trans bearing on car talk

[steves76]

This week on car talk I heard Richard with an 03 that had over 80k. and the trans had to be replaced. I was wondering if it was anyone here.

[joatmon]

It was a Robert from Ypsilanti MI. with 86,000 milesYou can hear the segment at http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html segment 9.They told him that sometimmes stuff happens, and that he should replace the bearing in his bad one that is sitting in his workshop, and hold on to it in case the new tranny goes bad. He paid $1600 for a replacement used tranny and new clutch kit, installed. Steve, thanks for the heads up on the show

[Bobssbase04]

The tranny went out in my Matrix at 42,000 due to a bad bearing. It was under warranty. They dealer changed the whole tranny.

[jake75]

That woud be 6,000 past the Vibe warranty.

[ColonelPanic]

They had some lady with a jacked up clutch on her almost new Matrix XRS with like 15,000 miles or something who called in a few weeks ago as well. *sigh* Is it just me, or am I the only one noticing a pattern here with an alarming number of tranny related issues? Way to go, Toyota!!! I'm just not getting a warm, fuzzy feeling about the reliability of this powertrain. Especially mine, I can't trust it farther than I can throw it. Very sad.At least I'm adding a bit of variety into the mix, finally someone has an automatic transmission that is dying, not a manual! Whatta piece of junk.

[joatmon]

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »At least I'm adding a bit of variety into the mix, finally someone has an automatic transmission that is dying, not a manual! Whatta piece of junk. well, if anyone was going to have auto tranny problems, it would have been you