Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Transaxle The transmissions on these cars suck!!!

First off, this is a good idea to have this forum, nice thought Road Runner

Secondly,
My Bro's 95Se MTX-75 just [censored] the bed last weekend. This is after $1200 of clutch, hydralic, fuel filter work two months ago and 1 day after $150 of leaky manifold/other stuff work. All of a sudden, he couldn't get it into first or second gear in a mall parking lot. Was able to get home by starting out in third gear and basically not stopping.

Man it was funny, when I rolled into the driveway, the car was in the front yard with a $1500 for sale sign on it. He had basically had it with this car.

Well, we got in it, I had no problem getting into first or second gear. Only thing was, just as I would let the clutch out from being all the way on the floor, it would "bump" into gear. It happened in both first and second, obviously something wasn't right.

Brought it to our mechanic, as he was test driving it, all of a sudden crash/bang! Car won't move, got out and looked underneath, friggin pieces lying everywhere. There was a hole in the casing! And parts everywhere. He took what he could from the "scene of the crime" and basically told us its shot, not really worth rebuilding, as there was pieces all over the place inside there and we'd need to get a whole new casing, more work than its worth.

I have this one piece, looks like a rod, about an inch in diameter, that was broken. You know, my mechanic said its possible that the piece when it was cast had a bubble in it or something. You could see that it was simply solid cast metal, but it looked two two different colors of metal, one a darker shade of grey. I will post the broken piece and an example of the casing broken if I can find a digi.

So basically, this 'Tour is dead. Will cost about 1000-1500 I guess to fix, and we would be lucky to get 2 Gs for it, so my dad doesn't want to pay for it. My Bro doesn't have that kind of cash, still a college kid. Its too bad, he really liked that litle car. We'll probably donate the car to the Cancer Society of which my dad will get 28% of good market value for the car as a tax write-off, probably around 600. We did that for my previous ride, a '91 Merc Tracer, man that car had a peppy little engine, but tranny went, and I didn't want to spend the money to fix.

That is unless anyone wants to buy a "needs tranny work" 95SE with 120K on it?