lexus_ba

I did get the CEL - it goes on and off intermittently. I was told some sensor in the exhaust (O2 sensor?) has gone bad. I can't check the fluid level at operating temp because the car doesn't move at all! I just checked it again by starting it up and letting it warm up. After about five minutes, with engine running and cycling through all gears the level was about an inch higher than the hot mark! I will take it to a good tranny shop but what I was asking was that my last sevice shop (which did the 120k service) provided the warranty - and since they overfilled the ATF which led to its damage (persumably) can I hold them responsible? BTW the record shows that they used 4 quarts, so how could the level be so high

I checked the color and it looks brwonish to me :(. So does that mean major transmission work? Secondly, can I hold the service shop responsible for this? They do say in the sevice record that all their repairs are guaranteed for 15 months/15k miles, but this is a side affect of something they did.

I got my car serviced last year at 125K (for 120k mile service). After driving for 9k more miles it stalled at a stop light one day. It felt like the transmission did not engage and the engine would just rev higher on giving gas. Somehow (with more stalls and hiccups) I managed to bring it back to my work parking lot. Since I had one more car I let it sit there for a while. Yesterday I tried starting it up again and the problem still remains. It does not move - however reverse seems to do a bit better than forward gears. It will move slightly when it is cold, but as the engine warms up it stops moving. So I went ahead and checked the tranmission fluid level. To my horror I found it way past hot even when it was cold :o One more thing I noticed was that when started at cold the engine revs a bit higher (around 2k) and makes some strange noise too. As it starts warming up the revs come down to around 1k and the noise disappears. Is my transmission gone? When I checked the last service records I saw that they replaced the transmission fluid, so I have a feeling the idiots over filled it. How serious is it? And does anyone know the exact amount to be filled - I will cross check it against the amount listed in service record? This plain sucks, I am glad my other car is manual. At least I wouldn't have to worry about the transmission - clutch plate maybe, but they are cheap! Thanks in advance!