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So I'm heading down the freeway on my way to the Woodworking show when the pickup start to loose speed and the engin is speeding up, I make my way over to the slow lane and the message board tells me that the transmission is overheating. The pickup is emplty and I.m not towing anything. I pulled off the freway and put the truck in park, pull out the owners manual and it say if that happens to the truck to pull over and put it in park, let the engine idle until the message goes away. while it was ideling I checked the transmission and it was 1 qt low on fluid. When the message went out I limped along on surface street until I found an auto parts store. I put the qt in and tried it out still no luck. I only have 1st and 2nd gear. I limped along and took it to the dealer. It's a 2005 Silverado with 49,500 miles. The book says to service the transmission at 50k miles. I had serviced at 25k. Fortunatly I have 100,000 mile warantee and the drive train so I am without a truck. The underwriter at the dealer offered me a ride home but I called LOML and she was at the mall right next to the dealer so I didn't need the ride home. So I guess I won't make it to the ww show this year..
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