Hey everyone, I just bought a 1999 Contour SVT with about 60k miles (100k kms). I�ve had it about a week, today I took it into my local dealer and had them change the tranny fluid to the synthetic stuff with some friction modifier. It shifts a bit better but still is very hard to get into first and reverse from a stop.
Anyway, about an hour after I picked up the car from the dealer I was driving and took a very hard left hand turn under acceleration and the car just died in mid turn! Now I read something somewhere about this being a common problem but I cannot locate the information now�
BUT, that is not all! I parked the car for about an hour then went out again and was going up a hill at about 80kph, in a straight line, and the car just died again! That�s right, it just died at about 80kph!
When it stalls the oil and check engine lights come on (of course) and it will start up again almost immediately afterwards�
Hopefully someone can help me out� did the dealer mess up something� could it somehow be related to the tranny�help!
