Hello everyone, I am a long time lurker of these forums and I have had an issue for a month that I have not been able to sort and was hoping someone could give me some insight. Hope everyone is well and safe
2005 BMW X3 E83 2.5L
220,000km or ~137,000 miles
Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Have had this vehicle for about 3 years and fixed a lot of issues with the help of you guys.
I drove it about 2 months ago and it was driving fine. I replaced the steering wheel and disconnected the battery in the process because I had to disconnect the air bag. After I put everything back together and drove it, it was fine. But after a few days when I was driving it it started shifting a little hard. I came to a stop and when I started accelerating it shifted into 2nd and when shifting into 3rd it jumped and threw a trans light on the dash and went into limp mode. Now I tried driving it a little bit in this condition and it seemed to be stuck in gear. It would take a long time to come up to speed and it would not shift. When I pulled over and turned the car off for about 5 minutes it fixed itself. But if I drove a little aggressive it would happen again. On the contrary, if I accelerated slowly it would shift through all the gears.
Now this is consistent problem. Anytime I try to accelerate a little harder it will reoccur and be put into limp mode.
My first idea was that it was low on trans fluid, I never noticed a leak but I thought I would check so I checked and it was properly full. I checked on my own little obd2 tool and i pulled codes
P2096
P0141
P0140
After some research I wasn’t confident that caused my limp mode problems. So I took it to a local Indy and pulled these trans codes on his snap on scanner
149 CAN: wheel speed signal
52 Gear monitoring 2
145 CAN: engine intervention.
He was busy so he wasn’t able to properly diagnose the issue and I haven’t had the chance to go back yet but he’s an old school mechanic, not great with these type of issues. He said maybe a wheel speed sensor. He could be right, I don’t know.
If anyone could help I would appreciate it greatly
Cheers
2005 BMW X3 E83 2.5L
220,000km or ~137,000 miles
Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Have had this vehicle for about 3 years and fixed a lot of issues with the help of you guys.
I drove it about 2 months ago and it was driving fine. I replaced the steering wheel and disconnected the battery in the process because I had to disconnect the air bag. After I put everything back together and drove it, it was fine. But after a few days when I was driving it it started shifting a little hard. I came to a stop and when I started accelerating it shifted into 2nd and when shifting into 3rd it jumped and threw a trans light on the dash and went into limp mode. Now I tried driving it a little bit in this condition and it seemed to be stuck in gear. It would take a long time to come up to speed and it would not shift. When I pulled over and turned the car off for about 5 minutes it fixed itself. But if I drove a little aggressive it would happen again. On the contrary, if I accelerated slowly it would shift through all the gears.
Now this is consistent problem. Anytime I try to accelerate a little harder it will reoccur and be put into limp mode.
My first idea was that it was low on trans fluid, I never noticed a leak but I thought I would check so I checked and it was properly full. I checked on my own little obd2 tool and i pulled codes
P2096
P0141
P0140
After some research I wasn’t confident that caused my limp mode problems. So I took it to a local Indy and pulled these trans codes on his snap on scanner
149 CAN: wheel speed signal
52 Gear monitoring 2
145 CAN: engine intervention.
He was busy so he wasn’t able to properly diagnose the issue and I haven’t had the chance to go back yet but he’s an old school mechanic, not great with these type of issues. He said maybe a wheel speed sensor. He could be right, I don’t know.
If anyone could help I would appreciate it greatly
Cheers
