HELP! Ah Man it finally happened! My transmission!
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yep 100% stock. They will/can deny you for even having aftermarket springs!! It is lame...but they get away with it. I am getting mad just thinking of it when I am typing this...but it is true.
NEVER mention that you had any mods to the car!!!! You will screw yourself tthat way.
If denied...start thinking of RA gears or STi tranny!!!! You will have to put out some money at first...but totally worth it!! The stock tranny will more than likely break again...so save yourself the headache and problems.
NEVER mention that you had any mods to the car!!!! You will screw yourself tthat way.
If denied...start thinking of RA gears or STi tranny!!!! You will have to put out some money at first...but totally worth it!! The stock tranny will more than likely break again...so save yourself the headache and problems.
Last edited by 1WRX2NV; Dec 23, 2004 at 07:20 PM.
Originally Posted by joltdudeuc
always go stock before going to the dealership.
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Originally Posted by 1WRX2NV
yep 100% stock. They will/can deny you for even having aftermarket springs!! It is lame...but they get away with it. I am getting mad just thinking of it when I am typing this...but it is true.
NEVER mention that you had any mods to the car!!!! You will screw yourself tthat way.
If denied...start thinking of RA gears or STi tranny!!!! You will have to put out some money at first...but totally worth it!! The stock tranny will more than likely break again...so save yourself the headache and problems.
NEVER mention that you had any mods to the car!!!! You will screw yourself tthat way.
If denied...start thinking of RA gears or STi tranny!!!! You will have to put out some money at first...but totally worth it!! The stock tranny will more than likely break again...so save yourself the headache and problems.
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Originally Posted by Azjon
Hmmm... if denied... how much money is "some" money i'd have to put out?
I paid $2600 for my RA tranny....great mod, you will be happy with it.
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Originally Posted by Azjon
Hmmm... if denied... how much money is "some" money i'd have to put out?
We sold him the RA set for $2450 installed. Which made is total near $4k when he could have saved the $1400 and being denied if he had not bothered with the dealership.
It's a tough call.
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Originally Posted by UK n00b
One of the guys who's car we completed this week got charged $1250 and denied, then $150 for the car to be trailored here. The car was dismantled as far as the tranny goes and some parts where missing.
We sold him the RA set for $2450 installed. Which made is total near $4k when he could have saved the $1400 and being denied if he had not bothered with the dealership.
It's a tough call.
Mike
We sold him the RA set for $2450 installed. Which made is total near $4k when he could have saved the $1400 and being denied if he had not bothered with the dealership.
It's a tough call.
Mike
dude!! that type of crap pisses my off. they charge you to look at it..then see that it should be warrany...but come up with some lame *** excuse to deny it...so they can charge you.
They also dont even put it back the way it was when it got there. WTH?!?!?!
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Originally Posted by 1WRX2NV
dude!! that type of crap pisses my off. they charge you to look at it..then see that it should be warrany...but come up with some lame *** excuse to deny it...so they can charge you.
They also dont even put it back the way it was when it got there. WTH?!?!?!
They also dont even put it back the way it was when it got there. WTH?!?!?!
Mike
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Originally Posted by Azjon
Dont know much about the transmission but today after I exited off 880 into Calaveras in Milpitas, my transmission for some reason got stuck on 4th gear and I couldn't shift moving it to neutral or any other gear. It was like that for 30+ seconds at the light and I finally got it to first but everytime after that my 3rd + 4th gear was all funky. It was like that all the way home. I made a post a while back just saying how my 4th gear has been grinding a bit so figure its got something to do with that too.
Questions are:
-Where in Milpitas is a good place I can take my car to get it looked at?
-Can Gruppe-S look at it? Since its not too far. I'll be calling them in the morning but thought i'd ask anyways.
-Anyone know what type of things I should just look for on my own?
-Kinda scared to drive my car now, so could any of you pros come to my house in Milpitas to check it out?
Would have posted this in the Maintenance/Transmission sections but since I need to know where in the Bay to bring it I put it here.
Questions are:
-Where in Milpitas is a good place I can take my car to get it looked at?
-Can Gruppe-S look at it? Since its not too far. I'll be calling them in the morning but thought i'd ask anyways.
-Anyone know what type of things I should just look for on my own?
-Kinda scared to drive my car now, so could any of you pros come to my house in Milpitas to check it out?
Would have posted this in the Maintenance/Transmission sections but since I need to know where in the Bay to bring it I put it here.
hmm...for quite a while, my 4th slightly grinds when i go into it...it's been tripping me out lately and I dunno what's wrong either
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Originally Posted by yayitzian
hmm...for quite a while, my 4th slightly grinds when i go into it...it's been tripping me out lately and I dunno what's wrong either
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Originally Posted by UK n00b
Yea it was pretty lame, they even told the guy that if he did not remove his car by X date it would be $50 a day storage. He was pretty pissed off about it (as would I be). Last I heard he was having fun with his RA unit now so it's all water under the bridge now.
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Glad we have you guys around to help use out with tranny gears!!!!
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Originally Posted by 1WRX2NV
if you have warranty...report it now before it gets too late. Once it starts grinding...it just gets worse.
so i guess i'll start saving now for a new gearset or something...
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dont we have 50k-60k factory power train warranty?? or is that the extra milage warranty??
http://www.cars101.com/subwarr.html#warranty
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http://www.cars101.com/subwarr.html#warranty
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Originally Posted by 1WRX2NV
dont we have 50k-60k factory power train warranty?? or is that the extra milage warranty??
http://www.cars101.com/subwarr.html#warranty
-freddie
http://www.cars101.com/subwarr.html#warranty
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yup...but if they really wanted to, they can always say it was because of his style of driving, and deny the warranty. Wich is a bunch of crap...they cart really tell that. But what they say, goes....