evanandretti
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So my tranny gave out on me, and I thought I'd be covered under my extended warrenty package.
I was driving normally and heard some weird noises coming from the tranny. I played around with the gears (2nd - 5th) and everything seemed to shift okay. I came to a stop sign and down shifted into first. I couldn't get it into gear, it was grinding and wouldnt let me in. I played with all other gears and everything seemed normal. I took off in second gear with no problems. I finally was able to get it in 1st gear, but as soon as i started moving it would pop out.
I took it to a shop and they got the go ahead to pull it apart. It turns out I was missing a plastic clip on the 1-2 shift fork. He said this stopped 1st gear to fully engage and caused it to pop out. Now 1st gear teeth or a little bit warn, and they wanted to replace it. So they were going to do a rebuild and replace 1st gear. Warranty sent an adjuster over to take pictures as it was an expensive bill. They were pissed because they wanted to replace so many 'wear items' - but the shop said they have to warrenty the tranny for a year so thats why they were replacing other parts. They denied my claim "due to misuse". They kept telling me the teeth were chipped on first gear, and I was power shifting and slamming gears. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th gear I guess that may makes sense, but i dont know how a guy could power shift first!? And what really bugs me is the guy at the tranny shop said the transmission would function replacing the clips on 1-2 shift fork, and leaving the gears as is. But he said they have to replace the gear because they have to warranty the transmission. I went down there and looked at the gears and they are not chipped, simply warn. he said due to it popping out of gear.
So now I don't know what to do. I've heard of these clips breaking before. And I don't know how the truck was previously treated, but I bought it with 9300 miles and put on a couple thousand miles. Are these clips just a wear item? Or did something have to break them. If I was beating the hell out of the tranny i'd bite the bullet and deal with it... it's just the fact that I was driving perfectly normal when it happened, and have never been hard on that tranny.
Any advice guys? I'm willing to take legal action, I think this is BS. They cant prove it was misuse... i'm sure it looks like it could of been from misuse, but the fact that that clip was missing shows that that was the initial problem and then popping out of gear caused the excessive wear. And he didn't say the clip broke because of misuse, he kept saying the teeth were chipped and thats how they know.
What do you guys think!?
I was driving normally and heard some weird noises coming from the tranny. I played around with the gears (2nd - 5th) and everything seemed to shift okay. I came to a stop sign and down shifted into first. I couldn't get it into gear, it was grinding and wouldnt let me in. I played with all other gears and everything seemed normal. I took off in second gear with no problems. I finally was able to get it in 1st gear, but as soon as i started moving it would pop out.
I took it to a shop and they got the go ahead to pull it apart. It turns out I was missing a plastic clip on the 1-2 shift fork. He said this stopped 1st gear to fully engage and caused it to pop out. Now 1st gear teeth or a little bit warn, and they wanted to replace it. So they were going to do a rebuild and replace 1st gear. Warranty sent an adjuster over to take pictures as it was an expensive bill. They were pissed because they wanted to replace so many 'wear items' - but the shop said they have to warrenty the tranny for a year so thats why they were replacing other parts. They denied my claim "due to misuse". They kept telling me the teeth were chipped on first gear, and I was power shifting and slamming gears. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th gear I guess that may makes sense, but i dont know how a guy could power shift first!? And what really bugs me is the guy at the tranny shop said the transmission would function replacing the clips on 1-2 shift fork, and leaving the gears as is. But he said they have to replace the gear because they have to warranty the transmission. I went down there and looked at the gears and they are not chipped, simply warn. he said due to it popping out of gear.
So now I don't know what to do. I've heard of these clips breaking before. And I don't know how the truck was previously treated, but I bought it with 9300 miles and put on a couple thousand miles. Are these clips just a wear item? Or did something have to break them. If I was beating the hell out of the tranny i'd bite the bullet and deal with it... it's just the fact that I was driving perfectly normal when it happened, and have never been hard on that tranny.
Any advice guys? I'm willing to take legal action, I think this is BS. They cant prove it was misuse... i'm sure it looks like it could of been from misuse, but the fact that that clip was missing shows that that was the initial problem and then popping out of gear caused the excessive wear. And he didn't say the clip broke because of misuse, he kept saying the teeth were chipped and thats how they know.
What do you guys think!?
