If anyone is watching this trying to fix the overheating issue: There’s an inline thermostat coming from your transmission oil cooler. Find it and throw it in the trash! They all get stuck shut or defective in someway. You’re welcome.
I would be pissed if I spent $700 on a Valve Body and it didn't fix the problem immediately after installation. What I don't understand is why didn't the Solenoid replacement fix the problem in the first place? What am I missing here? Thanks for the videos! Very helpful.
The valve body’s are notoriously made out of a soft metal where just like a river, the channels get worn out and eroded by the fluid which can cause leaks around solenoids resulting in lower than needed pressure, is my understanding.
I had to get my 2.5l 2008 valve body fixed too. took it to a trans shop and ordered a $800 reman valve body. the trans shop charged me $450 but the car was in no better shape after the replacement. long story but the trans shop wanted another $ 700 to pull out the old valve body and replace it with a 2nd reman valve body. I chose to go with VW it was pain full, yep 4K. but its a reman valve body and a new wiring harness. Lessons learn, always replace the wiring harness per VW. If the trans shop would have replaced that part I would have never have need to go to VW for a new valve body. I think the wiring harness is around $900 goes inside the trans. It was grounding out and causing the car to shift really hard. Good luck.
Sounds sweet! I just got a 2003 turbo convertible for my lil to-be driver in the house. Clean car but GUESS what she needs? You guessed it...exhaust and has the SAME tranny issues! Ha! Anyway. Great video...Im stoked to get this lil turbo ragtop on the road for my lil peach! Thx!
What kind of transmission fluid did you use? Auto part store online search list a lot of different brands, Dextron VI, Mercon V, multi vehicle, etc. about $10/qt. I know a lot of people recommend much more expensive Pentosin, Ravonol about 3.5x more expensive. I have a black 2007 VW Rabbit 2.5L, with the shifting issues. I plan to replace the complete valve body with a used one from the same year/model/color 🙃car where the owner said it ran well. Your videos will help!
Since i've dropped the valve body 3-5 times, i've replaced the oil many times. Most times i've used pentosin - but seeing as I was still having issues, I also used some other brands i've found recommended as well. I don't remember what it was off the top of my head right now.
hi @dadwagon, did you find the issue? i am facing same issue. Specially the shifting between drive and reverse during idle. There's no codes stored in dtc. One of the mechanic in my area thinks its the torque convertor? Please let me know if you have any update?
@@DadWagon its a mouthful, but essentially it converts the movement of the shifter, or "selector lever" into electrical signals which are sent to the tcm. I've read a lot about these notorious transmissions recently and have found various PDFs with all sorts of information, but the piece of information that applies best in this case is one that I have found since last commenting, and it says: "VW added a resistor to the brake pedal circuit that activates the kickdown relearn procedure when the brake pedal has been depressed. This resets transmission adaptation on some models during brake apply". The PDF that is from is about using scan tools to communicate with the car and gives information about the learned adaptive shifting. That might be something to look into, but the tcm also takes a lot of information from other sensors within the transmission itself that may or may not mess with this memory that isn't sticking. "Kickdown/Kickdown function" confused me, so if it confused you, here's an explanation, and if you already know then no need to read. :) It describes when automatic transmissions shift to a lower gear when the driver pushes the cars accelerator to the floor. Not as if spongebob was driving and "flooring it" but as if you accelerate from a constant speed in order to pass someone/something. The kickdown function seems to be a function on a scanner tool - presumably one that doesn't just read codes on a calculator screen - that initiates the relearning/resetting.
@@51Faces wow! this is a wealth of information. Thanks for sharing and typing it all out. I really appreciate and hope to dig back into this once it warms up a bit more.
Used Mr. Shift kit and followed instructions to the letter. Reinstalled with new filter and fluid. Works perfectly. $100 plus my time.
If anyone is watching this trying to fix the overheating issue:
There’s an inline thermostat coming from your transmission oil cooler. Find it and throw it in the trash! They all get stuck shut or defective in someway. You’re welcome.
Excellent series of videos. Thanks for sharing and I hope in the end you can work it out.
Thanks so much for checking out the videos and the support.
I would be pissed if I spent $700 on a Valve Body and it didn't fix the problem immediately after installation. What I don't understand is why didn't the Solenoid replacement fix the problem in the first place? What am I missing here? Thanks for the videos! Very helpful.
The valve body’s are notoriously made out of a soft metal where just like a river, the channels get worn out and eroded by the fluid which can cause leaks around solenoids resulting in lower than needed pressure, is my understanding.
Great video thanks for sharing
I had to get my 2.5l 2008 valve body fixed too. took it to a trans shop and ordered a $800 reman valve body. the trans shop charged me $450 but the car was in no better shape after the replacement. long story but the trans shop wanted another $ 700 to pull out the old valve body and replace it with a 2nd reman valve body. I chose to go with VW it was pain full, yep 4K. but its a reman valve body and a new wiring harness. Lessons learn, always replace the wiring harness per VW. If the trans shop would have replaced that part I would have never have need to go to VW for a new valve body. I think the wiring harness is around $900 goes inside the trans. It was grounding out and causing the car to shift really hard. Good luck.
Thanks for sharing this and for the input. Glad you got it running good again.
The true fix of all 09G shifting issues is a new car with a reliable transmission.
Sounds sweet!
I just got a 2003 turbo convertible for my lil to-be driver in the house.
Clean car but GUESS what she needs? You guessed it...exhaust and has the SAME tranny issues! Ha!
Anyway. Great video...Im stoked to get this lil turbo ragtop on the road for my lil peach! Thx!
Any updates on this video and transmission problems?
What kind of transmission fluid did you use? Auto part store online search list a lot of different brands, Dextron VI, Mercon V, multi vehicle, etc. about $10/qt. I know a lot of people recommend much more expensive Pentosin, Ravonol about 3.5x more expensive. I have a black 2007 VW Rabbit 2.5L, with the shifting issues. I plan to replace the complete valve body with a used one from the same year/model/color 🙃car where the owner said it ran well. Your videos will help!
Since i've dropped the valve body 3-5 times, i've replaced the oil many times.
Most times i've used pentosin - but seeing as I was still having issues, I also used some other brands i've found recommended as well. I don't remember what it was off the top of my head right now.
What fuses reset to pull resets computer
hi @dadwagon, did you find the issue? i am facing same issue. Specially the shifting between drive and reverse during idle. There's no codes stored in dtc. One of the mechanic in my area thinks its the torque convertor? Please let me know if you have any update?
Did you get a code P0730? Thanks
Any Updates On this? Did you figure out how to get the transmission Relearn to stick?
I have not - the car is drivable - but have been unable to get the relearn to stick. Any ideas?
@@DadWagon a bad tcm or "multi function transmission range switch"?
@@51Faces what is a bad multi function transmission range switch?
@@DadWagon its a mouthful, but essentially it converts the movement of the shifter, or "selector lever" into electrical signals which are sent to the tcm. I've read a lot about these notorious transmissions recently and have found various PDFs with all sorts of information, but the piece of information that applies best in this case is one that I have found since last commenting, and it says: "VW added a resistor to the brake pedal circuit that activates the kickdown relearn procedure when the brake pedal has been depressed. This resets transmission adaptation on some models during brake apply". The PDF that is from is about using scan tools to communicate with the car and gives information about the learned adaptive shifting. That might be something to look into, but the tcm also takes a lot of information from other sensors within the transmission itself that may or may not mess with this memory that isn't sticking.
"Kickdown/Kickdown function" confused me, so if it confused you, here's an explanation, and if you already know then no need to read. :)
It describes when automatic transmissions shift to a lower gear when the driver pushes the cars accelerator to the floor. Not as if spongebob was driving and "flooring it" but as if you accelerate from a constant speed in order to pass someone/something. The kickdown function seems to be a function on a scanner tool - presumably one that doesn't just read codes on a calculator screen - that initiates the relearning/resetting.
@@51Faces wow! this is a wealth of information. Thanks for sharing and typing it all out. I really appreciate and hope to dig back into this once it warms up a bit more.