# Service bulletin 3253

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10017096
- Published by NHTSA: 2005\-10\-24
- Manufacturer's number: 3253
- Replaces: 3253B
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION

## NHTSA's summary

VEHICLE WILL NOT MOVE IN EITHER DIRECTION. TRANSMISSION MAY SHOW OVER FULL. P90 4T40E 4T45E NO MOVEMENT DRIVE OR REVERSE. CONVERTER MAY BE EMPTY OF FLUID. \*TT

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Transmission and driveline, Automatic transmission

## Vehicles listed

- 1996 to 1998 BUICK SKYLARK
- 1996 to 2005 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
- 2005 to 2006 CHEVROLET COBALT
- 2004 to 2006 CHEVROLET MALIBU
- 1978 CHEVROLET MALIBU CLASSIC
- 2004 to 2005 CHEVROLET MALIBU CLASSIC
- 2004 to 2006 CHEVROLET MALIBU MAXX
- 1996 OLDSMOBILE ACHIEVA
- 1998 OLDSMOBILE ALERO
- 1999 to 2004 OLDSMOBILE ALERO
- 1997 to 1999 OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS
- 1996 to 2005 PONTIAC GRAND AM
- 1996 to 2005 PONTIAC SUNFIRE
- 2005 to 2006 SATURN ION
- 2005 to 2006 SATURN VUE

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [14V224000](/recalls/nhtsa/14V224000.md), 2014-04-30: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:LEVER AND LINKAGE:FLOOR SHIFT; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [10285B](/bulletins/10250096.md), 2024-02-12, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\). Vehicle Vibration \- Reprogram Powertrain Control Module
- [14152A](/bulletins/10247338.md), 2023-12-18, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. Transmission Shift Cable Fracture
- [10285B](/bulletins/10246583.md), 2023-12-11, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\). Vehicle Vibration \- Reprogram Powertrain Control Module
- [06\-00\-89\-031D](/bulletins/10201098.md), 2021-09-07, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION; POWER TRAIN; ENGINE. OEM and Remanufactured Engine and Automatic Transmission/Transaxle Identification
- [06\-00\-89\-031D](/bulletins/10190503.md), 2021-04-20, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION; ENGINE. OEM and Remanufactured Engine and Automatic Transmission/Transaxle Identification
- [1308116001F](/bulletins/10183782.md), 2020-12-07, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. The intent of this technical bulletin is to identify aftermarket ALDL or DLC interface devices as potential sources for causing multiple customer concerns that do not have other diagnostic methods to identify them.
- [19NA134](/bulletins/10163250.md), 2019-07-29, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:GEAR POSITION INDICATION \(PRNDL\). This informational bulletin informs the technician and provides a Service Procedure to correct a shifter sticking or Difficulty selecting Desired Gear condition, possibly caused when field action 14152 was previously performed.
- [09\-07\-30\-018D](/bulletins/10139036.md), 2018-06-04, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT. This informational bulletin provides a revision for 09\-07\-30\-018C to add the 2014 model year and update the Labor Operation.
- [08\-05\-22\-009D](/bulletins/10138704.md), 2018-05-29, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. This bulletin directs to 08\-05\-22\-009C
- [01\-00\-89\-010J](/bulletins/10138197.md), 2018-05-21, Service bulletin: ENGINE; SERVICE BRAKES; EQUIPMENT; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. This informational bulletin provides a revision for 01\-00\-89\-010I to add the 2013 model year.

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