2003 Oldsmobile Alero GL 2.2L transmission slip?

Wonkradar
Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:10:49 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

I just bought a 2003 Oldsmobile Alero with over 245k miles on it for super cheap, fully aware that it would have issues. It was owned previously by a driving school that did keep up with maintenance, it’s in really good condition for what I got.

I had been driving it thru the week, done a relatively long trip on Tuesday with no issues, then Thursday I’d been driving for a couple hours to go see family, and I started to feel a slip in the transmission while accelerating in lower gears. I don’t know too much about cars, just basics at this point. I pulled over and called my uncle who told me to let it cool down and had me add some ATF to it because it sounds like it was low? Which I went to O’reillys for and got the right one and did and turned around and got it home just fine with no more symptoms.
The next day, my uncle came over and checked it out, said there’s no leaks, my ATF level was fine if not a little high (I had no way to check it myself when it happened, GM made my life a little hard for a minute) but fine otherwise. So I’m trying to figure out what caused this in the first place, I know it’s early on enough in the problem that I CAN get it fixed, I just need to figure out what’s going on with it first.

Otherwise, it runs great. There was a busted vent tube on top (don’t know the name of it, but it was like a 4 inch tube on the very top closer to the passenger side) that we replaced. It doesn’t get too hot, everything looks good. Great gas mileage I just want to figure this out before it becomes TOO expensive to fix.

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