Stay away from Aamco!!
I had a 78 Dodge Magnum GT with a 727 and I brought it there, Tey rebuilt
it, then on the way home, I was stopped at a light, and when I started to
go, it slowed down and went into reverse all by itself!! This was 3 miles
from where I picked it up. They preceeded to rebuild it 2 more times befire
they got it right and they charged me like $1700. These people are goons.
At 05:46 PM 3/9/01 -0600, you wrote:
>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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>"She has a face that would make an onion cry"
>
>Tom S.
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