Transmission needs rebuild, need advice

[spidey3479]

I've had a reputable tranny shop rebuild one for my 88 SSE and my 01 SSEI. The SSE was $800 and the SSEI was $1200. Both had a 30 day warranty on anything. I have had no issues with either rebuild until last week. I have put about 80,000 miles on my SSEI since the rebuild and the drive band inside broke. Ended up costing $600 for them to pull the tranny get inside find and fix the problem, flush the system replace the filter and add new fluid. To me its worth it, I love the car and am going to keep it until I can't fix her anymore. You just have to figure out what you want and decide what you're limits are.

[yourgrandma]

Mine was 2200 out the door with pretty much everything except the hardened input shaft. Little on the high end but I know if/when things go wrong I should be taken care of.

[BobsBonneville]

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 of getting a rebuilt TEP tranny, then having it installed.

Yet I'm still considering selling it the way it is, taking a loss and moving on. I like Pontiacs though. I wish I could buy my 2000 WS6 Formula Firebird back, but that car was so rare that guy will never sell it back to me. I like everything about the GTO's, except that they look like a Honda. The whole point of buying this Bonneville was to have a nice car that I could drive summer and winter.

[00Beast]

Throw a trans in and drive it till it dies then, With 125k, it should last a lot longer...

[spidey3479]

I'm about to break 200,000 miles on her and I think I'm gonna need to replace the water pump, trans shop said it was weeping heavily, and new front shocks. I know that's been in my sig for the longest time. I'm keeping her, they're great cars! DD or toys or both!!!