What causes a GMC Acadia wave plate to fail?

What causes a GMC Acadia wave plate to fail?

GMC has it at 100K IIRC, maybe severe service is at 50K. Something caused your fluid to burn…..a bad waveplate and the heat that it causes. I would go to another dealer. Ask your dealer who said to flush to show you this in the maintenance schedule.

Can a GMC wave plate fail throw a code?

A waveplate failure is not going to throw a code unless the debris causes something else to trip a code. Ask your dealer who said to flush to show you this in the maintenance schedule. GMC has it at 100K IIRC, maybe severe service is at 50K.

Why is my GMC Acadia not shifting properly?

I’m just sick. we make our last payment next month and this dang car is falling apart. was fine (ish) for 4.5 years and the last 6 months have been very frustrating. as of today, add not shifting right to my VERY long list of issues.

What are the symptoms of a broken wave plate?

My symptoms were a slip twice over a hundred miles then tons of slippage. Never needed a tow but I also took it in pretty quick. Presentation seems variable though. On the other end of the spectrum, our friends 07 had a broken wave plate with no forewarning.

GMC has it at 100K IIRC, maybe severe service is at 50K. Something caused your fluid to burn…..a bad waveplate and the heat that it causes. I would go to another dealer. Ask your dealer who said to flush to show you this in the maintenance schedule.

How to prevent a wave plate related transmission issue / failure?

Under GMPP, the dealership had to drop the engine and transmission, and then remove the transmission and split the cases. Since the cases were being split, I had them also replace the 3-5-R plate (actually, it comes in a kit – P/N 24240100, $52.42). Re: How to prevent a wave-plate related transmission issue/failure?

A waveplate failure is not going to throw a code unless the debris causes something else to trip a code. Ask your dealer who said to flush to show you this in the maintenance schedule. GMC has it at 100K IIRC, maybe severe service is at 50K.

I’m just sick. we make our last payment next month and this dang car is falling apart. was fine (ish) for 4.5 years and the last 6 months have been very frustrating. as of today, add not shifting right to my VERY long list of issues.

Is the 35R wave plate going to break?

Its not a matter of it MIGHT break… It WILL break. The 35R wave plaves were not heat treated properly. and will eventually break. From what Ive read- its based on the amount of shifts that take place. THink of it this way…