Possible Lemons car

George Bright · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:17 am

My brother in law wants to sell their '98 Ford Taurus. It has a bad automatic transmission. Slipping real badly. The car ran well until the transmission puked. It will still move under it's own power but not much more. He is calling junkyards to see if anyone will take it and pay him. I expect the junkyards will offer $0 and take it away. The heater also does not work well but this is not a problem for Lemons or chumpcar. Make offer. It looks like this.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:50 pm

If he's looking at $0 for "make it go away", we'll be glad to add it to the non-honda collection. :-)

(Heh, will a D15 fit in there.)

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:54 pm

Pretty much any car will bring $100+ at a scrap yard. All you need to do is get it there.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2015 2:58 pm

Parted out would be worth more, but then you're taking it apart. And if you're going that far, transmissions aren't that hard to fix. (read: replace)

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2015 12:54 am

I've owned three of those. The AXOD Metric transmission is prone to failure, relatively expensive, and relatively difficult to replace. Sometimes you can get away with pumping solvent through it while cycling the shift solenoids. I did that twice when my last one started slipping, and it made it last a couple more years before the transmission really died. It's a shame, because those old Vulcan motors will go forever.

The heater core gets plugged with rust from the iron block, and generally clamping the heater line to a garden hose and back-flushing it would clear mine. I used to do that every year when it got older.

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:18 am

Vincent Keene wrote:

Pretty much any car will bring $100+ at a scrap yard. All you need to do is get it there.

And a lot more if you're willing to cut out the catalytic converter and remove some easy to get to aluminum like the radiator, condenser, etc.

--Donnie

George Bright · **Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2015 6:48 pm

My brother in law is not very motivated or mechanically inclined. He also does not have a garage to work on it.

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12lyKTAa50

That damn song has been burned into my memory since 1986. I hear it in my head every time I see on of these POSes.

Michael Westerfield · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:35 am

MikeWhitney wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12lyKTAa50

That damn song has been burned into my memory since 1986. I hear it in my head every time I see on of these POSes.

Wow, I have never seen that. It is safe to say the future did not hold the dreams they promissed. Thanks for burning that in my head too.

Arthur McDonald · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 1:54 am **Posts:** 2052

MikeWhitney wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12lyKTAa50

That damn song has been burned into my memory since 1986. I hear it in my head every time I see on of these POSes.

That AXOD transaxle was a GM design that Ford built under license. The first gen Taurus was wildly popular and saved Ford in the 80s, and it looked and drove better than any moderately priced mid-sized 4-door sedan available in the US. GM could at least chuckle about the transmission joke while they scrambled to make their mid-size A-body cars look more like Tauruses.

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2015 9:05 am

Vincent Keene wrote:

Pretty much any car will bring $100+ at a scrap yard. All you need to do is get it there.

Call LKQ for a quote with either drive it or they tow it. He may be pleasantly surprised.

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