Like Jo and the leaf springs, I have a good luck story with a dealer to tell...
Too often you hear the bad stories about dealers/manufacturers.
I have a GQ Auto, and was having problems with massive viabration when it shifted into Top/overdrive.. Knowing that they are around $4000 to rebuild(was done just before I bought the car!), I was crying.
Took it to several Auto
places they "ALL" said its the Torque Converter, quotes ranged from $800-1850! My heart sank.. They also said up to a week to do the job. Some said they needed to 'trick' up the auto as
well, which may be a good thing, may not! Also might have been charged for, but not done, how can you tell inside a gearbox...
So I called one last place in
Melbourne that was recommended to me by a bloke in my club(Nissan Club). K.B. AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS in Enterprise Ave Berwick. They quoted $600 Drive in Drive out same day, AND they would drop me at work! Booked it in instantly.
Left the car there, and then the phone rings at 11am... Its KB Autos here, nerves kick in like never before, waiting for bad news... We have some NEWS for you.. My heart stops and leaves my body. We have taken off the pan and theres nothing in it but oil. Not knowing, I asked if that was good, he said outstanding! Theres nothing wrong with your torqure converter, or it would be full of stuff... A little WOOHOO action gaining the attention of half of the staff at Kenworth was heard.
Anyway, he suggested he would service the gearbox, and look for the problem, I said, I cant believe how honest he was as I had told him to change the Torque converter and expected to have to pay the $$...
Problem ended up being some adjustment for when it shifts into top gear. Nothing to do with the gearbox in that sense!!!
$180ish later I was driving
home with T H E biggest smile on my face, and it drove so much better too.
So theres another good story.