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Mystery Transmission Sticker

Thanks to Glen Murdock


At Wednesday, 30 May 2001, "Adam Welling" <adamsv8sho@hotmail.com> wrote:

>When my car was on the lift today. I noticed that there was a sticker on the tranny. The sticker was from ford. It said ax4n exchange program.It also had a tsb on it to reference. I can't remember which one it was. Could this mean my tranny was replaced? If so add me to the list of tranny failures. Possibly, don't know what happened to it.Bought the car two years ago with 51,000 miles on it. Now has 86,345 miles on it. Buford update me in the high mile club.
>Adam Welling
>96 SHO


That sticker means nothing. It is only used on the original transmission. When the cars were first built Ford wanted to document early transmission failures. They didn't want the dealers opening them up and tampering with the evidence. Upon instruction from Ford, the dealer would simply remove the tranny, replace it with a new or rebuilt one and ship the old one back to Ford for inspection. They did this on all years for a certain length of time, typically 3-5 months.

Glen Murdock
Port Lavaca,TX
97 Pacific Green 62K
89 Currant Red 126K


My transmission had a sticker like that but the dealership got greedy and rebuilt it any way thinking it would make more money rebuilding than just replacing with a fresh unit. Then they got in it and so much needed replaced they took a bath.

I can live with that, if the transmission holds up.

Buford


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