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I’ve never had anything stolen out of my car, but I have had parts stolen out of my backyard. My Mustang originally came with power steering but it was disconnected and falling apart when I got it. So pulled it out and put on manual steering components just to get it driveable in the meantime and I’d fix them later. Well one day I come home to find that they’re all gone and no one in the house had touch them. Close to $500 worth of parts gone.
Now my dad has had it a lot worse than me. When my parents were getting divorced he had his 2008 Dodge Ram stolen out of our driveway. Fortunately he was trying to sell it and nothing valuable was in it at the time, but that didn’t turn out to matter. My dad was a professional photographer and kept had several thousand dollars worth of cameras. While he had a rental after his truck had been stolen, it got broken into while he was at a restaurant and had those several thousand dollar cameras stolen.
I think I may have finally discovered the TRUE cause of the transmission failure. You see, my in-laws originally bought the Elantra when their previous car, a 96 Camry broke due to… transmission failure and sat in the driveway untouched for the next fifteen years. Just two days before the transmission failed on the Elantra the Camry was finally sent to the scrapyard and the Elantra was parked in it’s spot immediately after. The Camry’s spirit must have cursed us for this and caused the Elantra to fail just has it had!
Ok that was lame, but I gotta stay upbeat about this somehow. Always good to keep your sense of humor about things, even only you think you’re funny.
Ironically though I did watch that video on saying goodbye a few days before this happened. But yes I do know a transmission specialist who I’ve used before with good success. Now we’re looking at buying a used, working transmission and have it gone through by them. This of course is if we can find one like that for a decent price and warranty and if the transmission shop isn’t going to charge too much. Then of course there’s getting the new one in and the old out. I could maybe do it myself but I’ve never pulled a tranny from a front wheel drive car before, but hey, no better way to learn than to try to do it. Pulled out of a rear wheel drive before, several times in fact (it’s also an interesting story, but not for this thread).
As far as the used car option, as far I know that’s not going to happening until sometime in December, so we’ve got time to think about it. We’re trying to get things done quickly mostly so that the Elantra doesn’t end up like the Camry. They kept saying that they would have it fixed right up until the tow truck took it away. Maybe that’s not a good way of doing it, but it’s better than letting it sit and rot for a decade.
Anyway thanks everyone whose read through my walls of text and replied. I’ll keep you guys updated as things work out.
Have a happy cat picture.
[URL=http://s1381.photobucket.com/user/supercar1999supercar14/media/P5242799_zps5zjya0eo.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah237/supercar1999supercar14/P5242799_zps5zjya0eo.jpg[/IMG][/URL]That’s why we decided to fix it last time. Didn’t want to buy a used car only to have the same, if not more problems down the line. The used car that we were supposed to getting is from a relative and it isn’t supposed to have any problems, they’re getting rid of it because they want a fancier car, at least that’s what I’ve been told anyway. Not saying the person that told me that was lying, but they don’t really know anything about cars and aren’t very good at communicating since English isn’t their first language.
No rust as far as I can see and I’ve been under it several times, so it there is any it’s hidden very well. I’m also 99% certain that the tranny failed due to having almost no maintenance done for nearly its entire life (it only got maintenance if it got wrecked and maintenance just happened to get don at the shop). It’s got other problems too, but none of them are really serious. So that’s still something that we’re factoring into our decision.
It’s also not like we’re without a car. I’ve got a 65 Mustang that has now become the daily driver. It’s very fun to drive on the freeway, especially since it refuses to go in a straight line. :side:
I’ve been around Chryslers for a while and I’ve never heard of a tranny going bad on them. I’ve seen almost everything else go bad though, including the AC control catching on fire because of an overload and failed protection circuitry. Guess in a way we were lucky since nothing was as expensive to fix as a bad tranny.
I would be happy with the car if the tranny worked, and I have gotten quite fond of it since I’ve done quite a bit of work on it since I’ve had it. But like I said in the op I’m not the only one who has a say in what happens to the car, but I’ll do my best to convince everyone else involved to try to fix it.
We’ll see what happens.
Well unfortunately it came back as I expected it to, dead. They couldn’t find any codes when they checked and they found that the problem was due to internal damage. Since it had already been rebuilt once unsuccessfully they said that the transmission was totaled. I also ended up calling the guy who rebuilt it last time and he said that the reason it kept getting sent back was because it wasn’t shifting right due to metal shards inside from the broken piece… Would have been kinda nice to know that when he was rebuilding it and not have us driving a time-bomb for over a year… Anyway our options at this point are buy a remanufactured transmission, buy a used one and have it rebuilt, or scrap the car. I like this car and don’t really want to scrap it, but it looks like that might be what we have to do 🙁
It depends on weather or not your T-5 is a World Class or not. The World Class uses normal ATF, while the non World Class does not.
[quote=”MDK22″ post=147062]Buy a torque wrench and the proper size socket. If you use it right and put it away properly the torque wrench will last you a long time as a DIY.[/quote] I’ve got both. What do they need to be torqued to?
No just the lug wrench that came with the spare tire. But with the car on the ground I tighten the lugs by hand then once they’re tight I’ll stand on the wrench to tighten them the rest of the way. I know hat’s probably not the best way, but it’s worked well. Except for this one time that is. :unsure: