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My wife pulls up Friday afternoon and I hear the dreaded ??Something is wrong with my car?. Turns out the tranny is dead. Second and forth gear are gone and when it does shift (sometimes it just bounces off the rev limiter) it's a very harsh clunk. Once you get moving? if you floor it, it totally slips and will bounce off the rev limiter and then engage gear if you let off the gas. Of course the O/D light started flashing (kiss of death). The car has 108k on it and has been good up to this point. I did flush and fill every 25k with the last one at 100k. I checked the fluid and it looks great and I had no indication of immanent failure. I also replaced the TSS as a long shot? no dice. Dealer confirmed, dead tranny. I??m just going to trade it in? I don??t owe much.
I??ll be sad to see the Mercury go, it has served me well over the last 4 years.
R.I.P.
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They won't take the car in on a trade with a DEAD TRANNY.
My dealer wouldn't take it either.
Otherwise I would have never laid out $2,700 to replace the tranny.
My tranny went with 1st and 3rd gear slipping.
Pete...
2004 Mercury Marauder 300A
Black Clearcoat/Dark Charcoal LEATHER
DOB 10/31/2003
DOP 1/2/2004
www.mercurymarauder.net
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Originally posted by RoadRunner:
They won't take the car in on a trade with a DEAD TRANNY.
They DID take it with a blown tranny? I pickup my new Foci SE Wagon @ 5:00pm today. The deal is already done. They offered me $500.00 for the car, I told them $1000.00 and then we met in the middle at $750.00. They also gave me the wagon at invoice in addition to a $2500.00 rebate (2002 model).
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You paying with cash or financing ??
Pete...
2004 Mercury Marauder 300A
Black Clearcoat/Dark Charcoal LEATHER
DOB 10/31/2003
DOP 1/2/2004
www.mercurymarauder.net
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my atx went in kinda the same way as your wife's....was on the freeway and needed more power to change lanes to merge onto another freeway on the way to moms house...usually i take the car out of overdrive to get the response i need at the time...this time when i pushed the button the revs went way up as if i had put the car in neutral...i tried clicking back into od but nothing happened...i slowed down my pace but managed to make it the last 10 miles or so to moms house
got out and checked the fluid and there was none!!! i just had the atx flushed 3 wks prior and assumed then that the tech's didn't refill the tranny but it would hve gone out much sooner if that was the case with the way i drive
added some fluid and tried ot drive it again but no good...
thanks to the limp home feature built in i was able to get back down the freeway a few miles to the nearest ford dealer and they confirmed 2nd and 4th (overdrive) gears were toast
felt really cool driving down the freeway doing 70 in 3rd gear....not...the rpms were somewhere around 4500 or more
2700 smackers for the fix thank goodness i had a used car warranty...with other work done (waterpump, therm, trans mounts and various other little items total bill was $4100...i paid 823 and the warranty co picked up the rest....if not for them i would be riding a 10 speed now
99 expedition eddie bauer, 5.4 v8, k&n drop-in, 3" magnaflow catback and gas mileage that makes the contour look like a hybrid
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