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I ran a manual without oil for 12km's and it still runs amazing.
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Come to think of it, I'm probably the reason it got canned
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With that said, after talking with my trusted mechanic, it sounds like it was probably the transmission the first time.
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I was leaving work after a long 12 hour shift and just as I was pulling out of my parking lot, no drive, no reverse. I waited 2 plus hours in the dark at my store in a dangerous neighborhood for my AAA tow. I'm sure many of you remember the epic Dennis thread. At least this time it's in the hands of a trusted Porsche savant. Here's to hoping it is the same problem as last one and easily repaired.
KK, man we've missed you! Just talking about you the other day. Oh my goodness! Not again!!!!!!
Is this a nightmare or what? Keep us posted throughout the process. Maybe I should bring my manual tranny Cabriolet up to Greensboro to meet your auto tranny Cabriolet?... maybe it could rub a little reliability on yours? ha! j/k
So not only does Kalash steal transmissions, he steals bad transmissions to pawn off on hapless victims? What a guy!
Bummer man, that sucks. Hopefully it won't be the ordeal it was last time! Either you're beating the hell out of this thing like no Tip owner before you, or there is something else going on beyond the transmission. Make sure someone that knows the 996 looks at it this time and don't rush it.
Good luck.
Yowza!!!! It must be a continuation of the same problem from before. Zero chance you got two bad trannies.
(Although I hear that Slaker has had several bad trannies.)
Haha thanks guys. I'm fairly positive it's something with the shift cable again. Maybe closer to the transmission this time rather than directly at the shifter. While waiting 2 hours for the tow my girlfriend brought me some of my tools and I started ripping up the console to see if the same bracket had busted again. It didn't appear to be but it definitely feels exactly the same as last time. I drive the car hard but that shouldn't have any bearing on the stupid shifter cable. I think the think might have been put in too tight and just broke over time or something.
Just terrible timing. My Mustang got damaged on the interstate a week or so ago from debris on the road, it also needs new tires, I can barely afford my insurance for the two cars lately and then this. Sigh.
Keep it all in prospective my friend. You have a good job... pharmacist right? You own two very nice sports cars and have a nice lady in your life. Be thankful. There are far more worse things in life that can drain the $$ accounts.
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Just spoke with my mechanic. It doesn't look good. Sounds like its actually the transmission this time. I can't afford to put another transmission in this car. Anybody have any clue what kind of money I could get for the car as is with broken transmission?
I agree. Regardless of if the current transmission is dead or not, this is not a transmission issue. Something else is up with the car that is causing it to eat trannies.
I get that he's done though.
As far as value, it's usually a dead motor that we talk about as a roller, but a roller is a roller I guess. Especially when you have this history without a clear reason as to the cause. Big gamble for someone to pick up, slap a new transmission in, only to have it blow again.
Correct me if I'm wrong on history here, but "Dennis the Menace" first destroyed the original transmission (that was probably still in good working condition) and now, the second one that he installed is toast???
What are the chances?
I think I remember you saying he "lawyered up" when you sent him a letter requesting a full refund for services. I probably recommend doing the same.
A roller IS NOT a roller. One with a good engine is worth a lot more than one with a broken one. Take the cost of a good replacement transmission and replacement labour, deduct that from the value of the car and a few more $K to make it worth while and that's what your car is worth.
The letter was from my lawyer. I didn't have a good case and even if I won I could spend years just trying to collect my funds.
With that said, after talking with my trusted mechanic, it sounds like it was probably the transmission the first time. Dennis the Menace probably just did a very poor job installing it which in turn snapped the shift cable bracket which the other mechanic found to be the problem. The shifter never felt weird when the car first broke down. Only after Dennis installed the new trans.
Park and neutral work fine and the shifter is functioning properly. The input speed sensors at the transmission are reading normal but the output sensors have nothing. All things indicate the issue is in the transmission. My guy is a one man shop and tearing into transmissions is not feasible for him.
At this point, I need another transmission or someone willing and able to break down the current transmission. I can't afford to do this again right now. I'm having the car towed home to sit in the garage. I'll turn in the tags and drop the insurance. It'll have to sit for a couple years while I pay off my Mustang (and the Porsche).
Yeah, it feels like I'm bringing a friend home to die. I mean not really, it's a car not a person, but you know what I mean.
The only upside is my insurance should drop a decent amount. It's currently around 2800 for 6 months. F*** me right?
Well then, just put the insurance money aside for 8 months and then fix it.
Could be a solenoid in the valve body the problem and from what I'v seen on the net, they are pretty easy to replace.
Think about this way rather... You're bringing home a dear, close friend who's a star athletic and in desperate need of knee replacement surgery so that he can run fast again.
No thank you. Straight and married. bwhahahaha
It would be amazing if that was the issue. Just so weird it would happen to two transmissions. This is pretty much the plan though. Unless I can find a way to sell it like it is for close to enough to pay it off.
Should I crank it up and let it run every now and then? It is it fine to sit? Do I need to add some stabilizer to the gas?
Ouch!
Pick up the phone and start calling for quotes. I know it seems archaic but find a phone book and call a few local independent agents. Then call all the big name national carriers.
Is it $2800 just for the 996 or that account billing all your vehs?
Also, ask them to suspend liability, remove collision coverage and leave comprehensive. Comprehensive will keep you covered if the car is stolen, burns, or vandalized during your downtime.
Ha! I remember being young!
Wait...
When I bought my XK8 I thought the number that Progressive gave me was obscene, so I called Geico. Once the lady pulled up my record she literally laughed at me and asked if I was serious. Refused to even give me a quote.
At least we were married when I bought her the 996 and it was in her name, but we were still paying 4k for 6 months for the XK8, 996, my Golf, and her F-150.
Thankfully my record is quite a bit cleaner now and USAA has taken me back
Thats for my 996 and the Mustang. Not including my motorcycles. It's so d*** high due to my driving record. At the end of 2015 I got charged with speeding and racing. Before I get lectured on racing, it was a BS charge. I was admittedly speeding in the left lane on the interstate passing a string of cars when another Mustang in that line felt I was "challenging" him and whipped out behind me, got right on my tail, just as a trooper was getting on the interstate. Charged me with prearranged speed competition. A year in court later it was reduced to willful speed comp and the speeding charge stuck as is. Suspended license. Not looking for any sympathy, just to explaining why my rates are so high for a late 20s guy. It was an idiot move to be going hat fast and I've been on the straight and narrow for over a year now.
Never got a racing (and never did), but by the time I was 21 I had 22 points* on my license. I think I still had 18 or so on it when I bought the Jag
* Well past the limit that should have lost my license, but VA put me in a stupid trial program years before that I milked all the advantage out of. Come to think of it, I'm probably the reason it got canned
Basically you start in an 18 month phase and any point violation put you in a 6 month phase. In the 6 month phase any point ticket suspended your license for a number of months equal to twice the points. If you made it through the 6 months, you went back to 18 month, and if you made it through the 18 month you left the program. The brain dead part was that they wrote it such that the DMV couldn't pull your license unless you got a violation in the 6 month phase. So as long as you stayed out of court you were golden. They put me in the program when I was 17, I finally left it when I was 26. Within days of getting out of the 6 month phase I would get another ticket and start over
I hear those Tips are pretty stout...J/K
I really feel for you man this sucks. But again as mentioned, you need to find out what's causing tranny's to fail. Any unusual history with the car?
Yeah, its weird. I ran a manual without oil for 12km's and it still runs amazing. I know....you didnt really want to hear that,
When I stored my car for two years, it was sans motor and I put a can of seafoam with a full tank of gas.
I always store my machines with some seafoam in the tank. Dirtbike, skidoo...summer car....all get a can of seafoam to the tank before storage.
be glad you're not in Ontario, Canada. 50km/hr over the speed limit and it's an automatic 7 day suspension, car impounded at your cost and a street stunting charge - same as racing.
KK, my advise for you would be to fix the 996 if it is financially feasible and then dump it. If you are correct about diagnosis, then your car will be on the SECOND engine and THIRD transmission in less than 70k miles. Clearly something is very wrong with your case, or the car is just cursed.
Get it running, dump it to carmax. If you have a loan, still dump it and then pay off the difference.
Sometimes you got to make those decisions. You are spending $5.5k on insurance, that $2k+ you save on not having the 996 will be handy in fixing/modding the mustang.
This quote and this entire scenario definitely brings this movie clip to mind - good way to waste a couple of minutes (will make you laugh guessing who here is which character):
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No. You would pay the difference between the lien and what they offer you, assuming the offer is less than what you owe.
As for this strategy, Caveat Emptor, I guess, but I wouldn't do it. An average buyer, even one that does a PPI, wouldn't catch the problem, and CarMax won't have your service records.
I'd hate to be the guy that bought your car...
Check your homeowners insurance, mine will cover the stolen, burns, or vandalized as long as it was on my property if this happens. Then you may not need any insurance on the car while it sits in the garage.
I once backed into a car in my truck while backing out of driveway (it was just parked in street at curb), my insurance broker told me to say that I did not set the brake and it rolled back into the other car so that my homeowners insurance would pic it up without jacking up my auto premium.
Really!!, like I said, I contacted my insurance and it was my agent that made the recommendation to use my home insurance policy. The insurance paid "no dishonesty or crap on my part"
Umm, if you told your home owner's agent that the accident happened in a manner than what actually happened and filed the claim through them, then that is insurance fraud and very bad.
Now if you continued to file the claim through the car insurance, then yes you did the correct thing (though you really should have reported the agent for encouraging insurance fraud).
Nothing like a good ole felony for what is ultimately a lifetime rounding error.
My felonies will involve Pacific islands and scrooge McDuck piles of gold
texcwa - Oh crap, you touched a nerve. Here, I'll distract them with the only thing that will draw more ire:
Hey guys, today I was driving my car over 100 mph on the street when I . . .
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What's with the Mustang drivers? I was in my S2000 back in 2006, got pulled over in Sylva on my way to Tail of the Dragon and the tropper insisted that I was racing. He pointed me back the direction i came from and they have pulled over a red Mustang. I had not even the slightest idea that car was there. Insisted that I was not racing anyone but I still got a ticket for reckless driving but at least he didnt put racing on my ticket...
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