Vehicle with a dead tranny: what to do?

[churchmouse]

Crazy enough my wife and I had near the same experience. We drove to Kentucky with an alternator and a battery for my sisters Cutlass. It pooped out on here coming home from Florida. The locals wanted way to much to fix it so I got the parts and drove most of the night to pick her and the car up. Took about 2 hrs to make the repairs and we started for home. Got to Scotsburg and the tranny just popped. She called me on her cell and said it was slipping and I saw smoke and then more smoke and then pop....fluid poured out of the pan as all the internals tried to exit through it. I pulled her to the top of the ramp and we left the car to be scouped up by the local junk yard. It had 165,000 on it, Bye bye.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Fiancee had a minivan. We tried to trade it in at Carmax when we got her car, but that wound up increasing the total, so I paid it off and we just sold it. I should set up as a used car lot here; this is the second one that's sold off this property with no sign or solicitation. Izzat fer sale? Wow. Nothing broken though.

 

[gunman41mag]

what about buying a used tranny for a junk yard & having it installed so the van will at least run when you sell it

 

[miguel]

Looks like we're going to donate it to charity. That way, no towing costs, no Craigslist nuts, etc.

Since we had it for 12 years, I'm ok getting $0 out of it to not be hassled by it any longer. If it weren't 125 miles away, I might feel different.

Or call me to make a bid.

 

[IndyGunSafety]

I know a guy...

 

[miguel]

I know a guy...

This vehicle would look great in one of your training rooms...

 

[miguel]

Final update...we are donating the vehicle to charity. Painless and we get a small tax deduction. Win-win.

 

[hornadylnl]

Don't take roofies and go to Thai strip clubs?

 

[mcolford]

Yea, me too lol. Wrong kind of tranny I suppose

Necro-Posting just a little bit? I have seen more than one thread you have brought back from the dead there, Chief!

 

[Audie Murphy]

I was totally expected something different out of this thread

LOL, I was thinking the same thing.

 

[miguel]

It was an epic thread title...and now a tale of a dead tranny has been necro-bumped.

That in and of itself takes it to a new level.

 

[femurphy77]

So did they ever decide to do with the body? I voted for concrete blocks and an abandoned quarry!!

 

[Caleb]

I was going to buy a Honda mini van, but I read about the horrible transmission problem...wait...was this the Honda mini can I was going to buy?

 

[sepe]

So did they ever decide to do with the body? I voted for concrete blocks and an abandoned quarry!!

I believe they stole a shovel from a charity and buried the tranny in a shallow grave at a rest stop along US 30.

 

[Bigtanker]

I was thinking of an INGO open shoot. Tow it to a lake front and get a bunch of INGO'ers into a large boat with lots firearms....... oh wait......bad idea.

 

[calcot7]

I was totally expected something different out of this thread

Yea, I thought you might have accidentally shot a T-vestite and needed disposal recomendations.