My parents have a 2004 Maxima with 70k miles on it. It's my Mother's car, they bought it new and she doesn't drive much. The transmission has been acting up for a couple of months (it's a 5 speed auto). They took it to a transmission shop owned by someone they know, and were told everything was ok on the test drive, but they had a fluid exchange performed as preventive maintenance.
I drove the car a few weeks ago, and as soon as I put it in drive, I knew the end was near. There was this bang that was internal to the transmission as I put it in drive, and the 2-3 shift was really hard under light acceleration. They explained it has good days, and bad days.
Well, they just took it back to the shop since the bad days are outnumbering the good, and sure enough it needs rebuilt - $2500. Is this common with these units? They don't drive aggressive and it has had the fluid swapped twice - once by the dealer around 30k and just a few months ago when this started.
I drove the car a few weeks ago, and as soon as I put it in drive, I knew the end was near. There was this bang that was internal to the transmission as I put it in drive, and the 2-3 shift was really hard under light acceleration. They explained it has good days, and bad days.
Well, they just took it back to the shop since the bad days are outnumbering the good, and sure enough it needs rebuilt - $2500. Is this common with these units? They don't drive aggressive and it has had the fluid swapped twice - once by the dealer around 30k and just a few months ago when this started.