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My lovely auto tranny

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First up, I'm glad to be apart of this forum, I'm a new BMW E46 owner and my trim is the 2000 328ci. I purchased the car for $1,200 from my cousin, it has 185,000 on the total car, the engine was swapped out so the engine in the car has about 40,000 less...

He also said the transmission was rebuilt...

I have no maintenance records for the car, I really wanted an E36 but had to buy this one because I needed transportation to work desperately.

So far the car runs pretty good, all the key things that should work work... Except the tranny.

Problems:

It goes into safe mode if I go over 65mph or over 4,000 rpm...
It does not stay in 5th gear, and being on the highway to work in 4th gear is not exactly ideal for gas...
I talked to him about it, he insists that it's just a computer problem...

My fellow E46 owners, thoughts and suggestions please...
 
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