Subway
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Hi all
Just after some advice, my transmission started to fail on the weekend. It wouldn't change gears correctly, seemed to change once I took my foot of the accelerator. I turned around and drove it a few K's home and called the RACQ. He said it sounded bad and there wasn't much he could do with it, he said to have it towed to a recommended repairer in the area. He thought it was the Torque Converter as he said it was rare to see the transmission go in a VS with low K's like mine (123,000).
I called the repairer today, Envirocool, they said the transmission is stuffed and he is pricing around a new one for me. I had a quick search on the forum and it looks like a reconditioned transmission will cost around $1500-2000? I hoping it won't be over $2000 but just wanted to get an idea of what the current cost of such a repair is. Any other advice or tips would be appreciated.
Car is a 1997 VS11 HSV Senator 185i.
Thanks,
S
Just after some advice, my transmission started to fail on the weekend. It wouldn't change gears correctly, seemed to change once I took my foot of the accelerator. I turned around and drove it a few K's home and called the RACQ. He said it sounded bad and there wasn't much he could do with it, he said to have it towed to a recommended repairer in the area. He thought it was the Torque Converter as he said it was rare to see the transmission go in a VS with low K's like mine (123,000).
I called the repairer today, Envirocool, they said the transmission is stuffed and he is pricing around a new one for me. I had a quick search on the forum and it looks like a reconditioned transmission will cost around $1500-2000? I hoping it won't be over $2000 but just wanted to get an idea of what the current cost of such a repair is. Any other advice or tips would be appreciated.
Car is a 1997 VS11 HSV Senator 185i.
Thanks,
S