I was driving in stop and go traffic downtown. We drove around in circles because there's lots of construction, both road and building. We were just sightseeing.

On the way back home, vanny did not want to go fast over the bridge. It didn't want to do over 40 and it didn't seem to want to switch gears. The rest of the drive home I couldn't go fast anyway due to traffic, but I could sense something was weird. When I'd take my foot off the gas, van slowed down rapidly. By the time, I was home I smelled something not quite burning but definitely overheated, so I drove van to the garage immediately because it was late Thursday and I didn't want to put it off till Monday. (Cause I KNOW how slack I am once van is parked.)

The transmission did switch gears on that part of the drive but I still had the problem with the speed going to zero quickly when I released the gas. The mechanic doesn't do transmissions so he gave me a phone number and told me to go home. When I cranked up the van, the brake pedal had no resistence at all, so I decided to leave it with him to check over instead of getting into a wreck driving home.

He called me up the next day and said they couldnt find anything wrong. The tranny was fine and the brakes good. I was leaning towards transmission on the drive home, but now I'm thinking that maybe the brakes were overheated. Any thoughts?