H Bomb
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Hi all, thanks for your time,
I have had some nice bright red drops dripping onto my garage floor for about a month now, at a recent service I asked my mechanic (not a dealer and someone I trust) about finding it and hopefully it was just a power steering pump etc. He said it was coming from a seal in the transmission and that unfortunately it is a big deal. He stated that there is some gasket in there that can get stripped out by something blah blah.... and that it is common to the VY's, so much so that when I rang a auto transmission specialist he knew exactly what I was talking about and said they even had a "kit" that they put in it to stop it happening again. I cant find any mention of it on here though. I have a VYII calais that has been driven by miss daisy and has 130,000k's on it and has been "maintained" pretty well according to the book (god knows what the initial dealer would have done).
Anyway its apparantly a drop the transmission out replace bulk seals and make the new "modification" at a cost of about a grand job....the auto I felt was working ok, the fluid level was ok and the fluid nice and red and "fresh", they both (seperately) warned me that it could "go" at anytime and if I wanted to avoid a potential re-co then it probably should be done soon. Does this sound legit? I mean I respect my car and like the Holden but I keep seeming to discover these "issues" that are "common to VY's, they do it all the time".
Thanks for any assistance and feel free to tell me to suck it up and stop whining but the thought of the car in the shop again and a thousand bucks better spent towards rims and suspension work is starting to get to me.
I have had some nice bright red drops dripping onto my garage floor for about a month now, at a recent service I asked my mechanic (not a dealer and someone I trust) about finding it and hopefully it was just a power steering pump etc. He said it was coming from a seal in the transmission and that unfortunately it is a big deal. He stated that there is some gasket in there that can get stripped out by something blah blah.... and that it is common to the VY's, so much so that when I rang a auto transmission specialist he knew exactly what I was talking about and said they even had a "kit" that they put in it to stop it happening again. I cant find any mention of it on here though. I have a VYII calais that has been driven by miss daisy and has 130,000k's on it and has been "maintained" pretty well according to the book (god knows what the initial dealer would have done).
Anyway its apparantly a drop the transmission out replace bulk seals and make the new "modification" at a cost of about a grand job....the auto I felt was working ok, the fluid level was ok and the fluid nice and red and "fresh", they both (seperately) warned me that it could "go" at anytime and if I wanted to avoid a potential re-co then it probably should be done soon. Does this sound legit? I mean I respect my car and like the Holden but I keep seeming to discover these "issues" that are "common to VY's, they do it all the time".
Thanks for any assistance and feel free to tell me to suck it up and stop whining but the thought of the car in the shop again and a thousand bucks better spent towards rims and suspension work is starting to get to me.