Recently a friend bought me a 02 Camry le auto for $220. The story behind it is, lady had it for two years, would take it to lex broodies often. Had engine flush, spark plugs, tune up etc recently. Kept up oil changes. And I guess one day two weeks ago, it wouldn't go into gear. And would loose gears. So she let it sit. Got it on tow truck, sent to lex broodies. Lex said, get a new trans and gave her a quote for a new one.
So she posted for sale for $800, bought for $220.
So I started it up, drove fine. Shifted a lil weird. Drove home, drained all trans fluid I could from drain plug, was about 4 quarts. Fluid was close to brown. But when checked dipstick beforehand didn't smell burnt.
Filled it up with 3 quarts of new fluid and 1 bottle of Lucas trans fix.
And have been driving it for 2 days now. Drove a couple hours yesterday. Some highway speed and seems to do ok.
No shavings were found on the drain plug.
So could the trans actually be ok? Or am I just getting my hopes up and it may go to <profanity removed> in a few days.
What's a way I can find out.
Did I save the transmission??
Has 145k miles, only one code for check engine, cat system code
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Might be OK for a while, how long is anyone's guess. If the old fluid wasn't gritty the friction surfaces are probably still in decent shape, and no metal shavings is a good sign.
So it's a definite maybe. It could work for years. It might crater tomorrow. Hard to complain about a running car for $220 though. (That's about a day's rental!)
I have no idea who Lex Broodie is. Anything like Lex Luthor?
Aloha, um lex broodies is a tire shop l, but they do other small repairs as well