# 1994 Marquis

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/1994-marquis/1612>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1994-marquis/1612 "2007-07-12T14:57:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![heleni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@heleni](https://community.cartalk.com/u/heleni)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1994-marquis/1612/1 "2007-07-12T14:57:34Z")

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Car problem  
  
 \>  
  
 \> I own a 1994 Mercury Grand Marquis  
  
 \>with only about 45,000 miles on it! This  
  
 \>vehicle is driven only in winter in Arizona  
  
 \>when I choose to fly there to escape our  
  
 \>Minnesota snowy climate.  
  
 \>  
  
 \> For the last few winters, when the car  
  
 \>shifts there is a jerk, or a hesitation in  
  
 \>the motor. This happens often, but not all  
  
 \>the time and it seemed to be getting  
  
 \>worse. I took it to a man who is  
  
 \>supposed to be an expert on transmissions  
  
 \>to see if there was a problem. He sent me  
  
 \>to an auto service shop next-door where  
  
 \>they gave it a “complete tune-up”. This  
  
 \>did not solve the problem. When it was  
  
 \>driven in a higher altitude the jerk seemed  
  
 \>to be quite a bit worse although it gave no  
  
 \>other trouble on that trip. Do you think  
  
 \>he was just giving some business to his  
  
 \>friend next-door before he started fixing a  
  
 \>transmission problem for me?  
  
 \>  
  
 \> I am 80 years old and I do not want to  
  
 \>drive a car out of town that may get  
  
 \>stalled.  
  
 \>  
  
 \> Any help you can give me will be  
  
 \>greatly appreciated.  
  
 \>  
  
 \>  
  
 \>

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**Author:** ![Beadsandbeads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@Beadsandbeads](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Beadsandbeads)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/1994-marquis/1612/2 "2007-07-14T03:08:47Z")

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Since you seem to be getting no action here try posting at [www.crownvic.net](http://www.crownvic.net). It would be difficult for me to make any suggestions since I can not feel the ?jerk?. Someone certainly has checked the fluid level. Does it jerk when you both accelerate hard and at a leisurely pace? Does it jerk when you shift it manually from first to second to D?