Re: [Chrysler300] Transmission Leak help

["Warren R Anderson" <wranderson@xxxx>]

> PLEASE Help!!: - What are these parts that I am referring to
>called?
> - Where do I find them?
> - How difficult are these to replace?
> - Is this a serious and costly problem?
> - Is there any printed material that I look
at,
>read, and learn?
> - Why would they not want to work on it?


>From a club member that loves the letter cars but also has a truck and auto
shop that is his bread and butter:

Amongst shop owners (internationally, but especially in the rust belt
areas), there is a strong support for a shop policy to not attempt to repair
vehicles over 10 years old or over 100K miles unless the vehicle 'grew up'
in that particular shop. This subject comes up on the net group discussions
and was a thread just two days ago. It is a constant question.

It will be hard for a shop such as you mentioned to make a profit working on
your transmission. Figure in that your transmission was built maybe 15 years
before the shop personnel were born. Parts availability is a major problem.
We can spend hours of uncompensated time chasing what might be considered to
be routine parts for a five year old vehicle. Point is, some old car
problems need to go to people that have the talent to deal with them.

In our world, the $39 would seem reasonable for a lift check and appraisal.
What I see more than anything in the repair industry at any level is that
fixing a problem is no where near as difficult as knowing what to fix. To
that end, we charge for diagnostics. If we hook up one our $6K scanners to
check out your Lexus transmission, the charge for the codes check and the
evaluation of what we find is $65 and that we see is a bargain in our area.
We try to get paid for lift checks, quick test drives and noise listens.
Waving the fee in your case was appropriate.

Keep in mind that Aamco trans shops (at least the ones I know here in AZ)
are independantly owned so the Aamco shop in a neighboring town might have
old car technology on board.

I was a little confused a to where your fluid leak is. The most bestest leak
area in my experience is the shift cable area and I have been unable to stop
leaks there without new parts. There will be other opinions coming I am
sure. I almost got the picture that you might have a cooler line leaking.
Might suggest a picture ID attempt with the Chrysler shop manual as a guide.

Warren Anderson
Sedona,AZ
Shop owner, ASA member shop, ASE master tech car
and medium and HD truck, L1 certified emissions,
licensed mechanical engineer (CA)