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BeQuietAndDrive
12-17-2004, 06:37 PM
After reading about Takumi's ordeal, I started to wonder about the strength of the Toyota transmission.

However, Takumi's problem was with the torque converter, right? I haev the manual tranny which has no torque converter..so, I hope I won't run into any problems like he did.

florencescion
12-17-2004, 07:19 PM
After reading about Takumi's ordeal, I started to wonder about the strength of the Toyota transmission.

However, Takumi's problem was with the torque converter, right? I haev the manual tranny which has no torque converter..so, I hope I won't run into any problems like he did.

Every once in a while a person or two is going to have a problem with their tranny... it's normal. If this were a GM car then I would start to worry. I used to be an avid W-Body guy (Grand Prix, Buick Regal, Monte Carlo, Impala). Those cars have trannys made out of glass... especially in the supercharged vehicles. I had a 98 Buick Regal GS and I got rid of it when I blew the tranny for the 2nd time in a year. Every day when I log onto www.clubgp.com there is someone talking about blowing their tranny.

I wouldn't worry about the xA/xB tranny. If every day a new person has a problem, then you can worry.

matt_a
12-17-2004, 07:45 PM
I think Takumi was trying to tow a horse trailer or something. :wink: :D

hahaitzskippy
12-17-2004, 07:52 PM
i have a feelin my tranny is going t ofall apart.


my tranny is performaning so poorly...


not smooth.

IMO

mlavander
12-17-2004, 08:07 PM
Is it a Toyota U140 trans?

TakumiJr
12-18-2004, 05:46 AM
I think Takumi was trying to tow a horse trailer or something. :wink: :D

Man, driving my punk ___ 250lb brother can do that to your tranny 8) . Enough though my torque converter/tranny is messed up... I've driven it for the last week without any major problems. So, I still think toyota's trannies/ Toyota are still reiable. Just bad things tend to come to me lately... first gf break up, failing school..now car. enough rant... ill go back to my thread.

nest
12-19-2004, 07:49 AM
It's an automatic?
Do you drive it hard? Shift out of D into 3 or 2 and back while rolling down the road? Stuff like that?

asirvr4
12-19-2004, 10:25 AM
It's an automatic?
Do you drive it hard? Shift out of D into 3 or 2 and back while rolling down the road? Stuff like that?

that would mess the tranny...also shifting from N to D while the car is moving at a speed..