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2017 with 140k miles not shifting into overdrive gears!!

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So I've had the tranny judder issue in the past which was "fixed" with 3x DF... and recently, in the last maybe 20k or so miles, have had some hard shifting, so did another 3x DF which seemed to "fix" the issue.

Well, today, after about 220 miles of freeway driving, I pulled over to fuel up and get some snacks. Getting back onto the freeway I quickly realized that the truck would not shift into overdrive as it just sat at ~3000rpm at ~60mph and did not shift. No error messages on the display. So took the next exit, stopped, and restarted truck. Problem went away.

Dog decided she needed a potty break just 10 minutes after getting back on the road, so exited and shut down the truck for about 5 minutes. When I went to merge back onto the freeway, same issue with not shifting into OD once up to speed and thus I took the next exit and restarted the truck. Went another 30 miles or so and reached my second to last destination of the evening with no issue.

Will be plugging in the scanguage for the last 50 miles of the trip... but any ideas what might be going on? Could this be one of the pressure switches I've been reading about on here?
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and realized I didn't have the right programming in it to be able to tell what gear the vehicle was in. So still need to figure that out.
Here is where I got the codes I used for my 2018, guessing the same for yours. Gear selected is the first one.

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Hopefully it is just the battery!
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Well, what a bummer that it really does appear to be an unfortunate lottery. The fact that it was still happening in 2019 makes it seem that it wasn't just a bad batch of parts, either. I am more inclined to think that the trans is right on the border of not being strong enough for an RL/Pilot and some break it, some don't. Would be really interesting to see what parts are beefed up in the remans that hopefully make them more stout.
I was thinking more like those on the forum who got a replacement trans followed by failure and mentioned it here.
There is only one that I have on my sheet that I track them on. User PericoRandy had a 2017, trans failed at 42k miles and then the replacement failed at 12k miles. Second failure was in 2020, not sure if the first was 2019 or 2020. Obviously many possible things could have caused second failure. Could have been a similar failure to first, could have been poor installation on the first, who knows.

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