Unfortunately today I blew my trans when a gear blew through the housing and broke into 4 pieces and sent trans fluid all over the street. It's over at the chevy dealer now but does anyone have a rough estimate on how much a new trans is going to run me? i'm probably going to have to get a loan cause this is my daily driver and my only car.

 

if you get it from the dealership, your going to pay quite a bit (i would venture to say the 3-5k+ range).

you can buy a race trans less than 2k...

 

If you tell your dealership that you want a used trans, they can probably get one for around $400-1000 depending on the miles.

Or you can source your own used trans for $200-500 and bring it to them.

If you let them buy new it will be $2800+

Then if you buy used you can negotiate the labor. I got mine to be a firm $500 no matter how long it took them.

 

If you just take it into the dealer and say my trans broke, fix it, they will put a new transmission in it...your looking right around 3K out the door. (they should give you a warranty on it though)

 

The route I took, was I bought a used trans and it has a 1 year parts + labor on it for $800

Then I had my dealership/mechanic install it (they were my mechanic before they were a dealership) and got them to do the labor for $500 flat.

 

Thats a great deal Mike...How many miles were on that trans when you bought it? And where did you find it?

 

It was a 50K tranny (sounds high, but my current one was more than triple!) and I found it at a local junk shop and they made the deal with my mechanic to give me the labor included with the parts. Originally it was going to be 6 months parts/labor, and 6 months just parts, but I spoke to my mechanic (since I've gone to him for every car I've had) and he made it the full year for me at no extra charge.

(note when I say local, I mean in NEPA where my parent's live since that's where my mechanic is)

 

Thats a good option to keep in mind! (although, I hope I don't need to think about it..LOL) The only thing that kinda sucks is that we lack junk yards around here...

BTW, the other day when the mechanic at the Chevy dealer drove my car, he told me it felt really strong/ healthy. I asked him how reliable the transmissions were...he said that they are actually pretty good tranny's. He said he honestly does not see many come through that need fixed or repaired. I undertand he works for them...but he seemed pretty honest. He told me he see lots of the 4L60E truck tranny's come through. But he said thats usually because people tow with them, and don't take well enough care of them.

 

Don't you have the same transmission as me but with different gearing?

 

Yea...its the 4T65E. I'm just let you know that he said they were actually pretty good tranny's!

I have different gearing? I thought only the 4T65E HD tranny had different gearing?