Service light and maybe transmission mystery on a 2000LS

#11

On Dec 21, 3:56 pm, <IYM> wrote:

Quote:

I'm not sure where the "dan's" came in... I remember it as "The Route of the
Dashing Commuter"...

Here's a quick link for ya...

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1986/dashingdan4jm.jpg

IYM
(who lives in Yaphank)

"Oppie" <bop... (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in messagenews:_MUaj.13$yC6.4 (AT) trndny05 (DOT) ..
Why did I recall hearing on the NY radio, something about the silver snail
related to the LIRR? Maybe my mind is starting to go. Dashing Dans does
ring a bell.

Ok, so I google for silver snail LIRR and get a few hits.

December 14th, 2007 Perhaps the dreadful LIRR could learn from this. Its
president, Helena Williams, has stated that customer service is a
priority. Why then, did she eliminate express trains on the Babylon branch
on the weekends? This takes away from the service for everyone east of
Babylon. They now have to change to a "silver snail" which takes 70
minutes instead of the previous 52 minutes from Babylon to Penn Station.
Welcome back to 1910! - Posted by Robert Huemmer
I remember the logo, never realized it said "Dashing Commuter." Not

too catchy. Dan was the man, i guess unofficially. Never saw the
Dashing Dottie before. That seems to be official. In those days very
few women commuted. Now every household has two paychecks to maintain
what used to be done on one. Progress!

Quote:

on page
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/mta-expands-service-on-n...

"byrdsfan" <byrds... (AT) mailandnews (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:724578e5-1e47-46bf-9a36-1b68a76edb4e (AT) q3g2000hsg (DOT) googlegroups.com...

I've heard of Dashing Dans but not Silver Snails.
Yesterday the light and the thumps appeared during the day but not at
night.
I work nights and the area where i live (fairly far out) doesn't get
much service that late. I do it when the weather's iffy, more now than
before. Basically i would get home an hour later if i took the train.
Besides there's nothing like driving around Manhattan looking for
parking. I'm getting to know the people at the tow pound.

#12

In an attempt to get this back on track and i dont mean railroad
tracks:

Other day my friend and his wife were in the car. They have the same
2000 LS as me, they liked mine and bought one. They have had problems
with the service light and transmission for some time. The symptoms
are a little different. It doesnt happen as regularly as mine and it
usually happens when the weather changes. Repeated visits to Saturn
service did not help. She even waited until the light came on and then
drove it to Saturn and even then they could not figure it out. I had
thought of doing that but now i guess i wont.
With me it's car runs fine until service light comes on, then the
transmission starts to buck (for lack of a better word). This only
happens after the car has run at highyway speed for at least a half
hour and the hits the side streets. That's when light comes on and the
tranny gets rough. With my car this doesnt happen every time but close
to it. Car is still driveable, obviously. Just hesitant.
THanks.

#13

One problem is to determine whether the transmission bucking is due to
engine being in limp home mode (which makes for rough and abrupt shifts at a
higher than normal shift point) or something actually with the transmission
or powertrain control module/senosrs/valves. Any service organization worth
their salt should be able to repeat your drive cycle with a scanner attached
to record data that preceedes any code.

Aside from that - Happy New Year <Hic>
Oppie

"byrdsfan" <byrdsfan (AT) mailandnews (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

In an attempt to get this back on track and i dont mean railroad
tracks:

Other day my friend and his wife were in the car. They have the same
2000 LS as me, they liked mine and bought one. They have had problems
with the service light and transmission for some time. The symptoms
are a little different. It doesnt happen as regularly as mine and it
usually happens when the weather changes. Repeated visits to Saturn
service did not help. She even waited until the light came on and then
drove it to Saturn and even then they could not figure it out. I had
thought of doing that but now i guess i wont.
With me it's car runs fine until service light comes on, then the
transmission starts to buck (for lack of a better word). This only
happens after the car has run at highyway speed for at least a half
hour and the hits the side streets. That's when light comes on and the
tranny gets rough. With my car this doesnt happen every time but close
to it. Car is still driveable, obviously. Just hesitant.
THanks.

#14

In article <b35062da-bfbd-4646-a6be-
8200b2b6bf1b (AT) m34g2000hsf (DOT) googlegroups.com>, byrdsfan (AT) mailandnews (DOT) com
says...

Quote:

That's when light comes on and the
tranny gets rough

If you don't ask for the codes, and you don't provide us the codes, then
no one here can even begin to help you...

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