H-E-E-L-L-P!!! BLOWN STICK TRANNY ON 4x4!!!!

gkainz wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:

There is something very fishy going on here and it is extremely hard to tell just what else has been SABOTAGED on this vehicle. Yep, that's right SABOTAGED. Drain plugs just don't happen to fall out, It was LEFT OUT :E . That car may have been a repo, lemon from a previous owner, trade in from a messy divorce, who knows...

I myself would not be comfortable driving a vehicle which may have other hidden retributions waiting to show up later...

The vehicle was abused... There are plenty of other used vehicles for sale..

Perhaps, but perhaps not. It could very well have been negligence on the dealer's tech - drained the tranny for fluid change and got interrupted before putting the drain plug and new fluid in - or shift change - or trusted the wash boy to finish the job - or ... any number of other things could have happened.

I would highly doubt that ANY "dealer" really, really "changes" all fluids in ANY vehicle that they take on trade or bought at auction (they might check the levels but doubt they would change them). That would be one every expensive proposition to say the least especially if you are turning over hundreds or thousands of vehicles every year.

The odds are the car was a "trade" and the dealer simply pushed it out on the lot for sale as soon as the ink dried on the sales contract...

I would still run away from this deal...