Should I fix or sell; 2005 Civic LX 4dr
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Should I fix or sell; 2005 Civic LX 4dr
Recently I was really bummed to find out I had a bad final drive bearing in my transmission. It's an automatic and to replace the shop has to rebuild the transmission and it'll cost about $2600 to fix, assuming none of the gears in it are trashed. It's an 05 LX 4 door with side airbags with only 97000 miles. It's in excellent condition otherwise and has been meticulously maintained. It still runs and drives great but has growling / humming noise when it goes over 30 mph. I just bought new tires for it a little over a month ago.
My dilemma is that I don't really want to dump so much into it but my wife still likes it but even she's not sure we should keep it. I've done a lot of reading about these transmissions and it seems there's a lot of issues with it but supposedly it was improved in 2004. I'm not fully convinced this car is going to last another 97K miles or even half that. The shop I would use is a highly rated shop and talking to them they know this transmission very well.
Should I fix it or sell it?
My dilemma is that I don't really want to dump so much into it but my wife still likes it but even she's not sure we should keep it. I've done a lot of reading about these transmissions and it seems there's a lot of issues with it but supposedly it was improved in 2004. I'm not fully convinced this car is going to last another 97K miles or even half that. The shop I would use is a highly rated shop and talking to them they know this transmission very well.
Should I fix it or sell it?
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you don't have to rebuild the trans you can swap it out for a used one but that doesn't mean it won't happen again down the road so its up to you. my 04 dx automatic has close to 200,000 miles on it with no problems knock on wood but i replace my transmission fluid with every other oil change.if i was you i would shop around for a used trans and a shop to do the job.
Last edited by itburnswhenIP; 10-29-2015 at 04:46 PM.
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Unfortunately I haven't found any low mileage ones. I'm thinking now to pull it out and replace the bearings myself. I've done some reading and it may not be too terribly hard.
I have some transmission experience but not FWD.
I have some transmission experience but not FWD.
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