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Originally Posted by WagonWheel
Ouch!
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It didn't hurt that bad. The car was gifted to me by my dad, and I was 17 and gave it heaps, when the box failed he paid the 3600 for the rebuild with a shift kit. On pickup I got maybe half a kilometer down the road and it started ****ing out white smoke and not shifting, so I went straight back. They "fixed it" and a few months later it failed completely due to the use of non rated bolts in important places I was told. If I'm allowed I will name and shame, as I couldn't take the car back in the warrenty period as the nrma approved repairer had folded. $800 later with a second hand box that got me from 80k to 250k without missing a beat. When the second hand auto was fitted I was told the original was dropped. I asked "dropped?". They showed me the pan and it had the ugliest dodgy weld up the middle, worse then the scar on my uncle who removed his own appendix on station as the doctor in Antarctica. What grubs.