I am the third stage of accepting my automatic transmission failure.
The first stage was Resistance or Denial, where I refused to believe it had failed five minutes after I drove it after swapping engines and fixing a dash fire. Everyday I would come home from work, start the car and miraculously hope it would move. I did this ten days in a row, with no luck.
The second stage was Anger, where I moved the car to the number one parking space in my driveway under a shade tree to the my junker parking spot--off the driveway and in the street where traffic often hits parked cars left there. I did this and no one has hit or destroyed the car yet, nor has it caught back on fire which I wished it would..
The final stage, gradual acceptance, yes I still love the car. How much should I offer the guy with a Used 85 300D automatic ?....or should I rebuild mine? It has a bad pump. I may have horrible luck and make terrible errors but believe it or not i always get lucky and solve the tough ones. I would rebuild it, if enuff people told me to and how to do so....