Hi I have a 1993 Nissan Maxima GXE with 109,000 miles. The car is fully loaded and in exellent condition. However, this week the tranny died. I guess this is a common problem. 109,000 miles to me seems quite premature. Is this the case? How many miles should one get on one of these trannys. Anyways a local tranny shop and the dealer both said it would be about $2800 for a rebuild and more for a new one. I decided to go with a new one from the local tranny shop. The price is $3438 with tax and includes a tranny cooler. What do you think of this? How is the price. Hopefully, I will now be able to get another 100,000 miles out of this car.

Thanks,

Dave

 

The tranny problems were supposed to be fixed in 93. The interal firction components were changed to better products. If you do a lot of city driving it is not suprising that it failed. city driving is espicaly hard on the tranny..

Price for a new one installed + tranny cooler sounds like a fair price. a friend of mine got a new one installed at a nissan dealer. I can't rember the price off hand, but it was in that ball park.

Fro

 

The solenoid pack may have died. Unless you like accelerate hard, if not then it shouldnt be a big $$ deal. The transmission has its own self diagnostics that you can run.