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Originally Posted by happytheman
Wow! Sorry to hear about the Echo! 
Hopefully the situation with the Juke gets cleared up soon! In for pics on purchase! |
Thanks. The Echo has been making a noise under load for about a year. We have 136,000 miles on her so we definitely got our money's worth. Anyway, I knew the noise was coming from the tranny input shaft bearing and we decided to just drive it until it failed. Kate picked me up at the airport Friday and driving back it was loud as heck. Yesterday I limped it over to Colin's shop to get it on a lift to check it out and get an opinion on a rebuild cost. It failed driving home and is now sitting on the street, dead, with a jammed transmission.
The upside is a new Juke. Another upside is that the owner of Colin's shop wants to buy the Echo as is for his daughter. The thinkg is in great shape (minus the current undriveability). It has brand new Yokohama Avids, nice rims, K&N intake, Koni Sport-D, Dynaflow exhaust and a new a/c system. It also gets 40 mpg.
The Juke SL is stitting, waiting for us. It is beckoning with its quirky siren song "come buy me".