Thanks...I'll bring allthis stuff to the dealer's attention when I go in for the next transmission. Maybe it'll save everybody a lot of grief.
The funniest thing about this is that the "lockout" happens only when the car has been brought to a full stop, at a traffic light, for instance. If I'm approaching a really slow corner (or doing a roll-through at a stop sign!), and shift down from second to first while in motion, it has never failed to slip into first as smoothly as can be. Go figure.
A fellow SVT owner here in Ottawa with exactly the same problem, (and exactly the same number of transmissions), has talked to an SVT tech at a dealer in Toronto who says his first suspicions would be the clutch release plate or the slave cylinder.
oh well.
