: follow up to transmission dead? probably not clutch 89 90q

[George Selby]

At 12:01 PM 7/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>5)  I believe Aamco is being unreasonable, am I right in this opinion?  I
>have a friend in dayton, OH that had his ford ranger's tranny taken out,
>looked at for $300 at a local place, and syncros replaced for another
>$200.

Well, let's see, a rear wheel drive truck with plenty of room to work with, 
built to American, more sloppy tolerances, and parts available all over the 
place, vs a AWD car with no room under the hood, and tight German 
tolerances, and parts not available everywhere.

I'd say that comparing the price of a Ranger tranny repair and an Audi 
tranny repair is like the proverbial comparison between apples and oranges.

That being said, AAM  is always unreasonable.  IMHO, any shop that will 
sell the same repair for 3 different prices (depending on warrantee) is 
questionable.  I mean are they just doing the same (poor) job and charging 
for the extra rebuilds, or do they actually leave necessary parts out of 
the cheaper rebuilds to save money?  Either way it doesn't sound good to 
me.  They wanted $3500 to rebuild the tranny in my boss's Isuzu P'up (a 
92,)  and some idiot employee gave them authorization to do so.  Our boss 
freaked, and made them pull their rebuilt tranny out, and brought me the 
truck sans tranny.  For $1000 (labor and tranny) I put in a 30k mile unit 
and it has been working every since (in fact he sold it to my landlord.)

George Selby
70 F-100 Ranger XLT 400 C6
78 F-150 4x4 400 4 spd
83 Audi Coupe GT
86 Nissan 300ZX
92 Subaru Legacy Wagon AWD
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