Ed has personally repaired more than 1000 transmissions during his 45 years as a specialist in transmission repair. He knows transmission better than most mechanics and can diagnose a problem by sound and driving the vehicle.

To get an idea of the best way to get you Here is what Ed has to say People are looking for a good price. Looking for someone they can look in the eye. Okay. You know, like…you’re talking to the person who’s going to sell you on the job. I give people the time of day on the phone too. I ask a lot of questions, because I want to know as much as possible as to what their problem is with the transmission.

And if we can fix it without doing anything really major, spending big money, we do that. We drive them. You bring them in. I hook the scanner up right away. We drive it. We talk about it. There’s a lot of shops I hear that don’t let customers in the back room. They use the excuse of insurance. They don’t even drive their vehicles that they bring in.

And there’s many times that people think they have a transmission problem and they have a different problem But they’re blaming it on the transmission. It could be something in the transmission. You know saying things that make it sound like trouble because when the transmission shifts you get a different sound. But it may be something as simple as universal joints.Yeah clunking and stuff.

That’s why you have to drive and it amazes me a lot of times customers come to me and they say about something about other shop. They will say “ Well, they didn’t even drive it, you know, yeah, they spoke me a price and you know you’re buying a kit put together and the guy says this is what we do. They dropped out the old one and drop in the new one and it’s sixty two hundred dollars.

Well, you maybe can do it at an economical cost and give them actually probably a better product. You don’t know where that other transmission came from. They’re usually rebuilt. You’re not buying new ones.”

We’ve had a lot of people just park their car until they hear about us. My philosophy is getting rid of the problem. A lot of transmissions nowadays, they only fail in certain areas. It’s the same problems all the time. Torque converters make metal when they disintegrate. A torque converter works a lot nowadays.

So in a situation of understanding, you might have a transmission in a Chevy truck that the transmission is good. The torque converter is bad, but to get a full replacement, they want five to $10,000. But if you can go in there and pull it down, fix the torque converter, put it back in and we’re not going to give numbers, but for a lesser cost, that’s the proper solution.

Okay, they have a clutch in there that slips. It kind of makes the whole drive line and the engine performance level smoother. But it’s at a cost and they eventually they fail But you can take care of the torque converter and the things that you know fall apart because of it. It’s a domino effect. You need to go on there, clean the metal out and do whatever you need to do. But the rest of transmission is like brand new.