I had a wheel alignment on my 2004 SLE, after having two cradle mounts replaced the other day.

Tha creaking and clicking is gone now completely and she is tracking straight as an arrow ... Cheers

Well, we ended up replacing two cradle bushings and the creaking is gone ... Now i will get an alignment and hopefully I'm done ...

Ok, so I took the car back to the tranny shop this morning and they confirmed that the Tranny overhaul included a complete front to back rebuild.

Later I got a call that 4 of the 6 sub-frame bushings have to be replaced and that they were ordered and should be installed tomorrow. The total ...

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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a $50 shift kit would have cured your harsh shifting issues.

My car has cradle bushings that are toast and they creak a lot when going over uneven surfaces ...

J Wikoff wrote:Are they your issue source now? I don't know.

Thanks for the response & guess I'll find out Monday when car goes back to the shop ...

I purchased my fully loaded 2004 Bonny SLE near Boston MA, in 2014 w/ 72,000 miles on the odometer.
The car has been pretty much trouble free, however earlier this year I started getting rough shifting between 1&2 and 2&3d gears after driving for 20-30 minutes. So last week w/ 118,000 miles on the ...