i told him to start it and try to drive a couple feet, it started fine and drove for a couple feet then made a grinding sound and he said thats the sound it made right before they stopped. this morning my sister said AAA told them it had little to no tranny fluid, my sister said it smells burnt.

so my question is if they stopped pretty much imediately do you think just refilling it with the correct fluid would make it salvageable or will they need to get it repaired/replaced? TIA

 

refil with fluid. if no workie, get another auto tranny. you can find one from import auto salvage or somthnig like that.

auto civic transmission = ghey

 

hahha yea i dont prefer auto either. but i mean if they were driving for only about 20 seconds after it made the jolting and sound, they just refilled it and bought a couple extra quarts and theyre gunna see if it drives good now. but thanks.

 

perfect reason for an auto to manual conversion. Its probably cheaper than the replacement auto tranny.

 

ok man look its my sisters car, she dont want a manual, lol.