Just before I drove to Los Alamos from Seattle (Feb. 2002) I had a complete maintenance done at the Ford dealers, including transmission fluid change. I've put about 10k miles on the car since then. I'm having it towed tomorrow to a Ford dealer in Santa Fe that I've heard is quite good. Since this morning I've heard from some co-workers about very bad transmission repair experiences at the garage in Los Alamos where my car is now, so definitely a second opinion is worth a $70 tow charge!
