Aamco Transmissions

User Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

Do not go here... They broke my master Cylinder, My A/C lines, dented my door, cracked my headlamps, and damaged my front driverside axel at least twice! The 1st time they fixed my Tranny the car would not go into gear properly, nor did it shift properly... "Not a problem, you do not need to use the lower gears anyways." Then, they said I must of damaged my linkage, eventhough it worked perfectly prior to them "fixing it". They ordered a new one, another week without my car, because the key wouldn't come out! Not to mention they promised the car the 1st time in a week, and a month later they never started the work. This became a regular issue... I had to play hookie from work, while trying not to lose my 8-5pm job! The damaged cable turned out to be a bent linkage! After several complaints, and them test driving the car saying it's fine... the tranny died. After I convinced them to fix it. The 1-week promised turned into 3 weeks of me paying for a rental because they didn't want to and I need a car for work.
I get the car back finally and the key will not come out again, last time this happened they somehow disabled my daytime running lights and do not know what they did! It still doesn't work. To get the key out so no one steals the car, I had to hop on my laptop, research the problem and tell the mechanic how to remove the key. Both him and the owner had no idea how to do this! They blamed a solinoid, I asked them to check for damaged/low voltage. 3 days later and 2 solinoids later they finally realized it was the wire. They gave me back my car and it was shifting extremely hard. I turned around and told them, they said "That's fine, we actially have some customers who request this." I told them I didn't want it to shift hard. They told me to drive it for a few weeks. I brought it back and again, it's fine. I predicted 2-3 months, roughly 2 months later it started to fail. I brought it straight to them. The owner took the car out and said, "It's the same problem as before. I'm not going to fix it again. I already fixed it once for free and I am not spending another $500 to fix it!" After charging me roughly $2000 the 1st time to fix it!
I drove it home, and with my electro mechanical background decided to take a look, especially since I been having wierd electrical issues intermittently. There is a plug (same one that tell the ignition to release the key) and it was sodiered to a small thicker red wire that had a different pin then the origional wires. Besides the factory electric tape no electric tape, a horrible sodiering job, and a exposed green wire right next to it! When refused to fix it, he accussed me of somehow doing something to destroy my transmission, like he accused me of breaking everything else they broke! I asked him, since they had an electrical issue with the solinoid, and I had issues with my radio and electric seat heater, if it could be an electrical issue on an electricly controlled tranny. He said no way, as usual... After seeing these two bare wires and multiple experiances with them over the last 1 1/2yrs trying for them to fix the origional issue, I think these wires may be too blame, especially the thick badly pinned wire, with a huge glob of sodier and no electrical tape or shrink tubing to protect it from all the metal it is surrounded by!
This is at the MGM Plaza formerly Cottman Transmission... didn't realize when I had the car towed there it was the same people. The Transmission specialest had rebuilt my tranny, jack up the origional price after I gave him the part, plus he refused to drop it or install it, just rebuild it! My sister crashed into the car so I can't rate the repair job... but he didn't know how to set the shift cable, the one that tells the car to downshift when you press the gas roughly 75%+.
Please, go anywhere but here... if you do, I wish you better luck!

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