Hello Good forum People and Happy Holidays
I have a 2004 158" tall roof with just about 125K miles,,I bought it back in October, I've taken it on several trips with out incident. early December I drove from Massachusetts to Miami and back without a problem..last week I had loaned it to a friend to collect some windows for a job about 2 hours away..on the return the trans quit..as he was running had to coast to a stop..no forward, no reverse..all the gears showed on the dash but no movement, what-so-ever..if a gear was selected the revs. would not go beyond 2500..if neutral was selected it would rev normally.. There are no CEL lights on the dash..and no codes on the scangaugeII to be found..it was towed to a shop in East Providence R.I. Alturi Bros. yesterday they said they were 99% sure that my valve body would need to be replaced @ somewhere around +$1000 bucks today I received a call that they pulled the valve body and it was "FULL" of metal and my only option was a new trans. at a minimum of $4400. I of course have an email out to Andy Bittenbinder to see if theres a better option.
Also while i was in Miami, due to a bad parking decision the van was towed..not sure how it was..if put on a flat bed or hooked up from front or back and it wasn't towed far maybe 5 miles,,I do remember reading a warning about towing before..any ideas if this had some cause in the transmission fail?
Michael
I have a 2004 158" tall roof with just about 125K miles,,I bought it back in October, I've taken it on several trips with out incident. early December I drove from Massachusetts to Miami and back without a problem..last week I had loaned it to a friend to collect some windows for a job about 2 hours away..on the return the trans quit..as he was running had to coast to a stop..no forward, no reverse..all the gears showed on the dash but no movement, what-so-ever..if a gear was selected the revs. would not go beyond 2500..if neutral was selected it would rev normally.. There are no CEL lights on the dash..and no codes on the scangaugeII to be found..it was towed to a shop in East Providence R.I. Alturi Bros. yesterday they said they were 99% sure that my valve body would need to be replaced @ somewhere around +$1000 bucks today I received a call that they pulled the valve body and it was "FULL" of metal and my only option was a new trans. at a minimum of $4400. I of course have an email out to Andy Bittenbinder to see if theres a better option.
Also while i was in Miami, due to a bad parking decision the van was towed..not sure how it was..if put on a flat bed or hooked up from front or back and it wasn't towed far maybe 5 miles,,I do remember reading a warning about towing before..any ideas if this had some cause in the transmission fail?
Michael