I have not been on CEG in a long time... I have been working so much and I have been having some relationship problums with my friend that is a girl. My contour is running good however my car got T boned in my girlfriends driveway! Her brothers dumb A#$ friends! Its just the rear drivers door and I was pissed! Then We went camping about two months ago and someone side swiped the passenger side! Man o Man, my ride has a good about of body damage now! The tranny started to grind when im really pushing it into third! Only 82K! How are you guys doing?

I feel your pain man.

Things are well. Don't worry about the body damage. Take care of the tranny first.

Try Ford Honey tranny fluid change.
http://www.contour.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=tranny&Number=960062&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1

I'm new here and still in that "infatuation" stage with my CSVT.

Just remember back to that happy place...

~ harp strumming sounds and mist ~

ahhhhh....the first day you picked it up...the first time you washed it....ahhhh






OK! snap!snap! Back to reality!

Feel better now?

Let me tell you guys, When I picked up my first Gen Contour I knew NOTHING about the car at all. All I knew was that It was not a 1990 toyota corrola DX silver with a manual tranny and a million miles. Which I had two of... Same color interior tranny everything.. Haha! Well I found my contour through autotrader test drove it at night. Bought it the next day. It was really clean but I topped it off with my mods. Now its just like aaaaaahhhh! What happened?

"The tranny started to grind when im really pushing it into third! Only 82K!"

Age is also a factor. Car is 11 - 12 years old and rubber seals and other parts wear with age.