Originally Posted by Storm13

Overall, I guess it's not "that bad"...

Had the work done by a local transmission shop who does damn good work. Parts were orded from Cobra Transmission to basically do a rebuild here instead of having a rebuilt one shipped.

Needed the chain, bearings, and a new planetary gear. It had been run without fluid in it for a loooooooong time. The mechanic showed me the gears, and each one should be held in by some washers. The washers had completely disintigrated and the gears were just wobbling around each other for lack of a better way to describe it.

Parts and labor to remove, rebuild, replace total just shy of $1,475. That's a far cry from BMW's $3,500 reman unit.