The art of diagnosing and repairing modern cars is a complex one, requiring a deep understanding of electronic systems and computerized controls. In this article, we'll delve into the process of troubleshooting and repair on a Ford transmission system.

A common issue with modern cars is the faulty transmission control module, which can trigger a cascade of diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs). These codes provide valuable information to technicians about the nature of the problem, allowing them to pinpoint the source of the issue. In this particular case, we're dealing with a Ford transmission system that had been experiencing problems with the power steering control module.

The technician began by erasing the DTCs and running a road test to see if any new codes would appear. They also used live data to monitor the transmission's performance, checking for faults in the injectors, torque converter, and pressure control solenoids. The results were impressive: no Faults were found in the injectors, torque converter clutch, or solenoid pressure.

As they continued the road test, the technician monitored the car's behavior, watching as it accelerated from a standstill and shifted through gears. They also checked the transmission's fluid temperature and the input chip sensor, which provided valuable information about the system's performance. The results were encouraging: no slipping was detected when accelerating or decelerating, and the transmission was shifting smoothly through its various gears.

With all DTCs cleared, the technician began to analyze the transmission's performance in more detail. They checked the injector output faults, finding that none were present. They also monitored the generator current sensor, which provided valuable information about the system's electrical output. The results were impressive: zero Faults were detected in the injectors, and the water temperature was within normal limits.

As they delved deeper into the transmission's performance, the technician checked the pressure control solenoid information on the transmission. They watched as the car shifted through its various gears, monitoring the torque converter slip and the actual versus desired values. The results were encouraging: no Faults were detected in the torque converter clutch or solenoids.

The final step was to check the transmission's range sensor input B, which provided valuable information about the system's performance. The technician monitored the frequency of the signal, confirming that it was within normal limits. With all DTCs cleared and no Faults detected, it seemed that the Ford transmission system had been successfully repaired.

In this particular case, the third attempt at repair proved to be successful. The technicians had reprogrammed the software and replaced various components, including the torque converter chains and valve bodies. As a result, the transmission was shifting smoothly through its gears, with no signs of slipping or other problems. With only 2,000 miles left on the warranty, it seemed that this repair job would last.

The moral of the story is clear: while buying a new car can be exciting, it's often not worth it when it first comes out. Instead, wait until later models are released, and take advantage of any updates or improvements that may have been made to the system. In this case, the Ford transmission system seemed to have benefited from being updated with newer software, which has resulted in a smoother and more efficient shifting experience.

As we look to the future, it's clear that modern cars will continue to rely on complex electronic systems and computerized controls. However, by taking the time to troubleshoot and repair these systems properly, technicians can provide their customers with top-notch service and ensure that their vehicles run smoothly for years to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enfather again well this is a Tennessee car so you can see it's clean it's not rotten away so you don't have to worry about rust on the frame or anything you got a four liter single overhead cam V6 engine it's actually a very reliable engine this one's got 160 000 miles doesn't burn any oil these are great engines because there's no turbos on them they're normally fuel injected so they don't have problems with any carbon buildup and it's pretty well set up when they do brake for replacing Parts the problem with these forwards of course is that this isn't a plain old rear wheel drive one which is simpler this you can see you can have Auto 4x4 High 4x4 low the weakest thing is the four-wheel drive system it costs more it weighs more and of course it makes these things gas Hawks he says he probably averages about 16 in this thing if you don't need a four-wheel drive all-wheel drive vehicle my advice is don't buy it especially if you're buying an older one now he's put 80 3000 miles on it he's got his 10 Grands who are tired of it but let's say you're gonna buy this vehicle today I would try to talk you out of it it's going to be super expensive when it finally goes out it's probably going out a little now we're going to check it with a scan tool now on the other hand if you're a mechanic like me you can find a lot of good looking ones like these in the South that don't move under their own power and you can pick them up for four or five hundred bucks then you can put the transmission transfer case in yourself if you're a Riverboat Gambler you like rolling a dice try one in a junkyard but really the age of this they're pretty worn too you're better off getting remanufactured units if you're willing to spend that kind of money go right ahead consider what a new 4x4 cost hey you got to put four or five grand in one that you picked up for 500 bucks that's not a bad deal but if you're the type of person that's looking for something you're going to buy used and you want to drive the family around it I'd stay away from one of these four by fours with 106 thousand miles on them now let's start it up Star Trek and as you can hear and see the engines on it smooth doesn't make too much noise these are excellent engines it's the transmissions on these all-wheel drive ones that have the problems now he's already replaced the Hub on this side I'm assuming this one's probably going to need replacing probably had some slippage but the computer and look at the data first and while it's looking up stuff you can see it's a work truck he's got all the stuff in here AC gauges you name it you can use these for a work truck now he actually does use the four-wheel drive in his business and stuff when it snows doesn't sell it much round it does once in a while but mainly for mud and goop and rain and all that stuff it does work well just realize with the forge it has a limited lifespan just looked up you just got everything Explorer the 2v4 liter automatic so up it comes diagnosis and here we go with an auto scan and we're scanner on you see he's not lying it just turned 160 000 miles on it and really doesn't look that bad of course four so the radio's broken but on the plus side the air conditioner still works and yes it does have a sunroof and now you can see there's a few faults here so we're going to go through them all just low we don't care about occupant classification system we don't care about that either so we'll turn it off we'll turn it back on and we'll erase that stupid code that's got a gem module General electrical module some codes there they might lead to something there's four arms double go in the fourth they'll get wacko Electronics up you can see there's a whole bunch of them but we really don't care lamp headlamp input circuit short to ground okay so what he's done is he's replaced the headlamps with the LEDs and that's why he has all these headlamp codes because it confuses the system now they work the warning light comes up on the dash but it's Tennessee nobody does any kind of inspections we don't care the headlights work but for those of you living someplace where they check all that crap realize you can't just replace stuff with LEDs you got to make sure you have the right ballast resistors all kinds of other crap so you know if your headlights work okay my advice in that case is leave them alone if you got a Ford not a Toyota they don't care you just put the LEDs without resistors away they go these are a little more particular so and the last one is satellite audio digital receiver system considering that the radio doesn't even work you know I don't think you're going to Care much about that but we'll see what it says Just for kicks ECU electronic control unit internal fault an electronic control unit internal fault okay well really since it's for the radio system we really don't care what he's curious about is what kind of shape the powertrains in so we want to look at the live damage there's all the live data we'll start looking at it so far everything's looking pretty good we can see the output shaft data put it in gear now you can see it's zero because you're wearing gear and it's not spinning anymore we put it in park it'll start spinning again so we just we know that debt is being applied and it's real data you see there's no misfires the fuel ride pressure 370 364 368.45 so it's real close what it's commanding and what it's getting so even the fuel pump's in excellent shape there's a fuel pump percentage okay it's running at 24 now if we rub it up of course it'll go higher injectors are fine they got no Faults it's a four liter engine and a mass airflow sensor is 3.95 92 that's the right spot on that's working fine so the module is fine 14.21 and you can see in the transmission the output shaft speed failure mode and has no Faults pressure control modules on the transmission no fault gives you the pressure shifts on the lights on it shows there's no Faults with the shift solenoids either and the torque converter unlocking due to slipping there's no Faults in that so it is slipping it's not slipping bad but what we're going to do here is we're going to put down torque converter data and we're going to record it and here we go still handles decently when he's worried about his transformation so the liftgate jar is open because he got something out of trunk didn't close it so you can't blame the truck on that right it's way too hot in here the heat works we'll turn that off now I can feel a slight slippage taken off there but we'll go to our little drag strip and here we go still got plenty of pulling power the engines looking fine the isn't horrible I can feel a little slippage but let's see what it does when it's under a full low there's nobody behind us so here we go all right still tights off pretty good full load decent shift another decent ship we'll let go downshifts very smoothly no jerking yet now we'll see what passing gear goes like before smooth still working pretty good all-in-onement before things rattle as they age but hey it's still running pretty good well Bonnie and Clyde days to steal Fords all the time because they said they were nice fast getaway cars and hey this thing get up and go up and go with 160 000 miles now I notice when I turn it hard here I can feel a little slippage in the right front now he's changed the Hub on the left front so he should change the Hub on the right front but when you're going straight you don't feel any of that now as I said earlier if this had been a conventional two-wheel drive Explorer with just rear-wheel drive and not the all-wheel drive system I would tell somebody if they're going to buy this vehicle go ahead and buy it because there's no codes in the transmission and no problems but with that transfer case I'd be real leery about buying one of these things used in an all-wheel drive version so we'll go back in time here we'll start looking at the information as it plays back and all of that is black it's all normal it didn't slip much at all 160 000 miles now he's put 80 of them on he's getting his money's worth he did have to change that Hub and eventually have to change the one on the other side transmissions and slipping too much you saw on the road test up shift downshift the engine runs like a top now if I had a customer looking to buy this thing I would try to talk them away find one with the four wheel all-wheel drive system on it because that will eventually break and cost a fortune to fix if this headband just the rear wheel drive one I would have put hands down buy it at a good price because it's in excellent shape yeah the radio doesn't work who cares you can put another radio in it got stupid communication codes we don't care about that either with the four-wheel drive system I would be exceptionally leery if I were you buying one with a 160 000 miles unless they had information that the transfer case has been replaced to rebuild front assemblies have been replaced left and right it's not going to go three four hundred thousand trouble-free miles now you got to take in consideration that it's a normally aspirated V6 engine doesn't have turbochargers doesn't have gasoline direct injection so an old thing like this hey just show me this in just rear wheel drive because then it wouldn't need anything done it might last them quite some time but eventually that four wheel drive system is going to go out with a Ford unlike Subarus the all-wheel drive systems have a limited lifespan on it still running good enough now yeah the front wheel I decided slipping a little because he didn't change the right side but eventually that transfer system is going to go out and then it's going to cost a fortune to fix where if it was rear-wheel drive you just keep cruising down and you got so much less to fix too if the transmission breaks on just the rear wheel drive that's it so it's a lot simpler and it's going to last a lot longer BMW X5 here people say horrible things about them people say great things about them here's a real one that a guy bought used okay the original MSRP was 78 000 he paid 28 grand with 40 something thousand miles on it now this guy had worked on the assembly line of BMW and now he does stuff like testing them out he could take these things apart and put them back together again that's one of the reasons he bought the car and the other reason was he lives in South Carolina where strangely enough he found a British mechanic who works on these things who's honest now this may be the only BMW mechanic in the world who's honest as far as I'm concerned now you can see why people buy them because they're beautiful SUVs they're luxurious inside we'll go on the other side while we're walking around I'll have their interiors and match it's got the Dual sunroof lots of room in the back it has a warning if you don't know any PMW mechanics and you buy one of these you better have a big piggy bank for repairs in the case of this one he has had to replace the air conditioning compressor between 40 and 80 000 miles it was Thirty One hundred dollars he had to replace the compressor the condenser the compressor just flat blew hole in itself even at that price if you're taking it to the dealer it would have been even more so you realize they're not cheap to fix but as you can see here's the injection system it is solidly built and inline six he took the plastic crap engine cover off and threw it away because he knows about machines that doesn't serve any purpose and truthfully hey he lives in South Carolina you do not want heat to build up on your engine you want it to dissipate now if you live in Alaska I can understand it it's freezing cold you want the heat to stay under there but where it's hot a beauty cover actually serves negative benefits it's hurting the vehicle by holding the heat in I mean look other stuff's plastic this little plastic line broke this little plastic hose here was 75 bucks let me tell you that's the tip of the iceberg on one of these as you can see here this is the charge hose right and this charge hose he tried an aftermarket one but it blew off so he had to go back to OEM and this hose was a 410 dollar part like I say tip of the iceberg on these things the parts cost a small fortune that's one of the reasons that he could get a 78 000 car for 20 something thousand dollars I don't care what kind of nonsense they give you about oh high resale values I remember way back decades ago BMW touted that they had the highest resale value in the world they claimed out their 528 version had the highest recently found some item that they barely sold many of and then the next year the prices went up so the resale value the other ones they claim was high this is more reality BMW somebody something grand for a new one forty thousand goes for 20 something Grand that is the reality of things because most people understand that BMW stands for bring my wallet when it comes time to maintain and fix the car and check out the tires he's got nice tires you know why he's got nice tires because this baby come with a stupid run flat tires and he said it rode like crap why would I want a car like this that rides like crap that's the big reason you really don't see too many cars anymore using run flat tires yeah I mean if you're worried that you know bad people are coming after you with guns you want to have bulletproof Tires I'd run flat yeah but if you want a nice car that rides nice run flat tires stink so he went to normal good tires you can see these aren't crazy low profile they're normal tires normal rims they're not that crazy going to go flat every time you hit a curb or hit a pothole and blow out they're much better with these tires on them now this car has about every option there is but he went with the base Wheels he doesn't want to pop his tires on the potholes and deal with that crap but everybody wants these big wheels with low profile because the way they look this guy's smart he got this for the way that it drives the original idea of BMW was the ultimate driving machine and way back in the 60s hey they were driving circles around American cars and they kept the driving up it's just that they started going too much into stylistic crap that doesn't serve a purpose but take a look inside her up foreign boy that's a really cool little Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year now you can hear this is one strong running engine I'm gonna put my scan tool on a bus BMW and these six cylinder engines they can run forever smooth power delivery nice smooth idle a lot of companies have gone away from straight sixes not BMW these things are solid built and this one has an excellent transmission these size of chips even better now than it did when he bought it years ago they're solid build cars it's the plastic and electronic stuff that'll drive you nuts and as he just told me you got to maintain them a lot of people don't maintain anything okay let's say you're gonna buy a Toyota right buy a Toyota change the oil every five ten thousand miles that's about it first hundred thousand miles 10 years that's probably all you're gonna have to do these you have to maintain if you don't maintain your car don't buy BMW ah we're turning on scan around diagnosis sex five us diagnosis in an auto scan here we go so here we go now we always expect a few codes we'll start out with the integrated chassis management it has one fault and the code is signal invalid from a transmitter from the electric power steering as the owner just said if you heard him stupid German stuff yes the Germans get carried away with just about everything we really don't care about that but there's also an electronic power steering code let's look at that I bet it's the same code too watch electronic power steering torque sensor steering angle index faulty intermittent so I will erase that too the headlight High system is two codes let's see what those codes are it's actually getting to be comical now okay intermittent connection headlight to CID no communication CID image data invalid or faulty so we'll erase those too so according to this the Adaptive headlights aren't adapting quite correctly but he has no problem seeing when he's driving nobody's flashing their brights at himself we'll see what else is on the computer we have the integrated Automatic Heating and AC okay that's got a fault too let's see what that fault is all right people you're not gonna believe this but this one is stratification flap motor front right locking has been detected you're gonna find this on any BMW as it ages you're going to get wacky codes up a Wazoo because of all the technology you wouldn't believe how many separate modules are on this thing and also takes is one little glitch realize all these computer modules work on five volt reference signals not much power and usually the amperage that goes through them is milliamps thousands of an amp hardly any little glitch and it'll do squirrely stuff like this so we'll go back We'll erase that too oh all the cards are gone except for this first one the integrated chassis management it erases but it immediately comes drag on it'll be the same code for sure signal EPS is invalid the transmitter for the electronic power steering so according to this it's not getting the actual position of the power steering there's something wrong either in the wiring or the sensor itself but like I say it hasn't had any problem driving around so let's look at live band two live data battery voltage is fine remember these are color coded if anything's weird it's going to be color coded to be off but look at all this stuff ambient pressure ambient temperature throttle valve opening position charging pressure a wig of the German Surplus here the dad is here on this machine do I have to get a pressure gauge and hook it up fuel maybe it'll leak start a fire then you got to buy new gaskets this at least you get a good machine like this you can actually read it to see if it's working right or not I'll give them an A plus for that one and check this out variable camshaft timing exhaust position with engine running it's running it is 4.06 poor 0.22 it moves around a little curveball wrinkles means crank angle the angle of the crank yes they have to have everything in strange languages even on the machines that we Americans use so here we go with more the pressure I mean look at this running rough value pretty close to zero I mean look we're talking about you're off of 23 100th of a percent it's pretty good nothing of course there's no misfires they're all zero but the Germans go further than misfires they go to rough running values now that one was perfect for secondness point zero zero zero oh now it's point zero four nine point zero six and zero point zero zero again that's the Germans for you and their search for Perfection they find out valvie can get Klaus but we can't get the whole way yeah but you can see look at the amount of data this thing has so many modules on it it will make your head spin alternator temperature alternator excitation current you can really analyze these things if you want to go that far it shows you the whole Sensor One accelerator pedal voltage so it's a two pedal voltage they really make it so you can analyze the stuff that's no arguing and ignition timing on a running engine it's running it has three degrees Kerbal Winkle 3.75 40.5 we'll wrap it up of course it'll go up then because it's got Advanced the timing well it's actually an excellent shape Kerbal Winkles are not so let's take it for Spin and of course it's got a killer stereo we got all kinds of wide angle sign your regular angle look we can see everything look here we go we're moving you can see we're moving I love these cameras now this baby even has night vision on the front let's hope it doesn't have an mg42 under the hood too of course as you can see here it's got a nice heads up display shows you how fast you're going and the speed limit where you are it's 25 miles an hour here comes in real Handy and this is broad daylight we're looking at this thing driving into the sun this really works well and now you can really see why people buy these things because they're fun to drive they're very smooth it's kind of like riding in a Magic Carpet Ride but hey they handle like a dream it's just the repairs that are nightmares so here we go to our little drag strip nobody's coming so well somebody's coming there you take these things out in the country out in the highway that's what they're made for and here we come to our little drag strip now realize this is just a six cylinder inline engine but the charm is an automatic them we'll check the shifting we'll check the engine Ready Set Go smooth power delivery those shifts you can barely feel it shifting that's how they sell them you get in one of these and drive it you're gonna think oh man I'm in love with the BMW but it may be one of those love affairs that doesn't last over times and after your divorce your fifth life you might wonder gee maybe I should stay away from those things this has got 81 000 miles on it now but hey you really don't have anything wrong with it at all other than all that crazy German nonsense angle this that and everything else it stairs fine it dries fine look at that passing gear you can pass people in this and the engine just keeps ticking they're pretty quiet inside we'll come to a stop the thing and here's the fan it's on low that's all I can hear there's a fan on low smooth as can be the six cylinder engines that's what they're made for smooth power now gas mileage not so much he gets around 20 miles a gallon but this is an all-wheel drive vehicle too it's heavy and it's fast so you know you can't whine about 20 miles a gallon if you're gonna drive something like this and have some fun in it it's not made for gas mileage that's one of the reasons that straight six engines really aren't that much around because they do use a bit more fuel than a V6 configuration well and one of the reasons he went for the six cylinder was because he didn't want the V8 because he knows about BMWs he works for them and he knows the valve stems on the V8s go bad you gotta pull the engines it costs a lot of money my grandson's got a V8 BMW and yesterday though seals are gone and it burns oil they all do that it's a known flaw on these six cylinder engines no they're strong engines and listen to that sound yeah it's a six cylinder engine but boy it's got a nice home to it BMW X5 known as one of the most expensive vehicles in the world to take care of and maintain but this guy maintains it and he has a English mechanic who knows how to work on them you can see the technology from my fancy computer that's in these things it's absolutely insane but they are fun to drive the engines are solid the Transmissions are solid just realize you got to maintain them and you're gonna have to find yourself a mechanic like he did the English guy who understands a guy like me with equipment that can actually see what's going on understand how to fix these things because they are so complex Sports 10-speed automatic transmission this is a 2018 Mustang it's had problems you had a lot of work done on it so we're going to show you what's happened to this give an overall view of the Mustang too but mainly we're going to talk about the transmission it's a 10-speed automatic transmission that Ford and GM worked on together then it was like cats and dogs they went their separate way soon after but got 10 speeds and three of them are overdrives for better gas mileage those three overdrives you can get good gas mods if you drive conservatively the best you can get in this is 27 on a highway okay when I drive these things I get like four miles a gallon because I drive them like a maniac but for the overall car itself he really has no complaints he hasn't had any problems with it it's got 57 000 miles on it other than he didn't like the Chrome side Plasti Dip that he's got to do that over plastic dip doesn't always last that long but he's real happy with the car except for the transmission when he first got it was acting up he took it in they re-flashed the ECM they had of change in the valve body at 14 000 miles they change the torque converter and then recently they did some more work so he's had the torque converter change the valve body he said it reflashed a bunch of times he's going to have me check it out with my machine we're going to take it further and road test but the problem is this was one of their earlier versions of the 10 speed I do have to say I did one a few weeks ago on a year old 10-speed automatic and it didn't really have any problems the only problems that you have to understand with that transmission is it is set up for gas mileage you're not going to find too many fast Mustangs that get 27 miles a gallon right you got to drive them slow but it can do that once I drive never doing the normal ones I used to drive I'd be lucky if I got 14 on the highway driving conservatively so you can get good gas mods this way so on the new ones the one that I did a few weeks ago they're better than these by far but still if you are are in an economy mode when you're taken off from slow especially if you're at a stop sign maybe you're turning right going up a hill sometimes they hunt for Gears if you have them in economy mode if you switch over to sports mode generally they work really well especially the new ones they've got that set up better so if you really want to zoom around put it in sports mode and they go back to economy mode whenever you wanted the economy that's why there's the different modes it's for different driving Styles and if you don't understand what it's for learn in this case it was the guy's wife and she didn't even know there were different modes and I explained hey look put in sports mode they put in sports mode and then she didn't complain about lack of acceleration you can bypass some of the problems by going into sports now like I said he's real happy with the rest of the car the five liter engines got plenty of pulling power doesn't burn any oil and like I say if you drive a conservatively with the three overdrives you can get as much as 27 miles a gallon which is a mirror Circle for a Mustang so we're going to look at the data and we're going to take it for a spin we've got a lot of nice controls on your steel nice little small steering wheel black and chrome seats are nice and comfy hold you in it's a typical Mustang there's some room in the back seat not outrageous for long leg people but they're comfortable enough if you're short or killer sound system speakers all over the place in case you're interested in the transmission so first gonna do a big scan and so we shall analyze it and then we're going to look at all the transmission data as I said okay this ain't got 57 838 miles on it and we'll do a diagnosis it's got a decent Touch Screen Works relatively fast either set your temperature turn traction control off if you want and you get to play with the modes too as you can see there's various modes we'll start out with normal mode spark plus track only drag strip and snow were wet and these aren't just buttons that are there to look cute you know with little icons they actually do things you're not supposed to use a drag strip in a regular driving the snow or wet one is going to put it in different gears so the wheels don't slip they're pretty sophisticated system oh there's a few little faults here we'll start with the anti-lock brake system tire diameter it's confused no one reset it right so we don't care about that we will erase it and see if it comes back we're strike control module body control module B there's a little fault there let's see what the head is reading those codes let's see what they are left rear turn lamp feedback right rear turn lamp feedback yeah a lot of computer stuff in these modern cars let me tell you we're going to erase all these codes and see if any of them come back they're not transmission codes but as long as we're here we might as well go through the whole thing we'll go back to the last one which is power steering control module we'll see what that code is well of course this is electronic power steering control more computer controls you'll often get these communication cards so we'll erase they had to we take it for a road test we'll see if anything comes back so now we're gonna start her up and we'll go to some live data and take a road test but we're going to go to the transmission section take a road time rolling through we can see the injector output faults there's no Faults the intactors are all working fine check it out the direct injection long-term fuel trim zero zero it is running perfectly you can't run any better than zero the water is happy with where it's running it's running perfectly talk about data look at all the information you get on the generator current sensor corrected value frequency now we all know the voltage is good as 14.44 14.38 but they give all kinds of information the injectors no Faults we'll go through them all eight of them seven eight and they're all no Faults now here's a bunch of pressure control solenoid information on the transmission and I'm going to watch while he drives the vehicle watch the torque converter deceleration fuel shut off that's how these things get good gas mileage they are all controlled by computers no Faults in the torque converter clutch give me the solenoid pressure see the car converter slip the actual while you're driving now we're coming to a stop as you can see the faster you go the slip definitely goes down and it follows the desired versus the actual okay now Ford here we go we're taking off now as you can see now it's got very little par converter slip the actual fluid temperature see that's normal you can see the input chip sensor the quality it's good it's confirmed it's good it's confirmed the frequency go to the transmission range sensor input B quality factor is good confirmed all of it is good so they did a pretty good job this last time around okay well we've done our road test and we'll check the codes and while it's searching through the codes well hey we know one thing they did a good job fixing the transmission this the third time because it's not slipping at all before if it's taking off sometimes it would barely go it's shifting perfectly fine not any slippage before when he slowed down you'd feel the shifting down clunking down that's all gone too so this third time let's hope it's a charm and they fixed it right none of the codes came back it's all green well blue in this case oh they were just minor chords we don't give a crap about okay so what have we learned well let's hope the third time is the charm form because the third time they worked on it with the torque converter chains chains valve bodies and they've reprogrammed stuff it is Shifting like a dream now these early 10 speeds yes they had problems but like I said the later ones don't seem to and I'm assuming they're putting later software into these things they figured out what's off software works best now he's only got about 2 000 miles left on the warranty and we'll hope that this third time charm that this is going to last because it is running perfectly now it's actually slipping less than normal I was looking at what the desired slippage is and the actual the action was actually less so we've obviously programmed it so it doesn't slip and like I said he's getting 20 something miles a gallon if you drive slow phenomenal gas mods for a fast car like that driven in regular mode not in sports mode of course what's the moral of the story don't buy something when it first comes out but they seem to fix it we'll see as time goes on believe me if this thing acts up he's going to tell me about it and I'll tell you about it well the third fixed winner that lasted 5000 miles or whatever we'll find out but it's working perfectly fine now and if there is a problem and he brings it back my machine's going to show what's going on so don't buy the first of anything out there only time will tell but dirt time a charm for the guy let's hope so so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell foreignfather again well this is a Tennessee car so you can see it's clean it's not rotten away so you don't have to worry about rust on the frame or anything you got a four liter single overhead cam V6 engine it's actually a very reliable engine this one's got 160 000 miles doesn't burn any oil these are great engines because there's no turbos on them they're normally fuel injected so they don't have problems with any carbon buildup and it's pretty well set up when they do brake for replacing Parts the problem with these forwards of course is that this isn't a plain old rear wheel drive one which is simpler this you can see you can have Auto 4x4 High 4x4 low the weakest thing is the four-wheel drive system it costs more it weighs more and of course it makes these things gas Hawks he says he probably averages about 16 in this thing if you don't need a four-wheel drive all-wheel drive vehicle my advice is don't buy it especially if you're buying an older one now he's put 80 3000 miles on it he's got his 10 Grands who are tired of it but let's say you're gonna buy this vehicle today I would try to talk you out of it it's going to be super expensive when it finally goes out it's probably going out a little now we're going to check it with a scan tool now on the other hand if you're a mechanic like me you can find a lot of good looking ones like these in the South that don't move under their own power and you can pick them up for four or five hundred bucks then you can put the transmission transfer case in yourself if you're a Riverboat Gambler you like rolling a dice try one in a junkyard but really the age of this they're pretty worn too you're better off getting remanufactured units if you're willing to spend that kind of money go right ahead consider what a new 4x4 cost hey you got to put four or five grand in one that you picked up for 500 bucks that's not a bad deal but if you're the type of person that's looking for something you're going to buy used and you want to drive the family around it I'd stay away from one of these four by fours with 106 thousand miles on them now let's start it up Star Trek and as you can hear and see the engines on it smooth doesn't make too much noise these are excellent engines it's the transmissions on these all-wheel drive ones that have the problems now he's already replaced the Hub on this side I'm assuming this one's probably going to need replacing probably had some slippage but the computer and look at the data first and while it's looking up stuff you can see it's a work truck he's got all the stuff in here AC gauges you name it you can use these for a work truck now he actually does use the four-wheel drive in his business and stuff when it snows doesn't sell it much round it does once in a while but mainly for mud and goop and rain and all that stuff it does work well just realize with the forge it has a limited lifespan just looked up you just got everything Explorer the 2v4 liter automatic so up it comes diagnosis and here we go with an auto scan and we're scanner on you see he's not lying it just turned 160 000 miles on it and really doesn't look that bad of course four so the radio's broken but on the plus side the air conditioner still works and yes it does have a sunroof and now you can see there's a few faults here so we're going to go through them all just low we don't care about occupant classification system we don't care about that either so we'll turn it off we'll turn it back on and we'll erase that stupid code that's got a gem module General electrical module some codes there they might lead to something there's four arms double go in the fourth they'll get wacko Electronics up you can see there's a whole bunch of them but we really don't care lamp headlamp input circuit short to ground okay so what he's done is he's replaced the headlamps with the LEDs and that's why he has all these headlamp codes because it confuses the system now they work the warning light comes up on the dash but it's Tennessee nobody does any kind of inspections we don't care the headlights work but for those of you living someplace where they check all that crap realize you can't just replace stuff with LEDs you got to make sure you have the right ballast resistors all kinds of other crap so you know if your headlights work okay my advice in that case is leave them alone if you got a Ford not a Toyota they don't care you just put the LEDs without resistors away they go these are a little more particular so and the last one is satellite audio digital receiver system considering that the radio doesn't even work you know I don't think you're going to Care much about that but we'll see what it says Just for kicks ECU electronic control unit internal fault an electronic control unit internal fault okay well really since it's for the radio system we really don't care what he's curious about is what kind of shape the powertrains in so we want to look at the live damage there's all the live data we'll start looking at it so far everything's looking pretty good we can see the output shaft data put it in gear now you can see it's zero because you're wearing gear and it's not spinning anymore we put it in park it'll start spinning again so we just we know that debt is being applied and it's real data you see there's no misfires the fuel ride pressure 370 364 368.45 so it's real close what it's commanding and what it's getting so even the fuel pump's in excellent shape there's a fuel pump percentage okay it's running at 24 now if we rub it up of course it'll go higher injectors are fine they got no Faults it's a four liter engine and a mass airflow sensor is 3.95 92 that's the right spot on that's working fine so the module is fine 14.21 and you can see in the transmission the output shaft speed failure mode and has no Faults pressure control modules on the transmission no fault gives you the pressure shifts on the lights on it shows there's no Faults with the shift solenoids either and the torque converter unlocking due to slipping there's no Faults in that so it is slipping it's not slipping bad but what we're going to do here is we're going to put down torque converter data and we're going to record it and here we go still handles decently when he's worried about his transformation so the liftgate jar is open because he got something out of trunk didn't close it so you can't blame the truck on that right it's way too hot in here the heat works we'll turn that off now I can feel a slight slippage taken off there but we'll go to our little drag strip and here we go still got plenty of pulling power the engines looking fine the isn't horrible I can feel a little slippage but let's see what it does when it's under a full low there's nobody behind us so here we go all right still tights off pretty good full load decent shift another decent ship we'll let go downshifts very smoothly no jerking yet now we'll see what passing gear goes like before smooth still working pretty good all-in-onement before things rattle as they age but hey it's still running pretty good well Bonnie and Clyde days to steal Fords all the time because they said they were nice fast getaway cars and hey this thing get up and go up and go with 160 000 miles now I notice when I turn it hard here I can feel a little slippage in the right front now he's changed the Hub on the left front so he should change the Hub on the right front but when you're going straight you don't feel any of that now as I said earlier if this had been a conventional two-wheel drive Explorer with just rear-wheel drive and not the all-wheel drive system I would tell somebody if they're going to buy this vehicle go ahead and buy it because there's no codes in the transmission and no problems but with that transfer case I'd be real leery about buying one of these things used in an all-wheel drive version so we'll go back in time here we'll start looking at the information as it plays back and all of that is black it's all normal it didn't slip much at all 160 000 miles now he's put 80 of them on he's getting his money's worth he did have to change that Hub and eventually have to change the one on the other side transmissions and slipping too much you saw on the road test up shift downshift the engine runs like a top now if I had a customer looking to buy this thing I would try to talk them away find one with the four wheel all-wheel drive system on it because that will eventually break and cost a fortune to fix if this headband just the rear wheel drive one I would have put hands down buy it at a good price because it's in excellent shape yeah the radio doesn't work who cares you can put another radio in it got stupid communication codes we don't care about that either with the four-wheel drive system I would be exceptionally leery if I were you buying one with a 160 000 miles unless they had information that the transfer case has been replaced to rebuild front assemblies have been replaced left and right it's not going to go three four hundred thousand trouble-free miles now you got to take in consideration that it's a normally aspirated V6 engine doesn't have turbochargers doesn't have gasoline direct injection so an old thing like this hey just show me this in just rear wheel drive because then it wouldn't need anything done it might last them quite some time but eventually that four wheel drive system is going to go out with a Ford unlike Subarus the all-wheel drive systems have a limited lifespan on it still running good enough now yeah the front wheel I decided slipping a little because he didn't change the right side but eventually that transfer system is going to go out and then it's going to cost a fortune to fix where if it was rear-wheel drive you just keep cruising down and you got so much less to fix too if the transmission breaks on just the rear wheel drive that's it so it's a lot simpler and it's going to last a lot longer BMW X5 here people say horrible things about them people say great things about them here's a real one that a guy bought used okay the original MSRP was 78 000 he paid 28 grand with 40 something thousand miles on it now this guy had worked on the assembly line of BMW and now he does stuff like testing them out he could take these things apart and put them back together again that's one of the reasons he bought the car and the other reason was he lives in South Carolina where strangely enough he found a British mechanic who works on these things who's honest now this may be the only BMW mechanic in the world who's honest as far as I'm concerned now you can see why people buy them because they're beautiful SUVs they're luxurious inside we'll go on the other side while we're walking around I'll have their interiors and match it's got the Dual sunroof lots of room in the back it has a warning if you don't know any PMW mechanics and you buy one of these you better have a big piggy bank for repairs in the case of this one he has had to replace the air conditioning compressor between 40 and 80 000 miles it was Thirty One hundred dollars he had to replace the compressor the condenser the compressor just flat blew hole in itself even at that price if you're taking it to the dealer it would have been even more so you realize they're not cheap to fix but as you can see here's the injection system it is solidly built and inline six he took the plastic crap engine cover off and threw it away because he knows about machines that doesn't serve any purpose and truthfully hey he lives in South Carolina you do not want heat to build up on your engine you want it to dissipate now if you live in Alaska I can understand it it's freezing cold you want the heat to stay under there but where it's hot a beauty cover actually serves negative benefits it's hurting the vehicle by holding the heat in I mean look other stuff's plastic this little plastic line broke this little plastic hose here was 75 bucks let me tell you that's the tip of the iceberg on one of these as you can see here this is the charge hose right and this charge hose he tried an aftermarket one but it blew off so he had to go back to OEM and this hose was a 410 dollar part like I say tip of the iceberg on these things the parts cost a small fortune that's one of the reasons that he could get a 78 000 car for 20 something thousand dollars I don't care what kind of nonsense they give you about oh high resale values I remember way back decades ago BMW touted that they had the highest resale value in the world they claimed out their 528 version had the highest recently found some item that they barely sold many of and then the next year the prices went up so the resale value the other ones they claim was high this is more reality BMW somebody something grand for a new one forty thousand goes for 20 something Grand that is the reality of things because most people understand that BMW stands for bring my wallet when it comes time to maintain and fix the car and check out the tires he's got nice tires you know why he's got nice tires because this baby come with a stupid run flat tires and he said it rode like crap why would I want a car like this that rides like crap that's the big reason you really don't see too many cars anymore using run flat tires yeah I mean if you're worried that you know bad people are coming after you with guns you want to have bulletproof Tires I'd run flat yeah but if you want a nice car that rides nice run flat tires stink so he went to normal good tires you can see these aren't crazy low profile they're normal tires normal rims they're not that crazy going to go flat every time you hit a curb or hit a pothole and blow out they're much better with these tires on them now this car has about every option there is but he went with the base Wheels he doesn't want to pop his tires on the potholes and deal with that crap but everybody wants these big wheels with low profile because the way they look this guy's smart he got this for the way that it drives the original idea of BMW was the ultimate driving machine and way back in the 60s hey they were driving circles around American cars and they kept the driving up it's just that they started going too much into stylistic crap that doesn't serve a purpose but take a look inside her up foreign boy that's a really cool little Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year now you can hear this is one strong running engine I'm gonna put my scan tool on a bus BMW and these six cylinder engines they can run forever smooth power delivery nice smooth idle a lot of companies have gone away from straight sixes not BMW these things are solid built and this one has an excellent transmission these size of chips even better now than it did when he bought it years ago they're solid build cars it's the plastic and electronic stuff that'll drive you nuts and as he just told me you got to maintain them a lot of people don't maintain anything okay let's say you're gonna buy a Toyota right buy a Toyota change the oil every five ten thousand miles that's about it first hundred thousand miles 10 years that's probably all you're gonna have to do these you have to maintain if you don't maintain your car don't buy BMW ah we're turning on scan around diagnosis sex five us diagnosis in an auto scan here we go so here we go now we always expect a few codes we'll start out with the integrated chassis management it has one fault and the code is signal invalid from a transmitter from the electric power steering as the owner just said if you heard him stupid German stuff yes the Germans get carried away with just about everything we really don't care about that but there's also an electronic power steering code let's look at that I bet it's the same code too watch electronic power steering torque sensor steering angle index faulty intermittent so I will erase that too the headlight High system is two codes let's see what those codes are it's actually getting to be comical now okay intermittent connection headlight to CID no communication CID image data invalid or faulty so we'll erase those too so according to this the Adaptive headlights aren't adapting quite correctly but he has no problem seeing when he's driving nobody's flashing their brights at himself we'll see what else is on the computer we have the integrated Automatic Heating and AC okay that's got a fault too let's see what that fault is all right people you're not gonna believe this but this one is stratification flap motor front right locking has been detected you're gonna find this on any BMW as it ages you're going to get wacky codes up a Wazoo because of all the technology you wouldn't believe how many separate modules are on this thing and also takes is one little glitch realize all these computer modules work on five volt reference signals not much power and usually the amperage that goes through them is milliamps thousands of an amp hardly any little glitch and it'll do squirrely stuff like this so we'll go back We'll erase that too oh all the cards are gone except for this first one the integrated chassis management it erases but it immediately comes drag on it'll be the same code for sure signal EPS is invalid the transmitter for the electronic power steering so according to this it's not getting the actual position of the power steering there's something wrong either in the wiring or the sensor itself but like I say it hasn't had any problem driving around so let's look at live band two live data battery voltage is fine remember these are color coded if anything's weird it's going to be color coded to be off but look at all this stuff ambient pressure ambient temperature throttle valve opening position charging pressure a wig of the German Surplus here the dad is here on this machine do I have to get a pressure gauge and hook it up fuel maybe it'll leak start a fire then you got to buy new gaskets this at least you get a good machine like this you can actually read it to see if it's working right or not I'll give them an A plus for that one and check this out variable camshaft timing exhaust position with engine running it's running it is 4.06 poor 0.22 it moves around a little curveball wrinkles means crank angle the angle of the crank yes they have to have everything in strange languages even on the machines that we Americans use so here we go with more the pressure I mean look at this running rough value pretty close to zero I mean look we're talking about you're off of 23 100th of a percent it's pretty good nothing of course there's no misfires they're all zero but the Germans go further than misfires they go to rough running values now that one was perfect for secondness point zero zero zero oh now it's point zero four nine point zero six and zero point zero zero again that's the Germans for you and their search for Perfection they find out valvie can get Klaus but we can't get the whole way yeah but you can see look at the amount of data this thing has so many modules on it it will make your head spin alternator temperature alternator excitation current you can really analyze these things if you want to go that far it shows you the whole Sensor One accelerator pedal voltage so it's a two pedal voltage they really make it so you can analyze the stuff that's no arguing and ignition timing on a running engine it's running it has three degrees Kerbal Winkle 3.75 40.5 we'll wrap it up of course it'll go up then because it's got Advanced the timing well it's actually an excellent shape Kerbal Winkles are not so let's take it for Spin and of course it's got a killer stereo we got all kinds of wide angle sign your regular angle look we can see everything look here we go we're moving you can see we're moving I love these cameras now this baby even has night vision on the front let's hope it doesn't have an mg42 under the hood too of course as you can see here it's got a nice heads up display shows you how fast you're going and the speed limit where you are it's 25 miles an hour here comes in real Handy and this is broad daylight we're looking at this thing driving into the sun this really works well and now you can really see why people buy these things because they're fun to drive they're very smooth it's kind of like riding in a Magic Carpet Ride but hey they handle like a dream it's just the repairs that are nightmares so here we go to our little drag strip nobody's coming so well somebody's coming there you take these things out in the country out in the highway that's what they're made for and here we come to our little drag strip now realize this is just a six cylinder inline engine but the charm is an automatic them we'll check the shifting we'll check the engine Ready Set Go smooth power delivery those shifts you can barely feel it shifting that's how they sell them you get in one of these and drive it you're gonna think oh man I'm in love with the BMW but it may be one of those love affairs that doesn't last over times and after your divorce your fifth life you might wonder gee maybe I should stay away from those things this has got 81 000 miles on it now but hey you really don't have anything wrong with it at all other than all that crazy German nonsense angle this that and everything else it stairs fine it dries fine look at that passing gear you can pass people in this and the engine just keeps ticking they're pretty quiet inside we'll come to a stop the thing and here's the fan it's on low that's all I can hear there's a fan on low smooth as can be the six cylinder engines that's what they're made for smooth power now gas mileage not so much he gets around 20 miles a gallon but this is an all-wheel drive vehicle too it's heavy and it's fast so you know you can't whine about 20 miles a gallon if you're gonna drive something like this and have some fun in it it's not made for gas mileage that's one of the reasons that straight six engines really aren't that much around because they do use a bit more fuel than a V6 configuration well and one of the reasons he went for the six cylinder was because he didn't want the V8 because he knows about BMWs he works for them and he knows the valve stems on the V8s go bad you gotta pull the engines it costs a lot of money my grandson's got a V8 BMW and yesterday though seals are gone and it burns oil they all do that it's a known flaw on these six cylinder engines no they're strong engines and listen to that sound yeah it's a six cylinder engine but boy it's got a nice home to it BMW X5 known as one of the most expensive vehicles in the world to take care of and maintain but this guy maintains it and he has a English mechanic who knows how to work on them you can see the technology from my fancy computer that's in these things it's absolutely insane but they are fun to drive the engines are solid the Transmissions are solid just realize you got to maintain them and you're gonna have to find yourself a mechanic like he did the English guy who understands a guy like me with equipment that can actually see what's going on understand how to fix these things because they are so complex Sports 10-speed automatic transmission this is a 2018 Mustang it's had problems you had a lot of work done on it so we're going to show you what's happened to this give an overall view of the Mustang too but mainly we're going to talk about the transmission it's a 10-speed automatic transmission that Ford and GM worked on together then it was like cats and dogs they went their separate way soon after but got 10 speeds and three of them are overdrives for better gas mileage those three overdrives you can get good gas mods if you drive conservatively the best you can get in this is 27 on a highway okay when I drive these things I get like four miles a gallon because I drive them like a maniac but for the overall car itself he really has no complaints he hasn't had any problems with it it's got 57 000 miles on it other than he didn't like the Chrome side Plasti Dip that he's got to do that over plastic dip doesn't always last that long but he's real happy with the car except for the transmission when he first got it was acting up he took it in they re-flashed the ECM they had of change in the valve body at 14 000 miles they change the torque converter and then recently they did some more work so he's had the torque converter change the valve body he said it reflashed a bunch of times he's going to have me check it out with my machine we're going to take it further and road test but the problem is this was one of their earlier versions of the 10 speed I do have to say I did one a few weeks ago on a year old 10-speed automatic and it didn't really have any problems the only problems that you have to understand with that transmission is it is set up for gas mileage you're not going to find too many fast Mustangs that get 27 miles a gallon right you got to drive them slow but it can do that once I drive never doing the normal ones I used to drive I'd be lucky if I got 14 on the highway driving conservatively so you can get good gas mods this way so on the new ones the one that I did a few weeks ago they're better than these by far but still if you are are in an economy mode when you're taken off from slow especially if you're at a stop sign maybe you're turning right going up a hill sometimes they hunt for Gears if you have them in economy mode if you switch over to sports mode generally they work really well especially the new ones they've got that set up better so if you really want to zoom around put it in sports mode and they go back to economy mode whenever you wanted the economy that's why there's the different modes it's for different driving Styles and if you don't understand what it's for learn in this case it was the guy's wife and she didn't even know there were different modes and I explained hey look put in sports mode they put in sports mode and then she didn't complain about lack of acceleration you can bypass some of the problems by going into sports now like I said he's real happy with the rest of the car the five liter engines got plenty of pulling power doesn't burn any oil and like I say if you drive a conservatively with the three overdrives you can get as much as 27 miles a gallon which is a mirror Circle for a Mustang so we're going to look at the data and we're going to take it for a spin we've got a lot of nice controls on your steel nice little small steering wheel black and chrome seats are nice and comfy hold you in it's a typical Mustang there's some room in the back seat not outrageous for long leg people but they're comfortable enough if you're short or killer sound system speakers all over the place in case you're interested in the transmission so first gonna do a big scan and so we shall analyze it and then we're going to look at all the transmission data as I said okay this ain't got 57 838 miles on it and we'll do a diagnosis it's got a decent Touch Screen Works relatively fast either set your temperature turn traction control off if you want and you get to play with the modes too as you can see there's various modes we'll start out with normal mode spark plus track only drag strip and snow were wet and these aren't just buttons that are there to look cute you know with little icons they actually do things you're not supposed to use a drag strip in a regular driving the snow or wet one is going to put it in different gears so the wheels don't slip they're pretty sophisticated system oh there's a few little faults here we'll start with the anti-lock brake system tire diameter it's confused no one reset it right so we don't care about that we will erase it and see if it comes back we're strike control module body control module B there's a little fault there let's see what the head is reading those codes let's see what they are left rear turn lamp feedback right rear turn lamp feedback yeah a lot of computer stuff in these modern cars let me tell you we're going to erase all these codes and see if any of them come back they're not transmission codes but as long as we're here we might as well go through the whole thing we'll go back to the last one which is power steering control module we'll see what that code is well of course this is electronic power steering control more computer controls you'll often get these communication cards so we'll erase they had to we take it for a road test we'll see if anything comes back so now we're gonna start her up and we'll go to some live data and take a road test but we're going to go to the transmission section take a road time rolling through we can see the injector output faults there's no Faults the intactors are all working fine check it out the direct injection long-term fuel trim zero zero it is running perfectly you can't run any better than zero the water is happy with where it's running it's running perfectly talk about data look at all the information you get on the generator current sensor corrected value frequency now we all know the voltage is good as 14.44 14.38 but they give all kinds of information the injectors no Faults we'll go through them all eight of them seven eight and they're all no Faults now here's a bunch of pressure control solenoid information on the transmission and I'm going to watch while he drives the vehicle watch the torque converter deceleration fuel shut off that's how these things get good gas mileage they are all controlled by computers no Faults in the torque converter clutch give me the solenoid pressure see the car converter slip the actual while you're driving now we're coming to a stop as you can see the faster you go the slip definitely goes down and it follows the desired versus the actual okay now Ford here we go we're taking off now as you can see now it's got very little par converter slip the actual fluid temperature see that's normal you can see the input chip sensor the quality it's good it's confirmed it's good it's confirmed the frequency go to the transmission range sensor input B quality factor is good confirmed all of it is good so they did a pretty good job this last time around okay well we've done our road test and we'll check the codes and while it's searching through the codes well hey we know one thing they did a good job fixing the transmission this the third time because it's not slipping at all before if it's taking off sometimes it would barely go it's shifting perfectly fine not any slippage before when he slowed down you'd feel the shifting down clunking down that's all gone too so this third time let's hope it's a charm and they fixed it right none of the codes came back it's all green well blue in this case oh they were just minor chords we don't give a crap about okay so what have we learned well let's hope the third time is the charm form because the third time they worked on it with the torque converter chains chains valve bodies and they've reprogrammed stuff it is Shifting like a dream now these early 10 speeds yes they had problems but like I said the later ones don't seem to and I'm assuming they're putting later software into these things they figured out what's off software works best now he's only got about 2 000 miles left on the warranty and we'll hope that this third time charm that this is going to last because it is running perfectly now it's actually slipping less than normal I was looking at what the desired slippage is and the actual the action was actually less so we've obviously programmed it so it doesn't slip and like I said he's getting 20 something miles a gallon if you drive slow phenomenal gas mods for a fast car like that driven in regular mode not in sports mode of course what's the moral of the story don't buy something when it first comes out but they seem to fix it we'll see as time goes on believe me if this thing acts up he's going to tell me about it and I'll tell you about it well the third fixed winner that lasted 5000 miles or whatever we'll find out but it's working perfectly fine now and if there is a problem and he brings it back my machine's going to show what's going on so don't buy the first of anything out there only time will tell but dirt time a charm for the guy let's hope so so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell 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