What is the general experience people have had with these transmissions? I've got 65000 on my 2000. Everything on it is great except I made a HUGE mistake.

Since my local dealer is extremely overpriced and always backed up, I figured that one of the "Instant Oil Change" places could change the transmission fluid. That will probably turn into a $3500 mistake. Turns out, this place uses the same machine on transmissions as does they do on coolant replacement. Not only is there a lawsuit in the making, I'm out way too much money in the short term.

Everything was fine on this car (except the throttle body) until I took it into this other place. These are are over engineered machines, but surely there is a way to fix this problem without a new transmission? Does Volvo recommend a new tranny whenever there is any noise? What about overhauls or something cheaper?

Any thoughts?

HPL;

Are you sure your transmission is messed up?

What symptoms did you have to determine that the throttle body was bad? Did you get a code for that?

Rich

The dealer said that the whining sounds I hear are coming from the transmission. I had another mechanic (who specializes in European) say the same thing. The car still runs fine, but the whine is getting a little worse. I thought it might also be the axle or driveshaft, but we were able to rule that out.

To your other question, the tach bounces between 750 and about 350 at idle. It's either the throttle or the master air flow. Dealer shop says it's the throttle, but I don't have much confidence in my local dealer at all.

HPL;

They usually look at the throttle body and see a carbon build-up and recommend cleaning it.

Rich

HPL;

Are you sure your transmission is messed up?

What symptoms did you have to determine that the throttle body was bad? Did you get a code for that?

Rich