Steve
McDonough,#2Author of original report
Tue, June 17, 2008
Well, after going up to Amicolola falls and towing a popup camper up that steep hill the transmission started acting up. We ended up swapping a used transmission into the Trooper at AAMCO and then sold the car off. My wife was so sad to see it go. So we got another 37,000 miles out of it and really it only went bad because of towing up an extremely steep hill. Wow, another 37,000 miles on what they said was a BAD Transmission! That proves that they are either incompetent or dishonest!
Hugh
Paducah,#3Consumer Suggestion
Wed, August 02, 2006
Sadly, you see more and more of this these days. The days where dealerships employed real mechanics that could diagnose and repair items seem to be numbered. It's more profitable for the dealerships to hire inexperienced mechanics and have them simply swap out whole components rather than repair what is there. Few dealers rebuild engines or do heavy internal repairs, they just drop in a rebuild engine. Same thing with transmission, they just swap out a rebuilt unit rather than tear into the old one to see if it can be repaired. Steve did the right thing by finding a real transmission mechanic to do the work.