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Had quite the scare on a dark hilly road the other night. Thought I lost the tranny (actually still may have, just waiting on the local shop to confirm). Anyway, was driving about a mile from my house and felt the trans start to slip when I gave it gas. This is the first time anything like this happened. No prior slipping or issues with gear switching, etc. Always smooth. No lights on the dash, no warning signs at all. Progressively got worse over another 500 feet so I turned around and headed back home, couldn't get it out of first gear and it would rev up and down. Finally got it about .5 mile from my house on a big up hill and it wouldn't go any further... In drive, on the gas but no go. Park is the only gear that seemed to work and the engine ran fine - would shut off and start up with no issues (in park). Got out of the car, fluid all over the road....So, of course first thought is @#$% the tranny is shot! Called tow and got it over to the local shop. Called me yesterday after taking a look and said its not the tranny!!! Said the radiator blew its pressure? fitting at the bottom and all the fluid leaked out which caused loss of pressure and the tranny to act like it did. I'm hoping he knows what he's talking about but that sounds odd to me?? Does this sound legit? It was dark so I couldn't make out the color of the fluid on the road, but he said it was all coolant at his shop... I've read up on line about a similar issue where there is an internal leak of coolant into the trans that causes trans failure, and I brought it up with him; but he insisted that this was an external issue with the radiator. Just having a hard time understanding how loss of pressure in the radiator would cause the transmission to slip and act as it did. Anyone care to explain? Thanks in advance.
BTW, its a 2009 Honda Pilot Ex-L 3.5l 4WD with 196k miles
BTW, its a 2009 Honda Pilot Ex-L 3.5l 4WD with 196k miles