ok when I first bought this car in mid July 2011 the guy told me that his daughter owned this car and didn't want it anymore due to the fact of it sometimes staying in neutral for a sec or two in drive and told me it needed a torque converter to get fix would cost $300 bucks plus labor.... but i don't want to sit here and pay all the money and it doesn't need it at all and ever since it had it tends to do that when I'm driving a lot if i parked the car turn off and come back to start it up it will go in any other gear but if i put it in drive it stays in neutral for a sec and clicks over to go doesn't idle anywhere i go or give me no problem in speed its has 158,000 miles on the car just want to know already got it a transmission flush told me the fluid was burnt/dark i like this car alot and gas is alright but its going to cost me a lot to fix that problem i don't even want to bother putting any money in it so if someone can help me and tell me what it is !!!!

I have had this car for almost 9 long years, the first transmission went out at 72,000 miles, when it was still under the extended warranty (that warranty more than payed for itself!) Now 100,000 miles later, it is slipping in 4th gear again. These are throwaway transmissions, they have dipstick, or even an easy way to add fluid! The manual says it is filled for life and the fluid never needs to be changed, which in my opinion is total crap. It has been nothing but problems since 30,000 miles. The only reason I kept this vehicle this long is from putting money into my house, but the time is coming very soon to kiss this lemon goodbye.

Pontiac Grand-ams suck asshole. I've had this car for not even two years. Me and my boyfriend went on this website to see what all went wrong with this car because my transmission is currently going bad. It won't go up hills or in reverse, i have to drive in third gear and even that doesn't work. As i read through all the problems and complaints i realized i have had every single thing listed wrong with my piece of sh*t thing you would call a car. I've put countless amount of money into it and it still doesn't work like a car should. I will get something fixed and two months later the same thing will go bad. I'm buying a 1994 Integra off of a friend and looked for problems on those, there is one, which is nothing compared to this car. I dream about lighting this car on fire. Tell everyone you know, do not buy a Pontiac unless your dream is to put thousands of dollars into a sh*t car.

I only saw one or two other people mentioning this problem so i want to put it out there to see if anybody else is having this issue and how you might have fixed it. It seems as though my transmission it about to give out. when switching gears to put my car into Drive from Park my car feels as though it's in neutral and will rev. but not go anywhere, then it will all the sudden kick in and catch but without switching gears myself it will feel as though it slips back into neutral when I'm idling, I get to a red light just fine, stop, idle, and then give it gas and it feels like it's back in neutral. I'll be taking my car in soon to get this check out more in depth but it's scary sometimes. And it usually happens when I'm on uneven ground, on a hill, usually facing up hill. NOT COOL!

Update from Jun 8, 2009: I had my tranny checked two weeks ago and my mechanic told me that he saw quite a bit of build up and black stuff in the tranny tank. This is bad! This means that my tranny is about to go now after I just got my gasket leak fixed less then a year ago. I'm trading this car in ASAP before it is worthless!