My transmission in my '97 Cobra has been acting up bad. Here is a basic overview of the problems. My car has 46k miles btw.
1)Horrible grind on 1-2 shift at mid-high rpm (i can feel the damn thing grinding all the time tho)
2)Grind when going into reverse at a dead stop
3)gear whine (some is normal i guess)
Thats the basic overview. I'm really p!ssed right now. Ford did a "diagnostic" on it, and said I have a bad clutch/throwout bearing. There could "possibly" be a bad synchro regarding the 1-2 problem, but they don't know. Apparently all they do for the tranny "diagnostic" is look at the clutch. In order to take the tranny apart to find the actual problem, aka do the real diagnostic I was looking for, is going to be $900 in labor alone. $500 for the clutch, and hundreds more if its the synchro. It could "possibly be a bent fork". So basically, i'm looking at $1500+, payed $70 for a diagnostic that didn't tell me anything I DIDN'T already know, and have a POS tranny to boot. About the reverse issue, he says its normal for mustangs to grind when going into reverse, what the hell? My Maxima didn't grind, my friends mustangs and camaros don't grind. I HIGHLY doubt I am supposed to get a nasty grind when putting it into f'ing reverse. When he told me it would be $900 just to take apart the damn transmission, I laughed and told him I could get a rebuilt t-45 for that much or less. He and the mechanic told me a rebuilt one would cost me at least $3000.
Well, it appears that I just got by Ford. I'm out $70 and have learned NOTHING that I didn't already know about problems. I did not expect to have all these problems with a tranny that has 46k miles on it.
So my question is, where do I go from here? I refuse to pay that much for what they would do. Please help me out here.
1)Horrible grind on 1-2 shift at mid-high rpm (i can feel the damn thing grinding all the time tho)
2)Grind when going into reverse at a dead stop
3)gear whine (some is normal i guess)
Thats the basic overview. I'm really p!ssed right now. Ford did a "diagnostic" on it, and said I have a bad clutch/throwout bearing. There could "possibly" be a bad synchro regarding the 1-2 problem, but they don't know. Apparently all they do for the tranny "diagnostic" is look at the clutch. In order to take the tranny apart to find the actual problem, aka do the real diagnostic I was looking for, is going to be $900 in labor alone. $500 for the clutch, and hundreds more if its the synchro. It could "possibly be a bent fork". So basically, i'm looking at $1500+, payed $70 for a diagnostic that didn't tell me anything I DIDN'T already know, and have a POS tranny to boot. About the reverse issue, he says its normal for mustangs to grind when going into reverse, what the hell? My Maxima didn't grind, my friends mustangs and camaros don't grind. I HIGHLY doubt I am supposed to get a nasty grind when putting it into f'ing reverse. When he told me it would be $900 just to take apart the damn transmission, I laughed and told him I could get a rebuilt t-45 for that much or less. He and the mechanic told me a rebuilt one would cost me at least $3000.
Well, it appears that I just got by Ford. I'm out $70 and have learned NOTHING that I didn't already know about problems. I did not expect to have all these problems with a tranny that has 46k miles on it.
So my question is, where do I go from here? I refuse to pay that much for what they would do. Please help me out here.