E46 330Ci knackered auto-box

[LordGrover]

My old 330Ci has given up the ghost at 127k miles.
It's in okay condition except the automatic gearbox has failed - it won't go higher than third. I gather it's c. £2,000 to replace - I can't justify that on a 2002 car with that many miles.
What do you reckon; scrap it or try to sell? If sell what do you think it's worth?

[DennisCooper]

Instant £500 or so off!

I had mine rebuilt 30,000 or so miles ago by these guys

http://automaticman.co.uk/

Based in Acton West London, so not sure how close you are to them.

Friendly free advice line as well!

3 days, and for me the job was done and I'm very happy ! I was charged £1250+VAT in 2007, so probably a touch more now I'd have thought.

Cheers, Dennis!

[Fox-]

LordGrover said:

My old 330Ci has given up the ghost at 127k miles.
It's in okay condition except the automatic gearbox has failed - it won't go higher than third. I gather it's c. £2,000 to replace - I can't justify that on a 2002 car with that many miles.

Why cant you? Why does the age of the car affect your ability to justify its repair? It's still worth at least £4000.

It would seem to be to be a no brainer to repair it unless you are confident that you can replace it for less than the cost of the repair with a car as good as yours.

Which I doubt you can.

Just fix it, but as said above you can do better than £2k.

[taylor86]

there is a fantastic company in kent that do it in a day on my work truck for circa £1000 in august this year, i will try find them again, but they do advertise on ebay.

It is silly to think an 8 year old car with a broken gearbox is worth scrapping.

[BlueProp]

http://www.automatictransmissions-uk.com/

or

http://www.drivertransmissions.co.uk/index.html