Originally Posted by tinkerer

Hello,


I just joined the forum, and it looks great. I am located in the Chicago area, and have been casually looking for a Crossfire convertible over the past couple of months. My question is: How reliable is the Crossfire Automatic transmission? For those of you that had to rebuild the transmission, what did it cost, and did you have any trouble finding someone to work on it? My recent experience with Fords is that the automatic transmission is only good for 90-100K miles at best. I know this is apples and oranges, but being a mixed component vehicle of Mercedes and Chrysler I am concerned that a transmission job might cost as much as what these cars are currently selling for. I know how to drive a manual transmission, but it's a distant second choice for various reasons.


Thanks in advance for your input.


Terry