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3 posts in Car Diagnostics blog about "towing" — OBD-II diagnostics, DTC codes, repair. ← All posts
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Ford Ranger: diesel pickup diagnostics for a working vehicle
Bought to tow and carry, and often used for neither. That mismatch produces most of what goes wrong, and it is visible in two readings.
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Transmission overheating warning: causes and immediate actions
Heat is what kills automatic gearboxes, and the relationship is brutal: every 10 °C above normal roughly halves fluid life. What you do in the next five minutes matters.
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Towing a car with an automatic: why "just a hundred metres" sometimes costs a gearbox
On a manual, towing is a question of having a rope. On an automatic it is a question of the lubrication pump, which only runs with the engine running. The limits and the safe options.