My 98 SL2 seems to have trouble down-shifting, or at least it has trouble deciding to down-shift.
When I go up a good sized hill the car boggs down and I give it more throttle to maintain speed. I end up going all the way to the floor before the transmission will do anything and the car violently shifts down 2 or 3 gears.
I have been to the retailer a couple of times for this. They had no answer the first time. The second time I went in they basically told me that the car needed to driven harder (which can't be the case) because of being "carboned-up". It apparantly wasn't giving any codes for whatever is going wrong.
Is there a possibility that there is no tranny problem and it's more a throttle position sensor issue? or maybe another transmission control part?
Any advice would be great.
-- Thanks. Jake