Tom wrote: "50K is terrible. I owned a long string of 70's era American cars and I only lost one transmission, at 125,000 miles."
Of all of the cars I have owned (about 40), I have only had one transmission fail. It was a 1981 Olds 98. That particular transmission did have problems. A lot of them failed at 70-90,000. Mine lasted until 186,000 miles and I don't think that is bad at all for an allegedly bad transmission. NONE of my other cars have ever had transmission problems. The only transmission problems I ever saw at the Olds dealership was an occasionally 87-89 Olds/Buick/Pontiac "H" Body (Delta 88/Lesabre/Bonneville) and the C body cars (98/Park Avenue). But that was very rare. By 1990 the 4T60 transmission was in place and was a great transmission. I have not heard of problems on others. In all of my cars, I just changed the fluid/filter every 30-50,000 miles and made sure when I pulled out, I was stopped before switching from reverse to drive. A lot of people are still reversing when they move over to drive. I think that is hard the transmission. Donald H. Snook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090122/eb6262d7/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
