yep you are right
my stupidity for not mentioning all "unrelated" symptoms
but ive learned now

car is back, trans is useable, but 1-2 is a bit rough
hopefully i can get a few years before having to find a used tranny

if this happens in 10% of gen3 then corporate really should take care of it

 

Yeah, there's enough of them bursting out there. I just installed my Tru-cool 4454 aux tranny cooler yesterday and bypassed the stock one in the radiator completely.