Thanks for the Advice TheTuna
O.D. has now been turned on as of tomm morning lol
the guy who said about his Sebring 'skipping 3rd gear' I can relate to that.
Mine seems like it does the same thing.
but I just thought about another question... ^_^
TheStory: One day i was driving and the battery light came on .. it was pretty dark and i turned on my high beams
the engine went haywire it red-lined rev'd the car jolted and my cd player shut off.
Things seemed to kept goin down hill
The next thing i new my car wouldnt start right
Me and My dad opened the hood and noticed corosion(sp?) all over the terminals
so we cleaned them up and wow it started
He then told me that my ground wires were bad.
so after all this I have to ask this.
---> Can A bad Ground have anything to do with the Transmission?
fyi. --> I found out that the girl who owned this car traded it in for a celica
I talked with her b/f and he said they believed he thought the tranny was going out.
He and her both drive like nut cases they beat on their celica.. such a waste of a decent car i think.

I know nothing of the previous service done to this Avenger other then a "software upgrade"
which I found and read under the hood by the headlight