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Eriksson Industries Posted by Ari [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Automatic transmission failed after 178,000 miles, Robert Lewicki, Sun, 9 May 2004 10:06:02 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
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I agree with Saabjockey - do an evaluation of your car. If it's in decent shape other than the blown tranny, then a rebuilt tranny is a good idea - You'd have a car with a known history and a fresh transmission. Yes, you'd have more money in the car than it could be sold for, but it's a car, not a financial instrument or a government bond. It's supposed to lose money.
If you only had $3K to invest, I'd buy a tranny if the car is otherwise sound. What's the other option - $100 junk value for the present car, and with $3100 in hand, go out in search of another car. Anything else you get for that money has a high probability of going blooie in the next few months, and you're back to zero.
However, if you're looking for a reason to get into that nice new WidgetMobile that you've been eying, then this is the time.
This won't make you feel any better, but for future reference, when an automatic tranny loses something important, (like a gear), stop driving it. The fact that something isn't working is usually a sign that parts of that something are now floating around inside the tranny, looking for a nice place to lodge and break something else. Your tranny may not have been saveable after D went away, but continuing to drive it was a guarantee of a catastrophic failure. Parent mode off.
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