[Racer Z]

My car is currently in the shop for this problem. I have 1113 miles in it and should have more info from the dealer tomorrow. When I spoke with the service advisor he said another car just left yesterday with the same problem. Should I wait to get my car back and test it for a week or so before answering the poll?

PistolPete, I'd suggest you give it a good long test drive before voting.
That's just based on some others' experiences here.
Hoping you can call it "fixed". Fingers crossed for you.

Whether it's been fixed or not isn't really the point of this thread, is it? The fact that the individual car has experienced transmission problems is more to the point, correct?

 

[Racer Z]

Does anybody have a picture of the TCU shield?
Or even better, a part number?

I think @Docron posted a few a few years back.

 

[Racer Z]

If your car is a Launch Edition car it will have a LE number plate showing its place in the number of cars that are LEs. Mine for example is #498 of the 500 sold in North America. It is noted on a special number plate on top of your center console. If you don't have a LE you won't have one. Another way to find out if you car is a LE is to look for the side ducts on the front bumper near the headlights. The cars that aren't LE won't have that. If you go to my garage here on the Forum you can see a picture of my car and compare to yours for that detail. The very last run of cars for 2018 may have that duct added only in carbon fiber....it was listed as an option (pricey).

Right. And the only other feature that sets the LE aside from the 'regular' cars is that the interior piping is color matched to the body color. This is a hard one to spot really.

As to the TCM shield, my LE does not have one, is four years old and has lived out-of-doors for most of her life. I drive in the rain and wash her with water. I don't seem to have any issues because I don't have the shield.

 

[Racer Z]

I forgot an important piece of info. The code that they chased down was P1CCO-OO - "Hydraulic Pump Stuck Off". That was the extent of the information Alfa provides in their manuals.


RacerZ - my tech actually talked to yours way back when we began the hunt, and it turned out my car already had that flash update. I can't remember - did they replace your tranny, too?


Sorry for all the typos in my previous post. Did it on the fly at an airport.

No tranny replacement. Replaced the transmission high pressure pump and later the pump voltage regulator. Checked tons of stuff and eventually patched the TCM software. Seems to be working fine. Have many thousands of miles on it since.

edit: I need to add that I had a different PC error code.