Getting the news that your current transmission is beyond repair is often a bit of a shock, especially when it comes to the price of getting your car back on the road. However, if you have a decent vehicle that is otherwise in good mechanical shape remanufactured automatic transmissions can be a good investment and allow you to get years more driving out of your car.
What Are Remanufactured Automatic Transmissions?
To keep it simple, all remanufactured automatic transmissions are rebuilt transmissions but they are done at a specialized shop or plant. A rebuilt transmission, on the other hand, is done usually at a transmission shop and then installed back in the vehicle it came out of.
When you order remanufactured automatic transmissions you will be getting a transmission that is similar to the one that originally came with your vehicle, but it is not the actual transmission that came out of your car or truck. This means that there may need to be very slight adjustments made by your transmission shop to ensure that the transmission is correctly matched to the corresponding parts of the engine and differential in your vehicle.
Machining or Replacing
When the plant or facility that handles the work for remanufactured automatic transmissions receives a transmission it is completely broken down to individual components. These are all cleaned and machined or replaced based on their degree of wear or age on the parts. This is not always true when you are relying on a less than top quality shop that is completing rebuilt transmissions that may actually put back slightly used parts without machining them first.
Warranty Issues
Depending on the shop that completes a transmission rebuild, the warranty may be just a few months or it may be longer. On the other hand with remanufactured automatic transmissions the warranty may be as long as two or three years.
Depending on the degree of damage to the original transmission and the amount of driving that the car will be used for in the next few years, remanufactured automatic transmissions may be the best possible option for you to consider. Talk to your transmission specialist and ask about your options, then make the decision to rebuild or replace. See us for all your remanufactured automatic transmissions needs. For more information go to Trannyman.net.
