Posted on 10/24/2016 9:04:01 AM PDT by Lorianne
Nick Carey
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Since I’ve had three transmissions rebuilt by my counties well known best transmission guy I am on a first name basis with him. I always do flushes and refills at 50k intervals. He tells me he doesn’t bother with flushes and/or drains because from his 30 years experience it doesn’t matter. It is all luck. He’s seen transmission last 300k that had zero maintenance done on them. He’s also seen them blow after 100K where the owner flush/filled every 30K. He stated flat out it is totally random and doesn’t matter about flushing or draining. BTW he does no maintenance on the his personal vehicles transmissions. Even the one he drag races with!
Don’t give them the wrong idea and have them start building cars like they do appliances.
$20,000, $30,000, $40,000 every couple years is unaffordable for most of us. Even if we finance it.
But, what the hey at least the healthcare industry is booming.
Six Year ZERO Percent Financing and multi thousand Dollar Incentives and Car Sales are falling 7% in one Month? WTH.
Note: Car sales are up slightly for the year. Month to month doesn’t tell much without a lot of background research.
Just reacting to the Headline on the Thread.
It is interesting that the vehicle brands with the biggest increase in sales are mostly premium: Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover, Jeep, Ram.
They’re advertising &89 per month here. Might be Hyundai not sure.
A co-worker was surprised that I only pay for a 3 year loan. He said why so short. I answered that I will not pay more then $10,000 total for a car. My 2003 Honda looks pretty good and runs like new.
Both of the transmission shops that I have used to replace my vehicle transmissions recommend flushing at 30K. They are honest shops and make lots of money when transmissions fail, and make no money when I flush on my own. A few dollars for ATF every two years is no big deal
Sales of cars and especially trucks will skyrocket if Hillary wins as her environmental policies will kill the pickup and SUV.
Here comes “Cash for Clunkers II”
Good insight.
Manufacturers are playing a game of chicken. Trucks and SUVs are being built in the USA while smaller vehicles are increasingly built in Mexico or overseas. Stifling larger vehicles comes at the expense of American workers.
customers wanting large vehicles are dying off
Probably. But the top-selling three vehicles in the USA are still full-size pickups, and the next several are the family sedans and smallish SUVs. That’s a long way from Europe, where VW Golf and Ford Focus top the market, followed by even smaller cars.
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