Tell me about it. It's so hard these days to find someone you trust. I saw these guys on Ebay with a rebuilt AOD tranny for $495 ($110 for shipping plus a $75 core charge). On the auction page description they sure talk themselves up nice. They say their trannys are dyno tested and all new parts (Borg-Warner I believe) are used. It's great that they can do the talk, but can they back it up? I mean, $495 for a rebuilt tranny seems pretty inexpensive to me. Must be using imported labor to rebuild the trannys, not that that's a bad thing mind you (as Seinfeld would say).
I have a friend of a friend (who has been rebuilding transmissions all his teen and adult life), who told me he would basically do the tranny rebuild, as long as I would help him, and he would only charge me wholesale for the parts and a couple hundred labor. Seems a big sticking point was just getting the tranny out (seems we have to take out the gas tank???), but when I told him I would help, he relented.
But if these trannys from this Arizona company are as glorious as they say, would it just be worth it to order one from them and have it put in?
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