Glory be! We finally got my son's car back yesterday! Wonderful. 
However on my way home, my ever faithful Honda would "jack rabbit" during acceleration from a stop. I'm pretty sure it's low on transmission fluid because a misfire is pretty much constant and when the torque converter locks up* it doesn't jump. I'm not always right in my swags, pray that I am right on this one because the solution is add trannie fluid.
* A torque converter is the connecting part between an engine and automatic transmission, it is a hydraulic connection. On modern cars it has a feature called lock up which is a mechanical connection in high gear. It provides better fuel economy because it eliminates the slip of a purely hydraulic connection.

It keeps us humble when we fix one thing and another needs attention.

(01-19-2019, 02:45 PM)IainH Wrote: Glory be! We finally got my son's car back yesterday! Wonderful. 
However on my way home, my ever faithful Honda would "jack rabbit" during acceleration from a stop. I'm pretty sure it's low on transmission fluid because a misfire is pretty much constant and when the torque converter locks up* it doesn't jump. I'm not always right in my swags, pray that I am right on this one because the solution is add trannie fluid.
* A torque converter is the connecting part between an engine and automatic transmission, it is a hydraulic connection. On modern cars it has a feature called lock up which is a mechanical connection in high gear. It provides better fuel economy because it eliminates the slip of a purely hydraulic connection.

Seems like a smaller problem compared to what you had to do for your son's car, no?

(01-19-2019, 03:27 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: It keeps us humble when we fix one thing and another needs attention.

I don't know whether it keeps me humble or not. Can't say it's ever occurred to me..?.!.? "How come, Mr Iain? why?"
 It requires further study because, I've never been in a position where I didn't have something that needs attention. If I did, I would probably break something just to have something that needed doing. This applies to life in general and not just stuff.

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(01-19-2019, 03:31 PM)jaybreak Wrote:

(01-19-2019, 02:45 PM)IainH Wrote: Glory be! We finally got my son's car back yesterday! Wonderful. 
However on my way home, my ever faithful Honda would "jack rabbit" during acceleration from a stop. I'm pretty sure it's low on transmission fluid because a misfire is pretty much constant and when the torque converter locks up* it doesn't jump. I'm not always right in my swags, pray that I am right on this one because the solution is add trannie fluid.
* A torque converter is the connecting part between an engine and automatic transmission, it is a hydraulic connection. On modern cars it has a feature called lock up which is a mechanical connection in high gear. It provides better fuel economy because it eliminates the slip of a purely hydraulic connection.

Seems like a smaller problem compared to what you had to do for your son's car, no?

Si, it's par for the course. The Toyota Highlander my son says is his and I refer to as my sons, actually belongs to his Nana who can no longer drive. She gave it to him to use, which for all intents and purposes means it's his. Nana pays for it's maintenance and everything else and insists on doing so in spite of her daughter s protestations I understand, in principle, how the grandparent/grandkid dynamic works but, have yet to experience that joy.