Jinxed myself - tranny dead
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Jinxed myself - tranny dead
Oh well. The other day I mentioned how I haven't seen as many "my tranny died posts" as of late, which is still true...well guess what....mine died over the weekend . I had to drive it in to the dealer today and must say that it was one of the scariest drives I've been on. The tranny just had a mind of its own and would up and downshift whenever. fortunately it was backroads but still.
Anyway, the car will be at the dealer for at least a week, maybe 10 days, and the best they would give me is a fucking corolla. needed to vent. now I hope this is the last tranny and that I can get rid of this car.
Laterz
Anyway, the car will be at the dealer for at least a week, maybe 10 days, and the best they would give me is a fucking corolla. needed to vent. now I hope this is the last tranny and that I can get rid of this car.
Laterz
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Acura of Boston. I bought the car there and have had it serviced there since the beginning. They are so-so nowadays (not too bad) but were better a few years back.
I can't remember the guy's name (Nigel I think) but he used to hook me up. Gave me a TL as a loaner when the first tranny died and even gave me a loaner when I had my accident. Never gave me a problem about my headers. Now the service rep always brings it up. They gave me a defective headlight when they were stolen (I told them it was flickering) and they responded by saying it was because of my bad o2 sensor (because of the OBX crappy quality). after I replaced the O2 and it happened again they checked and found that the ignitor was fuxored and replaced it. They didn't even apologize for being wrong! pissed me off. (end of rant)
So it looks like I will be rolling to the Sunday meet in my corolla! too bad the lug pattern is 5x100 otherwise I'd have put my 18s on that box!
I can't remember the guy's name (Nigel I think) but he used to hook me up. Gave me a TL as a loaner when the first tranny died and even gave me a loaner when I had my accident. Never gave me a problem about my headers. Now the service rep always brings it up. They gave me a defective headlight when they were stolen (I told them it was flickering) and they responded by saying it was because of my bad o2 sensor (because of the OBX crappy quality). after I replaced the O2 and it happened again they checked and found that the ignitor was fuxored and replaced it. They didn't even apologize for being wrong! pissed me off. (end of rant)
So it looks like I will be rolling to the Sunday meet in my corolla! too bad the lug pattern is 5x100 otherwise I'd have put my 18s on that box!
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Well at least they told me they have fixed the problem in all the "new" refurbished trannies
Originally Posted by zeroday
"only a small percentage of 2nd gen tl/cl trannies fail"
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Originally Posted by ferizzo
Well at least they told me they have fixed the problem in all the "new" refurbished trannies
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Originally Posted by ferizzo
not really. upto 100k. after that the dealer can choose to help you or not.
Technically, a dealer is not the one responsible for handling the decision of a goodwill operation. The District Parts and Service Manager (or DPSM) or regional care rep is. The dealer submits the information at the customer's request and they make the final judgement.
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