Transmission Shop Advice

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kiddiedoc

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At only 70k miles, my Wrangler's tranny is apparently bad. The dealer wants $5,500!!!!!!
It's only a few months out of the 5 y/100k PT warranty, but customer service was of no help.

I'm thinking of having it towed tomorrow for a quote from someone other than the dealer. AAMCO? First Automotive in Farragut? Thoughts?
 
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kiddiedoc said:
At only 70k miles, my Wrangler's tranny is apparently bad. The dealer wants $5,500!!!!!!
It's only a few months out of the 5 y/100k PT warranty, but customer service was of no help.

I'm thinking of having it towed tomorrow for a quote from someone other than the dealer. AAMCO? First Automotive in Farragut? Thoughts?
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Have it "stolen."
 
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kiddiedoc said:
At only 70k miles, my Wrangler's tranny is apparently bad. The dealer wants $5,500!!!!!!
It's only a few months out of the 5 y/100k PT warranty, but customer service was of no help.

I'm thinking of having it towed tomorrow for a quote from someone other than the dealer. AAMCO? First Automotive in Farragut? Thoughts?
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I’ve always heard AAMCO but it’s been years since I’ve dealt with them. Out of curiosity, was the issue you were having that made you take it in?
 
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Cmacsmokey said:
Your tranny shouldn’t be going out that early unless you have really ragged that Jeep out lol
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I have not. A few trips off road, but nothing crazy.

@Freak : it started making an incredibly-bad growling sound while driving that improves at speed and becomes much worse at idle. Changes to a higher-pitched squeal when put into gear and some early acceleration lag.
 
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Shop said when they got into it, the fluid was low and almost black as oil, like had been burned out
 
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Icing on the cake: the dealer is charging me over $500 for opening and looking in the transmission if I don't get it fixed there.
 
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By no means am I a car expert, but I'm actually having trouble understanding how the transmission could make such a terrible noise in "park" or "neutral." The rhythmic grinding, loud, terrible sound begins immediately when you crank the engine, is coming from the lower/central area below the engine, changes to a higher pitched whine when put into reverse or drive, and often clears once up to speed. It returns when I slow down or come to a stop at a red light.

Any other thoughts? I started with Firestone, and they couldn't figure out what was wrong, which is how I ended up at the stealership.
 
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I was ripped off by AAMCO a long time ago - a couple months after they supposedly fixed it it began leaking worse than it did before I took it there ( and I was out of town when it happened) They are locally owned so I guess its the luck of the draw
 
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kiddiedoc said:
By no means am I a car expert, but I'm actually having trouble understanding how the transmission could make such a terrible noise in "park" or "neutral." The rhythmic grinding, loud, terrible sound begins immediately when you crank the engine, is coming from the lower/central area below the engine, changes to a higher pitched whine when put into reverse or drive, and often clears once up to speed. It returns when I slow down or come to a stop at a red light.

Any other thoughts? I started with Firestone, and they couldn't figure out what was wrong, which is how I ended up at the stealership.
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maybe the driveshaft and not the transmission
 
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Check the local junk yards and find a replacement... surely there must be some jeep transmissions available in TN.
 
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