I honestly don't know, the car was a 2002, this was in 2007. I bought it used a year before (from by father). IIRC it had 115k miles on it when I bought it. I've been able to get another 60k on it since then.
I've never quite bought the "chip fried" line. My suspicion at the time was that this was a frequent issue that they were trying to keep somewhat under wraps (hence the near-free repair), but now I am wondering if there was a firmware issue that they fixed by reflashing something.
That or they couldn't find the issue and it resolved itself when they reset something...
I wish I had pressed for more details, but I was mostly just happy the transmission hadn't killed itself.
I honestly don't know, the car was a 2002, this was in 2007. I bought it used a year before (from by father). IIRC it had 115k miles on it when I bought it. I've been able to get another 60k on it since then.
I've never quite bought the "chip fried" line. My suspicion at the time was that this was a frequent issue that they were trying to keep somewhat under wraps (hence the near-free repair), but now I am wondering if there was a firmware issue that they fixed by reflashing something.
That or they couldn't find the issue and it resolved itself when they reset something...
I wish I had pressed for more details, but I was mostly just happy the transmission hadn't killed itself.