Hi All,
So more than an year ago the transmission on my 2002 LX 470 (202K miles at the time) gave out. From what I can tell 2002 is not known to be a troublesome year for transmissions.
Given the circumstances at the time I went with a used ebay transmission. The catch, I bought a 2000 model year transmission with supposedly 100K miles on it. At the time there were 2002 model year transmissions available. But they had more miles on them then my car so I couldn't convince myself to buy those.
The shop that installed it said, from what they could tell, the pan was never taken off the replacement transmission. Plus, the seller provided me with a Carfax of the donor car, if the transmission did come out of that car it should have ~100k miles on it. That is the best I could do, the car was in PA, I was in NC and the transmission was from ebay. (2000 LX470 Transmission failure - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/2000-lx470-transmission-failure.222485/page-2#post-14713870)
My plan was to get the car mobile again and get a reman'ed transmission on my own time.
My current thought process is that:
- The whole point of this car was to bank on its reliability so I am going to trust the current transmission and keep rocking it as is.
It's not like its going to strand me in the middle of nowhere, right!! right???!!
So far the replacement has been solid. Do I really want to spend the money to get a remanded transmission when my current transmission is running good?
What would you do if you were in this situation ?
So more than an year ago the transmission on my 2002 LX 470 (202K miles at the time) gave out. From what I can tell 2002 is not known to be a troublesome year for transmissions.
Given the circumstances at the time I went with a used ebay transmission. The catch, I bought a 2000 model year transmission with supposedly 100K miles on it. At the time there were 2002 model year transmissions available. But they had more miles on them then my car so I couldn't convince myself to buy those.
The shop that installed it said, from what they could tell, the pan was never taken off the replacement transmission. Plus, the seller provided me with a Carfax of the donor car, if the transmission did come out of that car it should have ~100k miles on it. That is the best I could do, the car was in PA, I was in NC and the transmission was from ebay. (2000 LX470 Transmission failure - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/2000-lx470-transmission-failure.222485/page-2#post-14713870)
My plan was to get the car mobile again and get a reman'ed transmission on my own time.
My current thought process is that:
- The whole point of this car was to bank on its reliability so I am going to trust the current transmission and keep rocking it as is.
It's not like its going to strand me in the middle of nowhere, right!! right???!!
So far the replacement has been solid. Do I really want to spend the money to get a remanded transmission when my current transmission is running good?
What would you do if you were in this situation ?