1.9

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
83,000 miles

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problem #1

Jun 152001

Suburban

  • Automatic transmission
  • 83,000 miles
"check engine soon" light comes on after short highway drive (about 30 minutes). Then transmissions shifts hard from 1st to second gear, associated with a hard clunk when finally it shifts. Dealer has replaced a "'spring" with a heavier duty one, but fix is temporary. Code 1870 shows up as diagnosis at dealer. L60E transmissions are the culprit.

- New Bern, NC, USA