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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your car is 19 years old and has over 200,000 miles on it.  The transmission is starting to have problems.

It's time for a new card.  What happens in this situation is that you get the transmission fixed and something else breaks.  Things wear out eventually and at the age your car is at, it's time.  It's not a great time to be in the market for new cars given the current shortage so maybe you can stretch it for another year but not promises.

I had a car with a transmission problem before.  It left me stranded on the side of the road.  You're better off buying a new car than having your car break down and get stuck.[/quote]

Maybe, maybe not.  OP does need to evaluate the state of the rest of the car in terms of things that need to be replaced and/or might fail but I look at these repair costs in terms of what is the number of months of a car payment vs. how long the repair will last.  So, in this case, 2500 for a new transmission is about 6 months of a new car payment and assuming that it's done properly will last much, much longer than that so if the rest of the car is in decent shape, I might consider this repair particularly depending on where things stand in the budget and if there's "room" for a 4-5 year car note.  But, as others have indicated, I'd check out the info on the forums and probably try changing the fluid.[/quote]

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