k20dream

so lastnight i drove over a median on accident i was going aout 60 mph and i was crusin i ran rite over the median and jumped over to the other side i heard a boom jumped back on the road and continued to go my car is lowerd and 2 mins later at an intersection i stoped the car and it wouldnt go and it was in d5 just the motor reving then i see that i had left a trail of tranny fulid so i pushed it home and it was leaking for a while nutthing but tranny fluid i took a peak this moring to find grass the tranny didnt look damaged from what i can see there was like a metal rod thingy that was damaged and hanging not sure what that is but what could be damaged ?

thelastaspec

could you take some pictures of the damage and upload them to a photo hosting website?

justnspace

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Please, in order for us to help you. You're going to have to describe in GREAT detail what the damage looks like.
Or take pictures.
Or have it towed to a mechanic.

totaledTL

Way more details/pics needed. Pls. try to avoid the run on sentences- it makes it harder to understand your problem. It obviously IS damaged or it would not be leaking & failing to pull itself.

You drove all the way over a median to the other side? Not into opposing traffic, I hope? At this pt. I would be more concerned w/ my driving abilities than the car anyhow.

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

lol.

niju321

also...did you check the trans fluid level?

k20dream

ok thans everybody ill go take pics now ima go jack it up,there no longer is tranny fluid,and no i drove over the meadian and switched over to the other side but thanks guys ill postem up in a few hrs

k20dream

by the way florida public transpotation sucks ass 4 hrs on the bus to get to work

01tl4tl

this demonstrates a good reason to carry full coverage insurance
takes care of acts of stupidity by others (vandals), road debris, or own driver miscue~

JterrorC

iTrader: (1)

now ONE period...just one punctuation..and its a question mark the end...

some ppl hate my dot dot dot... lol...but u make me look good...

ANYWAYS.... my question here is...would the oil pan suffer first since its the lowest of all pans? i cant picture how the tranny case would got a blow and not anything else...


take pics of the damages... it would help you alot...

k20dream

sup guys i took some pictures today and had it towed to a shop.
the mehcanic said i cracked the tranny in a few places ill post pics in a few,he qouted me 2200.53 im 19 and broke lol WTF!!!
i jumped on craiglist and theres a tl tranny 03 type s same as my car for 200 but it needs the clutchs, would the cluthes in my tranny be abel to be swaped out? or would you recomend buying new cluthes ?

k20dream

k20dream

jjashaa

iTrader: (23)

your cracked it.

hopefully you haven't recently replaced the trans...

k20dream

i recently purchased this car,so im not too sure about replacements
also does any one know the price range for a new case for the tranny to swap out my guts into the case and install.id also like to see on avarage replacing cluthes for the tranny and instalation ? thanks guys im stressing out help

piggylover1985

Sorry to hear that my friend. It's obvious that the tranny took a good hit, so the both case halves and valve bodies might need to be replace. Who knows what else is also damaged from the accident. You drove it until it ran out of fluid, that could cause the transmission to overheat and could fried all the clutch packs. So you could bring it to a transmission shop, have them pull it out, tear it down and give you and estimate of how much for the the whole rebuilt, hopefully it's not "FUBAR" (F Up Beyond All Repair), or looking for a good used one with warranty which might be cheaper than rebuild because of the damaged "hard parts". Can also look up car-parts.com, craigslist or local junk yard. If you find a used one, try pulling the drain plug and look at it make sure it doesn't look like a porcupine, which means alot of metal stick to the magnet then the tranny may or will have some problem very soon. Type S uses the same transmission as regular TL, so don't be fool by some seller may tell you the Type S is so special so they can jack up the price on you. Look for the transmission tag for code like B7TA or BGFA something like that, if the code is the same then you're good to go. Good luck.

01tl4tl

piggy is one of the resident trans gurus so I go by his say so on damage/repairs

I didnt see blue bolt heads--did anyone else see them? (old eyes-dont wear my bifocals at computor)

the clutches baked in the 200$ trans,,yes thats exactly what fails-
no, you wouldnt just drop in your clutches...
as if they still existed after fluid ran out and smoke emitted! your clutches are gone dude

but at this point, it might be a deal to get the case and hope it has less internal damage than yours so it can be rebuilt for cheap,,
doubtful- but I dont want to take away all your hope
Chances are it was driven till it stopped too~

ask junkyards/ auto dismantler and recycling for a recently crashed car
There are other options for trans from different acura models that seem to be better trans,,again we run into your current finacial limits

sorry to say- but you may be a very short term TL owner
the car itself- if in good condition- is sellable to someone wanting to do a 6 speed manual trans swap into a TL
Thats getting more popular as these trans fail outside warranty, and the repair cost versus car value gets closer every day

try listing it for sale on our member cars for sale and buy a honda for now

totaledTL

Any updates? What did you decide to do?

k20dream

yeah sorry bout the delay,i decided the cheapiest way out was to buy a used tranny needing clutches off Craigslist.
my mechanic is charging 800 to transfer my trannys internals which luckily turnt out to be less than 6 months old into the tranny with bad clutches. that's for parts and labor minus the tranny(200) on Craigslist so it all came out to be 1000 which i had saved up to go on vacation to cape verde but maybe next year.but tomorrow hopefully i should be picking her up now im motivated,with your guys help i plan on making her super clean !!!! 3g wheels, 5k foggies,im/tb spacer,rear fog,mid-wing,etc ...

piggylover1985

That's very good deal for you, $800 is cheap for the job. Good luck.

HEAVY_RL

iTrader: (1)

Fixed.

Congrats on the repair.

jplasse

^^^^^

k20dream

My happiness has been ruined ={ i got my car on thursday 2 days later on saturday night im driving with some chick and the car does something weird i wasnt driving fast at all,the cel and d5 light were flashing and i guess went in to limp mode ? cuase it wouldnt pass 3x rpms.i guess its bad luck to sex in your car? well im kinda pissed i dumped 1200 and i still have issues i hope this shop will atleast give me 3 days warrenty if not ima light his shop on fire =)

01tl4tl

its probably a simple assembly error-(fingers crossed)-
we may have warned you/others about techs without extensive experience and TL trans, needing 3-5 times to get it put together right~ they put it in - it dies they take it out and apart...try again

hopefully- you go in with a positive attitude- explain how happy you were you went on acurazine and started passing out this guys number!!
Sadly, something....maybe just a wire or external selenoid has failed,,these things happen
or if internal assembly prob- he will take care of it no problem, in order to preserve his good reputation

reminder- in the old days before the internet, a Happy customer told 2 friends--example you saw a movie you liked or went to a good restaurant--you would tell 2 good friends to go enjoy those right?'

and if you had a bad experience,,you would tell 11 people,,total strangers in grocery line would get your opinion,,oh that places suckssssss!!!! dont go there!!!!

Now,,, a happy customer goes online and tells 200 hundred in some web group
and the UNHAPPY customer goes online= in every forum they can find,
and tells 11 MILLION people about their bad experience

the customer isnt always right- but getting the car back working for more than a week- customer has every right to expect years of trouble free service--this trans was apart- should have got anything it needed- if the tech knew what they were doing

and no you didnt hurt it~
putting positive `love vibe` in the car is perfectly acceptable to it
as long as you use a towel

piggylover1985

Hopefully something simple to fix and they won't charge you anything extra. They will have to scan it for code, it would be something in the transmission side. Keep us update of your problem.

01tl4tl

I just read the first post on this again,, was going 60 mph!! when hit a medien.....

that may have put the hurt on internal trans parts- from the shock to the axles
bent something they wouldnt think to inspect?

piggylover1985

They're probably just open the used tranny to use to case only, then they open up the one with a hole in the case and transfer all the parts over and they're done with it.

01tl4tl

is there preload adjustments that could make a noise if not correct?
example, Im thinking rear drive car differential noises,,or crankshaft freeplay/preload

I have no knowledge of the actual internals of the TL trans

k20dream

not sure about the internals but i got my car back today it ended up being my Selinoid was messsed up,i got it replaced for free =D

thewrangler99

MzFitz

Unbelievable...I read this whole thread and I am cracking up. Same thing happened to me (not my TL-Phew) but I was driving on the freeway and a guy in a truck lost his ladder....I had nowhere to go. Ladder went under the car and destroyed the trani, and among other things bent the frame in 3 places. Dude. I hit a ladder. You went over a median. Why don't you get your car checked out at a body shop for frame damage...amongst other things.