Hi all,
Back in June I took my 2011 Ram 1500 5.4 Hemi to Mister Transmission for....transmission issues. It was making a rattle sound (best I can describe) when I let my foot off the gas just after going into second gear. If I slightly apply gas, the noise would stop. Now, a few months later (and $2700 + tax less in my bank) the noise is back.
That they did/charge:
500 for inspection service
720 for labour
335 for seal kit
380 for torque converter
500 for rebuilt vb
210 for a pump
75 for fluid
18 for filter kit
7 enviro fee

First off, any thoughts on what would cause the noise and if what they did was the right fix (I know it would be tough diagnose just based on my description)

I feel I’ve been bamboozled. Thinking I would go to a different Mister Transmission to have it checked out, but want to be a little more informed/prepared. Any thoughts?
Thanks!

 

Likely you have a warranty of X miles or days... give the first place a chance to correct it before going to a second. These are likely to be franchise operations independently owned, and the first guy made the money on you not the second guy. What tranny do you have? 3 speed with overdrive? How many miles on the tranny before after the repair? Does it feel/sound like you are hitting the ripple/groves they mould into the highway sides? My 2001 did that after a tranny flush and when weeks later it started to do that, they put in a bottle of fluid conditioner and it took care of it for the duration of my ownership.

 

Yeah, take it back to the same place. Most of them give a 1 year/12,000 mile warranty on repairs. They should at least check it out for free.....

 

Thanks for the input guys.
@rsdata
I’m not sure what transmission it is. I attached a pic of the specs from the vin#
115,100 miles when it went in. 117,750 now.
I don’t think it is the fluid. The sound was happening before i took it in (that is actually why i took it in) and there was no transmission work prior to that.
I guess it sort of sounds like driving over the rubble strips, but not quite. Here is a video that has the sound. In the description are notes about when the sound happens.

@Hey You Yup, still on warranty. I’m worried about taking it back to him since he did almost 3k of repairs and the noise is back. It is a franchise like rsdata mentioned but they have a canada wide warranty

Any additional thoughts based on the sound in the video?

 

difficult to pick out the noise on the video that you hear from the regular road noise... I will describe my noise again as a shudder ( low pitched noise) that seemed very close to the shudder you would hear when driving on road edge rumble stripes... the road rumble strips would be MUCH louder, then what the tranny did, but about the same kind of noise only lower volume. It was not a tinny/metal clang noise more like a low rumble.

I actually never heard the noise until going freeway speed, like 60+ and it only happened when I let off the gas. If I would give it gas again the noise stopped. As long as I was on the pedal it did not make noise. This was back in 2000 as I recall, on a 1994 Dodge van 250, with 3 speed and OD. At the time I had about 100K on it, but I towed a boat back then all the time. Looks like your have 4 speed with OD which I believe was the next tranny out.

If that is what you hear/feel then again I will point to the pint bottle of friction modifier that was added to my newly filled/flushed tranny. It took about 1,000 miles or so as I recall before I had the shudder noise after having new fluid put in, but after hearing it a few times only on freeway steady speed driving I finally went to the tranny shop... as soon as I described the noise the fella came out of the shop with this maybe even 1/2 pint bottle of liquid and added it to the tranny. He said give this a day or so of driving and get back to me. That was my daily driver, and It took me a few days to get to the interstate, but when I did the noise was gone.

I hope this helps,
Roger

 

Hi

I have the same issue with one here in the UK sounds exacly like yours, did you get a fix for this

 

Hi valdice. I’ve not yet been able to have it looked at (been in the process of moving). Hoping to take it in this week. In the meantime, I’ve hardly driven it.

 

thanks for the expanded detail @rsdata What you describe is pretty close to what I have (letting off on the gas, noise begins, stepping on the gas, noise stops) but for me it is at much lower speeds. I’m taking it in this week. Cross m fingers that it is the same thing as yours.

Just as clarification, did the noise originally start for you after you had the fill/flush? Mine just started out of the blue.

 

how did this ever pan out? Been traveling and have not been reading/posting for awhile...