I have a 1998 Buick Century Custom with a 3.1 V6 engine With 99,500 miles. My Service Engine light came on & it has a code P1870 which from what I have read indicates transmission slippage. I took the car to a transmission shop & the technician took it for a road test using his hand held computer analyzer.
everything checked out ok so he reset the code & told me to continue driving it & to bring it back if the trouble returned. After driving about 700 miles the light came back on & has the same P1870 code. I have not had the transmission serviced so I asked if he thought that might cure my problem & he told me it would probably a waste of money & if the trouble came back it would probably need rebuilding at a cost of $1800.00 The transmission operates perfectly. Do you think a transmission service might cure the problem.
Thanks,
Robert Joyner
everything checked out ok so he reset the code & told me to continue driving it & to bring it back if the trouble returned. After driving about 700 miles the light came back on & has the same P1870 code. I have not had the transmission serviced so I asked if he thought that might cure my problem & he told me it would probably a waste of money & if the trouble came back it would probably need rebuilding at a cost of $1800.00 The transmission operates perfectly. Do you think a transmission service might cure the problem.
Thanks,
Robert Joyner
May 10, 2007 at 12:35 PM