CAGS?????

[Shannen Durphey]

I just drove a car that had that.  First time.  I came out of an
intersection and went to shift to second, and it didn,t go to second. 
Not realizing what was happening, I was thinking "what the...", moving
back to first to try again for second, and glancing down at the dash. 
Low and behold, there's a small light in the dash that says "1-4
shift".  It felt pretty strange at first.  And the car ended up in
second anyway.  But I thought I'd mention the light...
Shannen

Roger Heflin wrote:
> 
> CAGS *makes* you shift from 1-4 at low TPS to improve gas mileage.
> The solenoid locks out the ability to get the car into 2 or 3.  I
> don't know if on a A4 car it actually needs a load there.  I do
> believe from looking at mine that there is code there for it, it may
> be that the light that informs the driver that cags is not going to
> allow hhim to shift into 2 or 3 is not hooked up so it is getting an
> error.   I don't know if something is hooked up on my A4.  You may
> want to find the prom code that sets that DTC (I have had quite a bit
> of luck doing this and figuring out what it is doing) and see if it is
> checking for 1st gear and tps less that a certain amount then do this.
> Again I don't know if it is hooked up on an A4 car with a dummy
> resistor or not.
> 
>                                 Roger
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 DAVE_HEMPSTEAD at HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > From: steve ravet <steve.ravet at arm.com>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:30:25 +0000
> > Subject: Re: DTC check xmission light
> >
> > I wasn't paying attention to the beginning of the thread so I don't know
> > if this is appropriate...  Later 6 speed F bodies and vettes expect to
> > see a load where the CAGS solenoid is.  Just disconnecting it sets a
> > code, you have to put in a resistor.  Is that what y'all are talking
> > about?
> >
> > - --steve
> >
> > DAVE_HEMPSTEAD at HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestions for both this DTC and where to find a computer.
> > >
> > > I have the MIL light hooked up.  I'll go check which pin on which connector it
> > > goes to.  Before I hooked this light up, I got another DTC that indicated that
> > > the MIL was open.
> > >
> > > This DTC implies that there is a separate 'Check Transmission' light on the
> > > dash, that I need to wire up a dummy resistor to.
> > >
> > > Dave Hempstead
> >
> > Steve,
> >    What is the CAGS solenoid????   That could be it.
> >
> > Thanks for the hint,
> > Dave Hempstead
> >
> >