I bought a used tranny several years ago for my 96. My old tranny went out when I was going through a car wash. When you pull in to car wash you are supposed to switch into neutral. Well, I tried and couldn't. Had to go through the car wash in drive. Then I had to drive my car to a shop in second gear because it wouldn't shift out of the gear it was stuck in.
Anyway, bought a used transmission online that was from a car with 120,000 miles. Mine had, I think, around 180k at the time. Transmission cost $800 and it cost $400 to have a shop install it. I have put over 100k on the transmission with no problems. To have my transmission rebuilt would have cost me like $2700 and a new transmission would have cost like $3200.
I think the used transmission came with a 90 day warranty. I did some reading online and this seemed to be a good warranty because people say if you are gonna have problems they will happen way before 90 days.

 

Say WHAT??

 

lol,because it pulls u along? I assume is what he is talking about...didn't think it would ruin a tranny tho

 

The car wash didn't mess up my tranny. My tranny just stopped working when I pulled into the car wash. I thought it was funny that it picked that time to go out because I had to drive through the car wash in drive.