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This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that may have a planetary gear whine noise in first and second gear. Technician should compare the noise to a like vehicle. Technician will need to check the build date of the transmission, if it was built after 09/01/2003 and it is determined that a vehicle has an abnormal amount of noise, perform the rear unit end play check. Technician will replace the output planetary gear set if end play is out of specification. The transmission assembly will need to be replaced if the end play is with in specification.

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Source

Source: NHTSA Manufacturer Communications — Communication from a manufacturer to dealers (summary published by a government agency)
Reporter type: Manufacturer
Source reference: 10112681
Country / market: US
Language: en
Document version: Version 2 (2 held)
Note on the source: US federal government dataset of communications manufacturers sent to dealers. NHTSA publishes a summary of each communication, not its full text.

Dates

Incident date: Unknown
Received by source: 2017-08-15
Added to the source's file: 2017-08-15
Issued / published: 2012-12-17
First observed: 2026-10-05 02:21 UTC (initial bulk load)
This version fetched: 2026-10-05 03:49 UTC