My Heavy Duty E4OD lasted 5,000 miles! I had to have it rebuilt properly just last week. Whoever built mine installed the wrong center support. It did not seat properly on the bearing and 2 of the 3 bolts were sheared off completely and gone. I learned that when Monster builds what they call a "heavy duty" version of the E4OD, they use aluminum planetary gears instead of upgraded steel. Either that or whoever built mine, took it upon themselves to save the company some money and leave the wore out aluminum planetary gears in core. I was a repeat customer to Monster and used to be convinced that they were better than that. So I put in a call to Customer Service to find out what happens when something gets by their quality control. Of course, Monster is a big, happening company these days and if you're interested in talking to somebody who actually knows something you need to wait for a call back. They said I would get a call back the next day. They said that for 4 days. Then, finally, 4 days later without ever making that return call back to hear my questions or my requests, they said that management had thought about it and decided they didn't really care if they had accidentally built a lemon because this particular E4OD had shipped to Alaska. As best as I could understand, they figure that Alaska is far enough from Florida that they just might get away with screwing over just one customer. It's funny 'cause the entire time you sit on hold, you have to listen to the little jingle that assures you that at Monster, they build more that just transmissions, they build relationships. Observation: Kinda hard to build a relationship if you only ever have a one-sided conversation. Still, I would have to agree, that at least in my experience with Monster, the quality and duration of their E4OD transmissions does indeed match the quality and duration of their relationships.
I do give one start 'cause I never spent more that 4 minutes on hold before Dallas picked up the phone. read more