Well I still haven't decided lol. Its nice to hear what some of you have done facing a bad tranny situation. It looks like if I decide to keep and fix it.... its going to be 2-3k dollars. At first I didn't want to acknoweldge this, but I've accepted it now. If I did keep it I kind of like the idea ...

Well thanks for your input guys. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. I'm going to drive it the way it is for a while, or atleast till it strands me on the side of the road. I didn't realize this was going to be such a big money issue.

I had to rebuild my trans at 144k, 5k after I bought it, and I've put another 45k on it with no issues. A family friend who worked at Aamco in Mankato did it for me, and I've had no issues.

May I ask about how much it cost? I'm going to call a couple tranny shops tommorow, see if I can get a ...

Mine needed a rebuild, that's why I got rid of it for cheap.

Some here had them done but in those threads they still have problems when they were done by a "shop". Auto trannys can be a biznitch if the persons "thinks" they know them. That's why there are seperate trans shops.

I'm guessing you ...

Thanks for the link. Man, this is going to be expensive. I'm just trying to weigh my options here. I've only had this car for 6,000 miles too.

Anyone out there go through a tranny rebuild on one of these cars? I thought I heard that it was pretty common for these trannys needing rebuild around ...

So the other day I noticed that I lost overdrive in my 2003 SSEI. I looked at the common problems thread and losing overdrive was on there. Along with no overdrive, when the car is started cold and first driven, the shift lags a couple seconds too long in all gears... until it warms up to operating ...

Ya I just replaced my rear air shocks 2 months ago and I get the random clunk back there too.

Just an update, I was under the car today to replace the oil pressure switch and that bolt had worked its way loose again. Hmmmm. Something is causing that bolt to vibrate loose. And the bracket that bolt holds seems to go to the engine block from what I can tell.

Just installed it, about to see how it works after dinner here. Cool man, where is Fairfax?

From reading old threads here, I found out that there are rubber mounts behind each front wheel and directly behind the tranny. It seems like its kinda a sub-frame up under there with mounts squeezed to the body. Also from reading, these rear mounts usually stay in good shape on these cars and some ...

So about a month ago my oil pressure gauge was pinned. I read on the common problems thread that they go bad on these cars. Soon after I did an oil change and replaced the switch at the same time with a new one. The gauge now worked and everything was fine until about a week ago, when after driving ...

Ok so I was under the car a few hours ago due to a oil pressure switch issue, and I looked at the rear mount, and it was in good shape. But looking around I noticed that a bolt was loose where the front axle goes into the tranny. On that half circle part where the axle comes out, the bolt on top was ...

Ya, I also replaced my front engine mount that was in bad shape, and the problem still persisted. Could it be the other engine mount that needs replacing? Where is it located?

Hi all, I'm new here, and this looks like the best forum for Bonnevilles. I have a 2003 SSEI, 125k miles. Since I bought it a few months ago, any time the car runs up into the 3-4k rpm range, there is a vibration. The only way I can describe it is like a pulsing vibration or shutter. It only happens ...