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Old 06-30-2004, 08:28 AM
jcantor jcantor is offline
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Goldenbear,

I would definately agree with you that brakes are cheaper than trannies however on long, steep downgrades, trannies are cheaper than my life. Along that line, though, I do know one person who brags about getting 100K out of his brakes but eventually admits that he's had the transmission rebuilt three times in 450K miles which seems like a really poor way to spend your money to me.

I only run into situations where I might downshift a few times a year. In fact, it probably took me 8 months since having the transmission rebuilt last spring to discover this issue (and I'm pretty sure the behavior was the same before the rebuild as well). Upsifts are bearly noticible under most normal conditions and moderate to hard but not harsh at WOT. Everything is certainly much better than it had been before I had the tranny rebuilt.

jlc
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'87 560SEL 267K (177K on motor) Blue/Blue
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'56 Imperial Sedan 124K
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'87 Chrysler 5th Ave 245K and going strong (sold)
'73 Plymouth Satillite 175K (sold)
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