Odd Shuddering Sound During Gear Change

[berzerker]

hi all

Was roosting a VL turbo which I always seem to see on my way home, and as I took my exit was pretty hard on the brakes in 3rd gear (BA Auto 4 speed in sports mode) and as I was braking went to change from 3rd to 2nd but accidently threw it into 4th instead. Not real loud but noticable shudder sound possibly from gearbox, sound pretty bad... gave it a decent squirt after I turned off the exit to see if anything seemed broken, but ran normally.

Probably nuthin but car dont seem to like changing into lower gear while hard on brakes..

[Full Monty]

Dont manually downshift the 4 speed auto, its okay to do it provided the roadspeed is low enough for the gear you want to go into Downshifting at higher revs, and making the box decellerate the car...say down shifting to 2nd whilst doing 100kph, is bad for the bands in the box.

I always let the car slow to corner entry speed before selecting the gear to accelerate out with.

Edited 19/02/08 12:26 AM by Full Monty