Transmission sometimes slams into Drive

investmentbanker · 07-20-2014, 01:15 AM

Sometimes when I'm parked, when I reverse out of a parking spot, brake to full stop, then put transmission into drive, the car slams into drive. It doesn't happen often but it happens and today it happened. My last visit to dearlship I had a transmission sleeve replaced and I think 2 quarts of transmission fluid added because they found a leak, this was about 2 months ago.

My guess is maybe transmission and motor mount? If thats the case I'm assuming the parts and labor will be thousands? I knew I should have bought an M3 last week.

Forgot to add info on car:

2006 BMW 325i E90 Sedan with Premium and Sport Package
53,333 Miles
Automatic transmission

investmentbanker · 07-23-2014, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by investmentbanker

Sometimes when I'm parked, when I reverse out of a parking spot, brake to full stop, then put transmission into drive, the car slams into drive. It doesn't happen often but it happens and today it happened. My last visit to dearlship I had a transmission sleeve replaced and I think 2 quarts of transmission fluid added because they found a leak, this was about 2 months ago.

My guess is maybe transmission and motor mount? If thats the case I'm assuming the parts and labor will be thousands? I knew I should have bought an M3 last week.

Forgot to add info on car:

2006 BMW 325i E90 Sedan with Premium and Sport Package
53,333 Miles
Automatic transmission

After taking the car to the dealer. Turns out I need to replace my rear bumper. At least its cheaper than new transmission.

Cloud9blue · 07-23-2014, 01:49 PM

WTF? why is rear bumper related to the transmission?

GoRomeo · 07-23-2014, 02:12 PM

yeah I was gonna say the same thing...

Delta0311 · 07-23-2014, 02:17 PM

Had that happen to me twice when I had a E90 328. It felt like the whole damn tranny just fell off the car. In my case it happened when I put in in Reverse though. Happened around 40k miles but car ran fine. Sold it at 94k and the car had no issues.

Delta0311 · 07-23-2014, 02:22 PM

In your case seems like dealer could not duplicate the issue so he's like fuck it lets charge him for a new bumper, and like 1 or 2 hours of labor. Even though it takes like 20min to take the rear bumper off and put a new one on.

Now if you are an investment banker then I hope you where smart enough to know this was a bad investment.

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investmentbanker Private 19 Rep 54 Posts Drives: 2006 BMW 325i Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: United States iTrader: (0)	Transmission sometimes slams into Drive Sometimes when I'm parked, when I reverse out of a parking spot, brake to full stop, then put transmission into drive, the car slams into drive. It doesn't happen often but it happens and today it happened. My last visit to dearlship I had a transmission sleeve replaced and I think 2 quarts of transmission fluid added because they found a leak, this was about 2 months ago. My guess is maybe transmission and motor mount? If thats the case I'm assuming the parts and labor will be thousands? I knew I should have bought an M3 last week. Forgot to add info on car: 2006 BMW 325i E90 Sedan with Premium and Sport Package 53,333 Miles Automatic transmission
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Cloud9blue Brigadier General 711 Rep 3,251 Posts Drives: around the potholes Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: NY/NJ/MA iTrader: (13)	WTF? why is rear bumper related to the transmission? __________________ 09 BMW E92 335i: Top Mount EFR 7670 / Dinan / AP Racing / Wavetrac / TC Kline [Full Mod List] 07 BMW R1200S: Shine Yellow / Akrapovic / Ohlins 19 Volvo V90 T6: R-Design / Bowers & Wilkins / Polestar Optimization
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GoRomeo Brigadier General 976 Rep 3,870 Posts Drives: 330i, 135i Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: San Diego CA iTrader: (0) Garage List 2008 BMW 135i [9.50] 2006 330i [6.75]	yeah I was gonna say the same thing...
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Delta0311 Banned 7478 Rep 10,120 Posts Drives: 2011 BMW 335xi E92 2016 228xi Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NJ iTrader: (1)	Had that happen to me twice when I had a E90 328. It felt like the whole damn tranny just fell off the car. In my case it happened when I put in in Reverse though. Happened around 40k miles but car ran fine. Sold it at 94k and the car had no issues.
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Delta0311 Banned 7478 Rep 10,120 Posts Drives: 2011 BMW 335xi E92 2016 228xi Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NJ iTrader: (1)	In your case seems like dealer could not duplicate the issue so he's like fuck it lets charge him for a new bumper, and like 1 or 2 hours of labor. Even though it takes like 20min to take the rear bumper off and put a new one on. Now if you are an investment banker then I hope you where smart enough to know this was a bad investment.
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