Well, this is my first post to this forum, and depending on how bad the news is it may end up being my last
On friday the auto-tranny on my '96 Contour v6 decided that it was tired of shifting. I had driven about a mile and was stopped at a light and when the light turned green, I couldn't go forward. My rev's would climb but the wheels would not move. I turned the car off and then started it again and still nothi...wait it actually moved...and continued to move...until the next stop light. Same thing again, except I left it off longer. I found a place to pull over and had it towed to a tranny shop.
They finally got around to looking at it today. They test drove it and it again stopped shifting after about a mile. They are saying $350 to drop the pan and look at it and $1500-1800 for a rebuild.
I had it rebuilt last year after it died when I got rear-ended. No check engine light, no slipping or lurching right up until it died. I did notice a whine when I accelerated that wasn't there when I dorve it to school that morning.
Is this a dead tranny and I'm SOL, or could it be something simpler and cheaper?