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An auto? Unusual to have this fault in both drive and reverse, as they use different clutches. But slipping in an auto is always bad news.

Best to try a specialist rather than dealer.

I would visit a competent main Jaguar dealer [is there such a thing?] first because they have the computer diagnostic tool which is needed to interrogate the transmission. Whether they have someone who knows how to use and interpret it is another thing. However,I would not delay in case slip causes more expensive problems.

Be warned that a main dealer will not want to open your box [if indeed this is needed] but will want to install an exchange box. You don't expect skilled mechanics for fifty plus Pounds an hour do you?

Huw

heh - my chosen independant has just gone up to 35/hr, last time I used main dealer it was 50/hr after haggling, 75/hr for the hapless...

In London, I'd guess a Jag main dealer would be well over 100 quid an hour.

At that rate it would obviously not pay to piddle around repairing anything that was more than trivial. This means that they can employ even less advanced primates just to remove and replace major assemblies and the customer probably thanks them ever so very much for such fine service.

Service exchange units become so much more attractive to everybody at those labour rates but it does not alter the fact that the situation is ridiculous. Where do those failed assemblies get repaired economically? Do they send them to China or Rumania and back? The rebuilders must have low costs otherwise it would pay to replace failed major assemblies with brand new replacements. Perhaps this practice is now becoming economic, in the same way that it does not pay to repair a smoothing iron because Tesco sells new ones for £7.50.

Huw

Electric clothes iron as used on your crisp working shirts. Especially useful for starched collars ;-)

Huw

Shirts are for weddings and funerals. ;-)

Dashing away

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A couple of years ago my son was showing his baby sister a lift-the-flap book. One picture showed a kitchen cupboard and he described the contents..."Hoover, wellies, broom.....and a surf-board. Dad - why would there be a surf-board in the kitchen cupboard?"

As you can tell - we don't do ironing.

So, is it better to live with it as far as I can, then when it becomes hard to drive, just get the box changed?

If it is actually slipping, it won't be long before it fails totally.

But are you used to autos? As I said, it's unusual for this to happen in both drive and reverse.

Dave is right to question whether you have had the car from new and whether you are used to automatics. There is always torque converter slip at low revs at low forward speeds but if the characteristics have substantially changed recently then there must be a problem either in the torque converter or in the gearbox which will need attention sooner rather than later. The problem with the 'later' option is that it could possibly leave you stranded somewhere.

Huw

Many thanks to all, guess I will get it checked