Contact consumer affairs and submit a complaint. My wife has done it a
couple of times. Make sure you let Aamco know that you've contacted
the Consumer Affairs Dept. They may have a change of heart, but if
not, Consumer Affairs will be contacting them ragarding your complaint.
You should also contact the Aamco head office and let them know the
situation. Aamco is a franchise(atleast the one near me is)and
contacting the franchise office will usually gain results.
Al
"Tom (Silver89)" 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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>
> Tom S.
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