Replace a transmission on 8 year old Yukon for $5800?

[Sharpsburg]

Have you priced the new ones?!? $5800 for a new transmission beats the hell outta $1500/mo for the next 5 years.

Very true. Just wondering if this is the first domino to fall.

 

[41mag]

Ride the bus. Get a m.cycle or bicycle. Take a cab or ride with a co-worker. Otherwise you going to have to fix the transmission, unfortunately

 

[InTune]

After owning several. I said I would never buy another Chevy Truck 14 yrs ago. I am a man of my word

 

[GeauxLSU]

185k original transmission. Zero issues. Maybe I shouldn't have typed that.
$5,800 does seem high. But what doesn't today?

 

[lostchild]

Thx all. my fear is sinking big money in now and then the AC or engine follows suit. Or both.

My feeling is that once you start down that road, the next major failure I’d say, ‘well, I already spent XX dollars, don’t want that to be wasted, let’s do it’. Then you’re several thousand in on a vehicle not worth that, and waiting on the next major fail.
Unless there was some special memory associated with it, I’d bail.
But as I always say, if you want to do the correct thing, watch what I do and do the opposite.

 

[srea76]

Try car-parts.com and you may find a transmission near you a lot cheaper from a salvage yard with low miles. It has the ability to search by distance from you.

 

[bilgerat]

04 silverado,... 225k , no problems other than normal wear items and a alternator. Still running strong, just got back from a Illinois hunting trip with it pulling the trailer and utv behind it. Wouldnt trade it for 2 fords and a ram!!!
and 5800 sounds way to high

 

[Bulldog Man]

That's is stupid high to replace the trans I would fix it at a good home town trans shop

 

[roydamnmercer]

Very true. Just wondering if this is the first domino to fall.

You never know, sometimes “trading in” is not “trading up”…that hunk of junk today maybe a classic tomorrow.

 

[Rougarou]

04 silverado,... 225k , no problems other than normal wear items and a alternator. Still running strong, just got back from a Illinois hunting trip with it pulling the trailer and utv behind it. Wouldnt trade it for 2 fords and a ram!!!
and 5800 sounds way to high

It's hard to beat a 2000-2006 Chevy truck they started having issues when they went to the 6 speed automatic transmission and the feature of dropping cylinders for highway mileage.