Mixedgas is ticked. He just forked over his LA LEM money to have the program in his Chevy Equinox transmission reprogrammed by a dealer service department. Why it failed at almost exactly 76,000 miles, right after the 75,000 mile planned service to keep the third party warranty up, is beyond me. Why the dealer had to connect a interface to the factory via the internet is baffling.
So you know, it presents as a valve pack failure or torque lockup converter problem. You find you cannot make it above 60 MPH and it will not shift into overdrive. You need to floor it to about 4000 RPM to get it to shift to get to 65, and then it can't sustain 65. It acts sluggish. There is a service directive out on this, but no mention of it on the public Equinox forums.
Methinks its curious a modern car CPU does not have a cyclic redundancy check or other form of error correction.
Oh well, I should be happy its not a 2400$ replacement transmission. Considering the amount of paperwork and frustration needed to make the warranty claim, I'm going to eat it.
BTW, if you ever need to break into a Equinox, I'll tell you where to break one tiny thing under the hood that will instantly cause all locks to cycle open for hours and then kill the battery by shorting all the lights across it.
Some time when I'm in a better mood, ask me how many clips you need to undo to change a headlight.
Shame on you Chevy.
If the economy ever recovers, Hello Honda! Twice the price but 1/10th the crap to put up with.
Steve