Thanks for the link SlickGT1 - made for very interesting reading and could be the road I must travel... Not too sure I want to take this path at this early stage of ownership, as I'm enjoying the ride too much at the moment to park the car up for any length. It's winter here now and as the wet weather progresses I may bite the bullet and pull the transmission apart to investigate, swap-out the solenoids etc. and revert to 'another' car as a daily... that said, my wife would not be impressed if I started to pull the X apart after only 4 months of ownership... I can hear her now "you haven't bought another lemon have you"?..."why are you pulling this car apart already"?..."here we go again"... So to keep the peace, I'll live with the transmission as is for a while, then delve into the problem when I've researched all possibilities, sourced parts and prepared my workshop for the task.

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