how much do you owe them at this point? I don't know what you can do about
the tranny, but if you torch the place you'll feel better about it.
Patrick Delgado
> From: "Tom (Silver89)" <SilverEightynine@aol.com>
> Organization: Twisted Bits Internet Services
> Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:46:13 -0600
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: DML: Aamco Trans Ripped Me Off (long)
>
> Hi everyone - I need input - heres the story
>
> About a year ago I started having trans problems - they kept getting
> worse - but because I could still drive it in the city with minimal
> trouble I figured I would wait.
>
> Well now I need it for a road trip and I go to get the trans taken care
> of. I take it to a shop where I know the guys well - and he has a 96 3
> speed auto w/od. 800 bucks installed - used trans. says its solid.
> But he comes back and says the 96 wont work with my 89. I asked a
> couple DMLers and they said it would. Well the guy at the shop says
> hes working ona couple cars now with trans problems. To stop by later
> on. Well this past Tuesday the 6th, I decided I want going to wait -
> and I took it to an Aamco - just for an estimate. They said it would be
> $969 for a basic rebuild. Not including anything else. I thought it
> was a fair price so I said go ahead with it Today they get back to me
> and say the overdrive gears and everything need to be replaced. I knew
> the overdrive was bad - but he originally told me that the overdrive may
> still be good. And told me somthing along the lines of that there was
> possibly some other reason why the overdrive was not working. Oh yeah
> - the symptoms were reverse gear slipping and making grindng sounds...
> and the over drive would not work - it was for a time, lurching whenever
> it went into OD as if it wasnt getting any power from the engine all of
> a sudden. And then just recently it klunked and it was grinding - but I
> could still accelorate. (I was driving with the OD turned off every
> time I drove it)
>
> Now they said that to get new overdrive - it would cost 1$800 - to have
> them rebuild it would cost $1125. That would be in ADDITION to the
> $969 basic rebuild, plus about $229 for a torque conv. The grand total
> would be $2386.75
>
> Well I'm not an expert with transmissions - but I knew this was wrong.
> And so far everyone I have talked to - including the shop where I was
> originally going to take it... has said they are taking me to the
> cleaners.
>
> I need opinions here... I need to know what course of action to take
> next.
>
> Oh I left out some important detail. I called aamco - and told them that
> the people I have talked with say its way too much. I said I'm not sure
> I want you guys to finish the job. He says - well I'm not sure I want
> to finish it! I said back well thats a real nice attitude to have with
> your customers! I told him it was nothing personal - but I have to
> look out for myself here. he was going on and on about how he could
> use parts from Tiewan and stuff like tha - but they yse quality parts,
> they have to pay higher prices for parts - the over drive parts are
> expecive - somthing about the plantery gear... UGH
>
> What the devil do I do????
>
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>
> Tom S.
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