Fuel for Thought
It finally happened
Yesterday morning I woke up to a noise that I had never heard before. The van was free reving and I knew that it had finally happened. The inevitable, the transmission finally went to heaven. We have a 2006 Sprinter, that Nick bought new in April of 2007. It only had 230 miles on it when he got it home. 511,860 miles later it finally gave in. The life expectancy on most of them are about 250-350 thousand miles.
It was not due to our fault, it just natually happened. People ask how we got it to last so long. I am not sure to be honest, other than we have been very specific about our maintence schedule. We would change the transmission fluid about every 45,000 miles. We learned how to do it ourselves and it has saved us a significant amount of money.
We knew that it was going to happen one day, and we had done a lot of research on where to get a new one from, and the cost of it. We are saving ourselves about $7,000 by ordering it from somewhere else besides the dealership and having it shipped to them to install. In the mean time we are in a hotel in Knoxville relaxing. It should be here tomorrow, and we should be back on the road Friday afternoon, if things go as planned.
Jenny Marcu
Leased to Load1
2006 Sprinter