Chrysler Repair: 95 electronic trans axle rebuilt but still limps, solenoid pack, chrysler cirrus

Question
I own a 95 Chrysler cirrus 2.5 automatic. It has been in and out of the shop for over 3 month and $2600 later and it is still doing the same thing. it goes into limp mode. we have rebuilt the transmission, put in a main computer, TMC, cylenoid pack, rewired and checked senors on air valve. It is still in the shop and we don't know what is wrong with it. I feel that they are just guessing as to what could be wrong with it....can you please help me? do you know what is going on with my car. I have no more money to put into the car... I am sure that this car is not even worth the money that has already been put into it...

Answer
Hi Jillian,
I smell incompetency at the repair shop. If the transmission has been rebuilt and the transcomputer replaced along with the solenoid pack and it still 'limps' then they haven't done the right job or done the job right.
I would suggest two things:
Look under the hood in the engine compartment for the electical power box that is long and thin (runs from front to back) and starts just behind the radiator. It is the middle one of three such boxes. Open its lid and find the front-most relay (cubical shaped component) in a row of relays that run from the front to the rear on the driver-side of the box. That front relay is the transmission control relay. Look at the numbers on the relay, then compare it to numbers on the rest of the relays in the row. If you find that the numbers agree between it and the 3rd, 4th, or 5th relay, then choose one of those to exchange places with that front relay. Pull straight up and the relay will come out of its socket. If the numbers of the 3rd/4th/5th relays don't agree then forget this idea. But if you can do that, give it a try and see if that solves the problem.
What I am suggesting is that this front-most relay is the one that powers the transmission electronic controls. If the transmission needs to go into limp mode as a self-protective strategy it does so by turning off that relay. BUT, the relay could be weak and turning itself off, which is just like going into limp mode for no reason. So this manuever would test that hypothesis.
Second, I would take the car to an Autozone parts store, or if there is not one nearby, go to another independent shop, and ask for a free fault code readout (at Autozone) or for under $40 (at an independent shop). Ask for the 4-digit fault code numbers that they will obtain by plugging a code reader into a socket that is under the dash adjacent to the steering column. If any of the codes are faults related to the operation of the transmission we'll go on from there. If this is a valid limp-mode situation, there has to be a fault code stored in the memory of the TCM. After all the work/$ spent on the transmission there should be no fault codes related to it or it wasn't repaired properly.
You may have a small claims court remedy in your future, but let us see what we can do now for free or no more than $40.

Roland

PS: Thanks for the rating of my answer, in advance. Very kind of you!