$5400 for a transmission [6L80] in my 2016 5.3 Tahoe from the Stealership
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And you hadn’t even seen Mesquite yet
Why did it need replacing ?
Did you sue the idiot ?
$5300 for a rebuild of our well cared for 6F35 Ford transmission in our 2017 Explorer. Ford "improved" these transmissions for 2016-2019 model years, causing major failures 
. I chose to rebuild at a local transmission shop rather than a reman through the dealer, actually more expensive at the dealer. Funny thing is my re builder is now repairing the remans for the Ford dealers due to them failing shortly after installation and the time to get another reman is excessive. The customers waited a long time to get the original reman and were not happy about waiting even longer for the replacement reman.
. I chose to rebuild at a local transmission shop rather than a reman through the dealer, actually more expensive at the dealer. Funny thing is my re builder is now repairing the remans for the Ford dealers due to them failing shortly after installation and the time to get another reman is excessive. The customers waited a long time to get the original reman and were not happy about waiting even longer for the replacement reman.Reading this thread, has made me realize how blessed I've been with my vehicles. The most I've ever spent, was for a set of Michelin Latitudes for my wife's vehicle, $800 on sale.
Nick1994
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Had the transmission rebuilt on my dad’s Mercury Sable 3 years ago, $2,700.
For my own car I paid about $2,200 for a new dual-mass flywheel in 2014 on my 2004 VW Beetle TDI.
For my own car I paid about $2,200 for a new dual-mass flywheel in 2014 on my 2004 VW Beetle TDI.
I gave it serious consideration, but settled on telling everyone, everywhere how bad he is. Like I said, the German guy in Fort Mohave.
You go into a lawsuit a hog, you come out sausage.
I paid nearly a thousand dollars for tires once
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$1616 for my Jeep tires … no certificates …
The only repair recent was $900 for replacing $110 ignition wiring harness at VW Dealer on 18 Tiguan. We were past the 120k extended warranty on this specific repair.
Patman
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The torque tube is one thing that GM can’t seem to get right, they have been failing on the C5s, C6s and C7s. Because of where they sit, they generate a lot of heat and it ruins the bearings. In my case I was hearing a rattling noise at idle. If left too long it gets much worse but I caught it early.
$6500 for a front end and radiator stack crash repair on a Chevy volt
i have several i actively use to make a living.
I think my total spent on the TL in my screen name for a bunch of suspension work ended up being around $1,800 in 2023. I probably would have strongly considered junking the car had I know it would be $1,800 of the bat. Car is still running about 20k miles later and otherwise runs smoothly so it ended up being a good investment even if the car broke down tomorrow.
Long story version:
I have a trusted mechanic but he's in his 70's and farms out tough jobs now that he's old. He has saved me a lot of money over the years and continues to do so.
He admits to not being an expert on the suspension so I helped him take the car to be evaluated for the suspension problems. The place originally misdiagnosed the problem and said it was one lower control arm that needed to be fixed.
Even though it ended up being a "miserable" job (And I understand it after watching some YouTube videos of mechanics working on rust belt suspensions), he did that work for me. He took it back to the same place and they said that it actually needed more work and estimated $800 for the job. I helped him take it to another local place that gave him a similar diagnosis and similar estimate. (He doesn't even charge me to for doing this even though he's wasting time to take the car and listen to their diagnosis and evaluating it).
We ended up taking it to the shop where we had the timing belt and water pump done when I bought this car from a friend. My mechanic says this place is expensive but he thinks they usually do good work. The estimated about $800 something as well and they did a good job on her timing belt/water pump so I decided to go with this place instead of the second shop.
The world gets done and we are ready to pick it up and the work ends up being $1300. My mechanic is pissed bc it's way higher than they estimated. He says sometimes they can find other stuff that needs to be replaced but he says they should have called him to notify him of the extras and get his/my approval. He talks them into taking $100 off of it.
He says after that he can bother them more but I tell him just to forget about it. It wasn't his fault and if it the work seems to be done right and my car works, I'm fine with it at this point.
So as I said above, the suspension is still good and the car got had 293k back then and is almost at 314k now so it ended up being with the money vs having to buy a new car. Again, if I had know it would be $1700-1800 off the bat, I might have just junked it. (Whatever my mechanic replaced initially and I'm too lazy to dig up the paperwork was around $400).
Long story version:
I have a trusted mechanic but he's in his 70's and farms out tough jobs now that he's old. He has saved me a lot of money over the years and continues to do so.
He admits to not being an expert on the suspension so I helped him take the car to be evaluated for the suspension problems. The place originally misdiagnosed the problem and said it was one lower control arm that needed to be fixed.
Even though it ended up being a "miserable" job (And I understand it after watching some YouTube videos of mechanics working on rust belt suspensions), he did that work for me. He took it back to the same place and they said that it actually needed more work and estimated $800 for the job. I helped him take it to another local place that gave him a similar diagnosis and similar estimate. (He doesn't even charge me to for doing this even though he's wasting time to take the car and listen to their diagnosis and evaluating it).
We ended up taking it to the shop where we had the timing belt and water pump done when I bought this car from a friend. My mechanic says this place is expensive but he thinks they usually do good work. The estimated about $800 something as well and they did a good job on her timing belt/water pump so I decided to go with this place instead of the second shop.
The world gets done and we are ready to pick it up and the work ends up being $1300. My mechanic is pissed bc it's way higher than they estimated. He says sometimes they can find other stuff that needs to be replaced but he says they should have called him to notify him of the extras and get his/my approval. He talks them into taking $100 off of it.
He says after that he can bother them more but I tell him just to forget about it. It wasn't his fault and if it the work seems to be done right and my car works, I'm fine with it at this point.
So as I said above, the suspension is still good and the car got had 293k back then and is almost at 314k now so it ended up being with the money vs having to buy a new car. Again, if I had know it would be $1700-1800 off the bat, I might have just junked it. (Whatever my mechanic replaced initially and I'm too lazy to dig up the paperwork was around $400).
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