We want to buy a 97 Civic EX with an auto tranny for my wife, but the owner says that the automatic transmission slips.

Is this difficult to fix? Do I need to just rebuild the tranny or replaced it with new one?

Also, does anyone has experience with Lucas Auto Transmission slip fix fluid? I've read somewhere that it works good.

 

haha oh dude that kinda fluid is like bartol no smoke for you car, bandaid man, you'll beed a rebuild, clutches and bands etc,,,, yadayadayada

 

yeah just what I thought. my friend will help me with tranny rebuild or prolly replace it

 

Just replace the tranny.

 

that's what I did. Found a 95k tranny for 175.00 and it took 5 hours to replace it. I had my friend help me, a lift, tranny jack and we took our time. It is definitely a whole afternoon type of thing.

Either rebuild it, buy a rebuilt one or find a used one for cheap. Only problem if it's used is that you won't know the condition of the tranny.

 

yeah...I'm thinking of buying this car for $3k with tranny slip issues. good deal? yay or nay?



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personally i would just replace the tranny... to me there is no point in rebuilding an auto tranny imo

 

not a good deal imo. you'll be buying another set of headaches.

 

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With a slipping trans and the wing you can guess what kind of person was driving it...its more then likely the car has been beat on.

 

I would demand an air cleaner assembly if I was to buy it.

 

haha, i totally didn't see that. where the heck is the air cleaner assembly anyways?

 

as usual thanks again for the help guys. I will look for another DD car then

 

Thats the best idea, Not a good deal at all.