1997 Jimmy overview

[BlazerLT]

Originally Posted by skidude

It's funny you said that because I have changed shops ever since last summer...lol. I felt I was getting screwed too.

Did they give you a kiss and take you out for dinner before they screwed you.

I kid. I kid....

[skidude]

I got the picture the last time I went there. My transmission wasn't shifting properly. From a stop I had to push down half way on the gas pedal to get it to move. At 100 km/hr it was at 3000 instead of 2200. They wanted to replace all the solinoids in the transmission. 750.00. I started to do some reseach and had another mechanic replace the ignition switch. 35.00 later, problem solved. It was a wire from the ignition switch to the fuse that powered the solinoids. Poor connection at ignition switch.

[BlazerLT]

Yip, the curse of the 1997 ignition switch strikes again.

[Blue99JimmyEnvoy]

Had something like that with a mechanic once. Bad throttle response & sticking. He said it needed a tuneup. I checked the throttle body, and like a few other posts I saw here gunk/carbon/crap had built up on the butterfly. 45 minutes and a can of cleaner fixed her right up!

Gotta watch some of them, glad I've found a new one that I can trust.