Hello everyone, I am new here. I joined up to learn more about a car my sister just purchased.
So I will start from the beginning. LOL. My sister jumped the gun and purchased an 02 300M with the 3.5L, before I had a chance to go with her to look at it. Dumb, I know, but can't change it now. Haha.
She has only had the car for a less than a week, and most of those days it have been spend in the used car shop where she purchased it from. The check engine light was on when she purchased it, and the used car dealer said he would do a tune up on it to cure the check engine light. She gets the car back, drives less than 30 miles and the tranny went into limp mode. And of course now, the used car dealer won't offer any help to repair that issue. It actually turned into a pretty ugly debate back and forth as first he said he would fix it or let her pick a different car. But upon him looking at it, he nows says she will need to pay half of the $1200 repair bill. I called a local transmission shop to get another quote, and low and behold, they already looked at the car. They laughed when I told them what I was quoted to repair it. He said he told the dealer the valve body would need to be replaced for a $550. So we are getting the typical "lets make more money of this deal" from the used car dealer.
I have checked the codes and she is getting several. P0700-Trans control sys malfunction, P0841-Trans fluid pressure/switch A CKT Range/Perf, P1776- Manufacturer specfic, and the P0700 code again. This was all in a 15 minute drive I took this morning.
I have been reading on the forum and doing some research myself. My question is, do you guys feel it is a valve body problem, or possibly something else? I have read about possibly bad contacts in the PDC, bad crank sensor, and faulty solenoid packs.
She had been saving her money for quite some time to purchase a used car, and this one pretty much cleared out the savings already. She can't really afford to just start throwing parts at this car, so looking to see if we are best to just let the local tranny shop put a valve body in it,or start looking at the other possible issues.
I am fairly mechanically inclined, but have usually let the tranny work be handled by the pros. How much work is involved in swapping a valve body?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks
Shawn
So I will start from the beginning. LOL. My sister jumped the gun and purchased an 02 300M with the 3.5L, before I had a chance to go with her to look at it. Dumb, I know, but can't change it now. Haha.
She has only had the car for a less than a week, and most of those days it have been spend in the used car shop where she purchased it from. The check engine light was on when she purchased it, and the used car dealer said he would do a tune up on it to cure the check engine light. She gets the car back, drives less than 30 miles and the tranny went into limp mode. And of course now, the used car dealer won't offer any help to repair that issue. It actually turned into a pretty ugly debate back and forth as first he said he would fix it or let her pick a different car. But upon him looking at it, he nows says she will need to pay half of the $1200 repair bill. I called a local transmission shop to get another quote, and low and behold, they already looked at the car. They laughed when I told them what I was quoted to repair it. He said he told the dealer the valve body would need to be replaced for a $550. So we are getting the typical "lets make more money of this deal" from the used car dealer.
I have checked the codes and she is getting several. P0700-Trans control sys malfunction, P0841-Trans fluid pressure/switch A CKT Range/Perf, P1776- Manufacturer specfic, and the P0700 code again. This was all in a 15 minute drive I took this morning.
I have been reading on the forum and doing some research myself. My question is, do you guys feel it is a valve body problem, or possibly something else? I have read about possibly bad contacts in the PDC, bad crank sensor, and faulty solenoid packs.
She had been saving her money for quite some time to purchase a used car, and this one pretty much cleared out the savings already. She can't really afford to just start throwing parts at this car, so looking to see if we are best to just let the local tranny shop put a valve body in it,or start looking at the other possible issues.
I am fairly mechanically inclined, but have usually let the tranny work be handled by the pros. How much work is involved in swapping a valve body?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks
Shawn