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Rule two on why used transmissions are a good value consists of some of the reasons people end up having to learn how to deal with a transmission failure situation. Rule one spoke of some of my personal woes with broken transmissions and how they bailed me out. Rule two is more about some of the driving habits that cause a transmission to break or fail.
Breakage is caused by different circumstances than a failure in most cases. Assuming you take care of your transmission and drive your vehicle accordingly, than one would expect to get as much or more than 200,000 miles out of a transmission before it wears out and has a failure. Obviously other circumstances can cause the transmission to break, even though you are not abusive and take care of it. Such as a tiny leak, or if the engine has overheated and the transmission fluid needs changing.
Failures usually occur at high mileage at the end of the lifespan of a component, as in transmissions in this case. Breakage is caused by a different set of circumstances most of the time. In my case it was a teenage son problem. Sometimes it may boil down to a new driver who is is learning how to drive a manual transmission.
My problems were pure abuse. I enjoyed doing burnouts, that is where you are at a stop, rev up the engine while the car is in first gear and dump (let out the clutch real fast) the clutch and feel the rear tires spinning and watch the tires smoke. Or when I shifted, I would ‘redline‘ or ‘tach it out‘, the engine while keeping the gas pedal wide open and literally ‘banging‘ it into the next gear so fast that it would not over rev the engine. That is a recipe for transmission mass destruction.
Driving a car that way does not do any favors to your clutch, so expect big time clutch problems if you drive the way I did. It helps to have a rich dad too. My dad was not rich, so at a certain point he quit subsidizing me if the problem had to do with abuse. That cured my breakage issues fast. I still own a really cool go fast car, a 1970 Porsche 911RSA, I have owned it over 12 years now, I actually inherited it from a neighbor from my childhood. I restored it at the cost of mucho $$$ (I’m embarrassed to say how much, but the car cost about 7500.00 dollars new, and I spent 5 times that amount to restore it), and believe it or not, It has never had a tire squealed or a gear banged.
I’m not saying I don’t drive it hard by most standards. It will rev 9000 RPM in every gear and corners like it was glued to the road, but I won’t beat on it or abuse it. I don’t have any problem with cornering hard or stopping fast. I totally enjoy the car without abusing it. Don’t be a reckless, disrespectful driver like I was or you better bookmark this page. GotTransmissions.com is who you will want to deal with if you like to drive the way I used to. You can buy good used transmissions with low mileage at a real affordable price. Call 866-320-1182.
BTW: Porsche is the most durable, best built car in the world. Especially if you want to buy a car you can literally take right to the road race course and beat it as hard as you can, then drive it home. Get up the next day and drive it like it never hit a racetrack. Try that with any other performance car and there will be a few leaks under it in the morning and you will have some major component damage not covered under warranty. That is why the Porsche 911 has won more road races than every all other cars combined.
