I really don't have the words to express how bad of an experience I had with Affordable Transmission (AT). The first thing you should do if you are considering taking your car to AT is to figure out what the owner's name is (I'm not putting it here as I'm guessing it will be deleted) and google him. It won't take you long to learn what kind of person and business owner he is. I found the owner to be dishonest, unethical, and incompetent at every turn. There is a website (as of this writing) dedicated to what a dirtbag (DB) he is, so clearly there are others that have had a similar experience to mine.
I brought my son's car to AT, only because it was near his work and would be easy for him to coordinate getting to work while his car was in the shop. The car is a 2009 Nissan Versa with a transmission issue that another shop had also identified as a problem, so I'm confident there was a problem with the transmission. AT took the transmission off to diagnose the problem, and told me there was 'significant damage' and that it needed replaced. I talked it through with DB, and after he told me that he found a used transmission with only 9,000 miles on it, I elected to go that route instead of spending a lot more money on a new transmission. DB told me that the transmission was covered under a 90 day warranty, but that the labor associated with the work was not covered. I said OK, and they got a used transmission from LKQ and installed it. I spent $1900 on the used transmission with 9K miles on it.
Then, within a week, the clutch began to slip on the car, which had never been an issue prior to DB and AT working on the transmission. I brought it back to AT, and DB said that there was a fluid leak from the rear main seal that was getting on the clutch. I called the mechanic that I had used in previous years (Brown's Alignment - great people) to get a second opinion and they first asked why the rear main seal wasn't replaced when the transmission was since it's a cheap part and is completely duplicative labor to the transmission work. I called DB back and asked him to do the work at a reduced cost due to the duplicative labor issue, and he said that he had installed the transmission 'per my instructions' and that there I had not asked him to install a rear main seal. So DB, the car repair expert, apparently expects me to know when there is duplicative labor on repairs and to tell him when/what to do with a car, even though I'm bringing it to him as the expert. I should've walked away then, but felt like I had a lot of money tied up in AT and wanted to stick it out to make sure I wasn't going to compromise my warranty on the transmission, etc. So, I paid DB another $1100 for a rear main seal and clutch.
Then, the clutch immediately began slipping again within a couple days. Seriously. I brought the car back to DB, and DB said there was a slave cylinder leaking. So, he replaced the clutch again and installed the slave cylinder. He did not charge me for this work, as he shouldn't have since he didn't fix the leak or the clutch problem I had just paid him for. So, then the clutch began slipping again within a couple days. Seriously. So, after AT and DB replaced the slave cylinder THREE more times (yes, the definition of insanity) and it did not fix the clutch problem, they sent the car to the dealer to figure out what the problem was since they could not due to their incompetence.
The dealer found that the transmission that AT had installed was defective, which was causing the fluid leak and resulting in the clutch issue. So, DB got another used transmission for the dealer to install and paid $200 for a clutch kit for the dealer to install, but wouldn't cover any of the labor for any of the work, even though the leak and the clutch issue were a direct result of DB's incompetence. So, I had to pay the dealer another $1300 to fix the problems that DB couldn't figure out but that I had already paid him for. This was all after DB assured me on numerous occasions that if the dealer found that any of the issues the car was having were a result of mistakes AT had made, that he would 'make it right' and 'take care of me'.
In conclusion, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TAKE YOUR VEHICLE TO AFFORDABLE TRANSMISSION. THEY ARE INCOMPETENT AND UNETHICAL, AND WILL NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR WORK. read more