I've had a couple instances like that with my outback. the outback's
trans has some really hard shocks during upshifts. twice from the
dealer: no fault found.
i took a movie with the digcam to document it and emailed them to the
service manager. now they get it....
At 04-14-2010 at 22:14, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Peter J.
Thomas's keyboard and said:
>>
>I had a friend who had a new car. One morning it would not start.
>Called the dealership and the dealership had it towed to the
>shop. The mechanics could not find any fault and gave the car back
>to the owner.
>Next morning same thing, no starty. Another tow and another
>"nothing's wrong". Next morning, again no starty. This time he
>called owner of the dealership, I believe at home. The owner,
>service manager and a mechanic came to the car and saw first hand it
>would not start. Turns out dust from the clutch was landing on an
>optical sensor that detects rotation in the flywheel. The computer
>would not turn on the gas pump until it detected the flywheel was
>turning. Towing the car to the dealship on bumpy rural roads shook
>the dust off of the sensor.
Cheers!
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