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Old 10-04-2009, 09:35 PM   #29
Variko
 
Drives: 2SS RS LS3 Black
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Cherry Hill NJ
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And no worries guys. I rebuild automatic transmissions. For years I hardly saw any toyota transmissions go bad before 150k miles. However, these cars had hampsters running them. Now they are putting some hp behind these things and they are breaking badly, and at under 50k miles. AW55/50sn, U140, U151 all crap. Big difference when you have to watch quality control on 1 million cars vs 100k, and much easier to make a reliable car with 100hp than 300hp. Toyota is learning this, and the general public is getting a wake up call when they get the bill for these transmissions. (side note there are a few gm cars that used the 55/50sn, but I believe they have stopped as Nissan did)
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