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transmission maintenance
Regarding the discussion on transmission flush vs conventional servicing: I have had the transmission flushed on two vehicles; a 95 Chev. Prism and a 94 Dodge Grand Caravan. These two were performed several years apart and at different service centers. In both case the transmission seals began to leak almost immediately. On the Prism it was a $100 plus to repair and on the Van it was $400.00
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we need a federal law that says if the manual advises,"no need for periodic maintenance on this fine sealed system," that the home address and phone number of the engineer(s) who make the system sealed should be provided... and it should be updated on a recall-type basis when he/she/it moves.
this blatant nonsense really hacks me off.
(I am in the same boat, I have the GM 4T40E.)
cutehumor: it sounds good to me!
Yup-add this to your new car check off sheet-does this sucker have a tranny drain plug. Value engineering can do some awful harm.
I was thinkin maybe it was a conspired plan to get people into buying more cars due to dying trannys. the prices of new vehicles are skyrocketing!
I don't like it when they design failure points in.
That was about $40 for the fluid, filter and gasket and about $50 for the labor. Of course it has been in the mid 20's here.
I had him change my cooler lines too since they were leaking. (BTW, this was the real reason I took the car in.) That was another $90, just about the same breakdown for parts and labor.
This is on an 87 LeSabre and was about 31K since I had the tranny overhauled in Oct 01.
I'm hoping the next 30K will end in the spring of 2004. I'll probably drop the pan myself and modify it to take a drain plug. But only if I plan to keep the car a significant while longer.
So I spent just under $200 on my tranny today. Still cheaper than the $1500 for a complete overhaul in the fall of 2001.
So I'd get at that filter too, trannys are VERY expensive relative to the cost of the filter and maybe an additional hour of labor you are trying to save.
TB