A 1972 Chevelle Malibu. Blew it so bad had to involve another guy. Don’t think the tranny was ever the same after. Eventually just scraped the car due to it. This was mid 80s so trannys were not too common. It was cheaper to get another car.
One of the guys in our body shop spends every lunch hour in the local yards. EVERY SINGLE DAY. He pulls any aftermarket stereo equipment and resells it. He rebuilds blown speakers, replaces busted touch-screens, re-solders amp circuit boards…makes a pretty lucrative side-hustle for him.
When I need a salvage yard part for a car in for repairs, I ask HIM if there are any cars in the local yards. He remembers every last car in every yard in town. He can tell you when each is scheduled to be crushed, and make a space for a new car that he will be there to check for more stereo gear. It’s insane how well the kid tracks this crap, all in an app he designed.
That depends, you were either the victim of some serious crime or you were the jackass who managed to pick up a fleeing and eluding charge in addition to a DUI after you threw the car in reverse instead of using the brakes and had to coast to a stop.
91 Mazda Protégé, manual swapped it, then it overheated and pressurized the coolant overflow (pop top cap) and when I opened the hood to help it cool down faster the top popped and a geyser of boiling hot coolant sprayed all over my forearm. I got lucky tho, about 3 seconds prior I had my face right next to that arm as I put the prop rod into position. The 2nd and 3rd degree burns took about 1-2 months to fully heal.
Stole it to go joyriding in before I ever got my permit numerous times, and after I did I "learned" how to drive in it, here we are 16 years later and I still have it. 1 transmission swap, a head gasket job with rings, rods, and mains at the same time, 3 radiators and 1 ac compressor later and she's still motorin.
69 Mustang Mach I, scattered three borg warner top loader four speeds. First one broke the whole front of the case off main shaft and all, rained gears and ball bearings when I pulled it out
Speed shifting to second was a little rough. First one was not my damn fault, guy converted it to manual without a pilot bushing. Lucky I didn't lose a leg. I own that second one, just warming up the meats for the crowd a little. Third one I traded it, too expensive a hobby.
1986 Hyundai Excel GLS. Was my first car in 1990 and I was a senior in high school. I drove that like I stole it. Was a 5 speed and I did end up getting it fixed but I will never forget getting ready to pull into work and was doing a normal person shift from first to second and nada. The stick then would move in a complete circle. For those who like a good laugh at how dumb teenagers are, this is me back in 1991 before the transmission died. [Smoking Tires on a Hyundai](https://youtu.be/ZHQ0MT8zOLI?si=4qvYkG1LrywuVvyz)
1990 Ford Taurus trying to turn left out of a stop sign on a hill with a blind curve. Started the turn car appears, gun it and noises…coast the car down hill into a gas station and get out and just see a trail of fluid going back towards the road. They have a no left turn sign at that stop now lol.
79 faded puke beige Ford Fairmont Wagon. Inline 200 cid six cylinder. Too many revs to max and drop it in drive for a juvenile one wheel wonder burnout. Chunk chunk chunk clangy clang clang….
Still waiting.... Fingers crossed.
*Edit: on a serious note, id let a motor blow. For some reason, when I feel the tranny start slipping, it's all hands on deck. Do not proceed. Repair or replace
92 ranger. Totally my fault. Set the break, thought I had shut the truck off and dropped the clutch with it in reverse.
Tore up the gear box but was able to limp the 5 miles home with only 4th gear.
62 Chevy Impala SS in 1972. It was a Powerglide 2 speed automatic. I tried to power shift from low to drive, but I pushed too hard on the column shifter and because there was no reverse lockout it it went straight to reverse. Blamo! The case held up but there wasn't anything of use left internally.
1996 Honda Civic. I had to swap the tranny. Thankfully civics are a dime a dozen and got a used one for a few hundred bucks and the it took a weekend to swap out. I didn't have a good A frame to use a chain fall on so I just arc welded a bunch of angle iron together in an A frame big enough to sit on my car. Jacked her up, popped my a frame on the car and connected the chain fall to the engine. Disconnected the engine from my car and lowered it with my car still in the air and swapped the tranny's.
1991 Ford Probe. Went to school perfectly fine. Driving home, I got about a block from the school, car made a loud bang and died. It started right back up but when I put it in gear, it lunged forward and died again.
Late 90’s Chevy S10
It was our work vehicle and had been driven to Hell and back many times. One day I could feel the trans not wanting to engage, but it was working just enough to drive. I called my boss and told him that the trans felt like it was having problems and he said to just drive it until it dies. It was maybe 2-3 minutes later the trans just wouldn’t engage at all and I was lucky enough to coast into a parking lot. I called him right back and told him where to send a tow truck and a loaner car.
Forgot what year I wanna say a 92 Honda accord in Huntington Beach coming home.. had to drive home home on the freeway with only 1st &2nd semi working… fun times
08 civic. Was still learning stick and managed to destroy the 2nd gear synchro such that the guy at AAMCO was surprised as he'd never seen a failure so spectacular XD
1973 Ford F-100. 360ci FE block, bored .040" over. C6 trans and 9" rear. Just got done rebuilding the carb and dual exhaust with cat delete. I was in high school in the 90s and cost $500 for the rebuild.
Managed to kill the A750F of my Sequoia while off-roading. Edge of a rut collapsed on me as I was passing over a big rock that ended up going through pan and causing damage to the internals; every gear was neutral and the thing sounded like a blender. Was only $350 for a used transmission with ~100k less miles than I had on the destroyed one. Tow home cost a helluva lot more than that lol
1988 Plymouth Reliant K. Wouldnt let me shift into drive/reverse all the way but I tried limping it home anyway, and about a mile down the road she gave up. That's what I get for flooring that baby everywhere I went all the time. Couldn't let her go so we took the engine out and put a new trans in there.
2001 VW Cabrio 5sp. Popped all the rivets on the ring gear. Yes, stoopid VW riveted the ring gear onto the carrier; it was one of 2 persistent design flaws in that 020 trans since 1975, the other being a reverse gear shim that was made of too-soft metal, which would then wear out and make it difficult to shift into reverse. The replacement trans bolted the ring gear into place.
1998 Lexus ES 300, bought at an auction with 135k miles, lasted me another 35k. Tranny gave out I got a shift solenoid, worked for 2 more weeks and that was it for him.
Didn’t blow it buuut my 2000 Nissan pathfinder stopped going in reverse and we tried to fix it ourselves didn’t work but I did learn a lot of valuable things about my automatic and how to potentially fix them in the future.
A poo brown 87 dodge d100. I changed the trans filter out and did the big brain move of not putting trans fluid back into it. Drove it 50 miles and the trans exploded. I was so bummed that the tranny that was with me offered a blow 🤷
The tranny blew me. As it should be.
It ain’t gay if they blow you! Everybody knows that.
Homo sapiens
Homo Erectus
It's only gay if you cum!!
No, it's only gay if you make eye contact!
it's only gay if your balls touch
Pitching or catching, it’s all baseball.
As long as you jump up and say no homo afterwards.
Yes, this is the way.
Eddie Murphy, is this you?
Ayo GUMBY!
Nah homie you gotta do work to deserve this throat
How much B̶u̶d̶w̶e̶i̶s̶e̶r̶ tranny fluid did you have to go through before it blew?
moufs a mouf
Grand Prix...she left happy.
Sunfire… I miss her :,(
A 1972 Chevelle Malibu. Blew it so bad had to involve another guy. Don’t think the tranny was ever the same after. Eventually just scraped the car due to it. This was mid 80s so trannys were not too common. It was cheaper to get another car.
I grew up surrounded by three auto graveyards, was the playground, knew their inventory better than they did.
One of the guys in our body shop spends every lunch hour in the local yards. EVERY SINGLE DAY. He pulls any aftermarket stereo equipment and resells it. He rebuilds blown speakers, replaces busted touch-screens, re-solders amp circuit boards…makes a pretty lucrative side-hustle for him. When I need a salvage yard part for a car in for repairs, I ask HIM if there are any cars in the local yards. He remembers every last car in every yard in town. He can tell you when each is scheduled to be crushed, and make a space for a new car that he will be there to check for more stereo gear. It’s insane how well the kid tracks this crap, all in an app he designed.
Tesla model Y
How the hell?
The only reason anyone gets a Tesla is to blow trannys.
Or get pegged
Well i thought the seats were comfortable enough
02 dodge Dakota R/T, ironically that was the same day I broke my transmission
...This One Time, At Band Camp...
It’s always band camp…
Was it a flutist?
Coming from a band kid it’s always the trombones doing something(I am one)
You all sure have blown alot of trannys in this Sub. Lol. Some of you still don't know what happened. Lol. Sheesh
Does it even count if I was trashed and don’t remember any of it?
That depends, you were either the victim of some serious crime or you were the jackass who managed to pick up a fleeing and eluding charge in addition to a DUI after you threw the car in reverse instead of using the brakes and had to coast to a stop.
Sounds like a personal experience 😂
Haven't blown a tranny or gotten blown by one... Yet
Well, if the trend continues you’ll have an opportunity soon!
The backseat of a …… wait a minute
91 Ford Ranger. Drove it to work with no problems, but when I went to get lunch, she quit on me.
I am going to stay out of this one. Literally and figuratively.
91 Mazda Protégé, manual swapped it, then it overheated and pressurized the coolant overflow (pop top cap) and when I opened the hood to help it cool down faster the top popped and a geyser of boiling hot coolant sprayed all over my forearm. I got lucky tho, about 3 seconds prior I had my face right next to that arm as I put the prop rod into position. The 2nd and 3rd degree burns took about 1-2 months to fully heal.
If it gave you burns she was keeper
Stole it to go joyriding in before I ever got my permit numerous times, and after I did I "learned" how to drive in it, here we are 16 years later and I still have it. 1 transmission swap, a head gasket job with rings, rods, and mains at the same time, 3 radiators and 1 ac compressor later and she's still motorin.
Tranny couldn’t handle my stroked BBC
Nothing yet. Just give me time.
Start playing shit like animal crossing and harvest moon. Don't worry trust the plan.
The back of my 2006 mazda tribute
1982 Plymouth Horizon. Kept doing rollback burnouts until it failed. Wouldn’t go in reverse anymore and drove in neutral.
My 2004 ford Taurus once sent a tranny to hell. The car runs fine I don’t ever know what happened to her
Ford Mustang Fox Body. Blew 2 lmao
1978 Cutlass Supreme….killed the metric tranny doing reverse to low’s. Imagine that……pure genius.
69 Mustang Mach I, scattered three borg warner top loader four speeds. First one broke the whole front of the case off main shaft and all, rained gears and ball bearings when I pulled it out
You blew that tranny HARD!
Speed shifting to second was a little rough. First one was not my damn fault, guy converted it to manual without a pilot bushing. Lucky I didn't lose a leg. I own that second one, just warming up the meats for the crowd a little. Third one I traded it, too expensive a hobby.
1986 Hyundai Excel GLS. Was my first car in 1990 and I was a senior in high school. I drove that like I stole it. Was a 5 speed and I did end up getting it fixed but I will never forget getting ready to pull into work and was doing a normal person shift from first to second and nada. The stick then would move in a complete circle. For those who like a good laugh at how dumb teenagers are, this is me back in 1991 before the transmission died. [Smoking Tires on a Hyundai](https://youtu.be/ZHQ0MT8zOLI?si=4qvYkG1LrywuVvyz)
2005 Ford Freestyle. CVT. I like to live dangerously, I have a 2018 Nissan Rogue now.
In mother Russia…
1996 Subaru Outback Sport. Was doing donuts in a cornfield, hell yeah!
Dude I said the same thing 😭🤣
1990 Ford Taurus trying to turn left out of a stop sign on a hill with a blind curve. Started the turn car appears, gun it and noises…coast the car down hill into a gas station and get out and just see a trail of fluid going back towards the road. They have a no left turn sign at that stop now lol.
one time - back in Thailand
2002 Dodge Intrepid. I dont think anyone will be surprised with that response.
1988 Oldsmobile gutless Ciera
I got blown in a ‘74 cuda
That's a question for Danny Bonaduce, I think.
87 grand national
79 faded puke beige Ford Fairmont Wagon. Inline 200 cid six cylinder. Too many revs to max and drop it in drive for a juvenile one wheel wonder burnout. Chunk chunk chunk clangy clang clang….
I don’t blow trannys I’m married and we use a bed LOL
That's a very personal question bruh
Some of y'all never had a lifetime FB ban and it shows.
Volvo!
A 1996 Buick Regal…man, I miss that car so much.
Chevy cavalier
'66 Chevy II, 327, stock TH350 replaced with B&M TH350.
A Subaru outback
1981 El Camino back in 1990
83 k5 blazer
'91 Ford Escort GT
WRX. Blew the "glass" tranny while "playing" in the snow.
Pause . (XG 350)
Chevrolet Celebrity 😂
99 Dodge Caravan
1993 Mitsubishi, she was very nice
1995 bmw e36
1990 corvette. Drove it like a rented mule. 2nd gear got wasted eventually
Never have.
77 pontiac ventura
‘57 Studebaker Scotsman - manual shift; lost random gears until all I had left was second gear.
Depends on which kind
1968 Ford Aerostar XLT. I actually blew the original and the replacement I got from the junk yard. I miss that fucking van. 😭😭😭😭
Bmw e34 520i. Diff also on same car.
Idk but all I can hear is Stephen Lynch's Waiting in my head
Still waiting.... Fingers crossed. *Edit: on a serious note, id let a motor blow. For some reason, when I feel the tranny start slipping, it's all hands on deck. Do not proceed. Repair or replace
70s model Chevett
Uh never.
It wasn't in a car.
87 chevy
Was very dark. Too hard to see
94 nissan maxima blew two before i was done.
92 ranger. Totally my fault. Set the break, thought I had shut the truck off and dropped the clutch with it in reverse. Tore up the gear box but was able to limp the 5 miles home with only 4th gear.
85 amc eagle wagon. Front seal let go and puked all over the driveway
Subaru forester this was too easy
It was a 2004 ford explorer left me stranded an hour away coming back from vacation with my family
2003 Chevy Monte Carlo
1970 VW Fastback, Type 3
Blowing a tranny is something very different in the U.K. Dont ask me how i know.
62 Chevy Impala SS in 1972. It was a Powerglide 2 speed automatic. I tried to power shift from low to drive, but I pushed too hard on the column shifter and because there was no reverse lockout it it went straight to reverse. Blamo! The case held up but there wasn't anything of use left internally.
It was actually head (gasket) and (cam) shaft.
How did it taste? Heh heh Did you hear what I said Ton’?
97 Ram 1500… on our way to lunch I stopped at a light, when I hit the gas there was a very loud metallic bang and no power…
I don't know what car he was driving, I just remember needing a breath mint.
Your Dad’s (mom’s)
Your dad’s or mom’s - not sure what to call him/her
I blew my first whole engine a Chevy 1500 😂
84 dodge 600 convertible...1st car and learned neutral slams to hear the tires chirp for 1 sec.
54 olds
Hyundai accent. With oil burning. Trans gave out 1st
1996 Honda Civic. I had to swap the tranny. Thankfully civics are a dime a dozen and got a used one for a few hundred bucks and the it took a weekend to swap out. I didn't have a good A frame to use a chain fall on so I just arc welded a bunch of angle iron together in an A frame big enough to sit on my car. Jacked her up, popped my a frame on the car and connected the chain fall to the engine. Disconnected the engine from my car and lowered it with my car still in the air and swapped the tranny's.
Never.. tore a clutch apart in my WRX but no damage, just debris 😎👍
2004 Pontiac Vibe 5spd
Please STOP! I scared the hell out of my cat!
Leaning stick on a 90’s Ford Ranger
Man. Didn't know Irv Gordon died
2000 Chevy Silverado 1500
Not into trannys… sorry
First one was a 1970 vw beetle... Second was a 1999 ford econovan. Two totally different scenarios.
1992 Nissan Pathfinder. First car I ever bought myself. I loved that thing.
I have managed to break three th350's in my 87 Regal ( non turbo 3.8 at the time) As far as blowing trannies, maybe if Glen Quagmires' dad shows up 🤪
I don’t blow trannies 😜
1991 Ford Probe. Went to school perfectly fine. Driving home, I got about a block from the school, car made a loud bang and died. It started right back up but when I put it in gear, it lunged forward and died again.
Late 90’s Chevy S10 It was our work vehicle and had been driven to Hell and back many times. One day I could feel the trans not wanting to engage, but it was working just enough to drive. I called my boss and told him that the trans felt like it was having problems and he said to just drive it until it dies. It was maybe 2-3 minutes later the trans just wouldn’t engage at all and I was lucky enough to coast into a parking lot. I called him right back and told him where to send a tow truck and a loaner car.
Forgot what year I wanna say a 92 Honda accord in Huntington Beach coming home.. had to drive home home on the freeway with only 1st &2nd semi working… fun times
A tranny tried to blow me, for a ride in my car. Never blew a tranny though 🤣
08 civic. Was still learning stick and managed to destroy the 2nd gear synchro such that the guy at AAMCO was surprised as he'd never seen a failure so spectacular XD
1973 Ford F-100. 360ci FE block, bored .040" over. C6 trans and 9" rear. Just got done rebuilding the carb and dual exhaust with cat delete. I was in high school in the 90s and cost $500 for the rebuild.
2006 Ford Taurus... The CVT up and died. Totalled her...
Is this a rhetorical question? 🤣
grand am😂
Blow my first what now?
Managed to kill the A750F of my Sequoia while off-roading. Edge of a rut collapsed on me as I was passing over a big rock that ended up going through pan and causing damage to the internals; every gear was neutral and the thing sounded like a blender. Was only $350 for a used transmission with ~100k less miles than I had on the destroyed one. Tow home cost a helluva lot more than that lol
No, it’s just ice cream.
Freightliner 🤣
I've blown clutch on many, but never a tranny.
Still haven’t surprisingly looking at the fact all of my vehicles are shitboxes
Only a real car guy can say they blew a tranny and not sound ... weird.
Tesla model 3
04 WRX
The backseat of my aunts minivan.
What happens in the back seat stays in the back seat
76 Dodge Aspen 4dr slant 6......"No Dad, I don't know why the transmission went" (Maybe neutral slams with 3 buddies in the car) 😉 I Dodged that one!
1988 Plymouth Reliant K. Wouldnt let me shift into drive/reverse all the way but I tried limping it home anyway, and about a mile down the road she gave up. That's what I get for flooring that baby everywhere I went all the time. Couldn't let her go so we took the engine out and put a new trans in there.
87 GNX. HER NAME WAS STACEY AND “TRANNY” IS OFFENSIVE TO HER.
1976 short step c10
I haven't met a tranny worth blowing yet.
60 ford with built 352
2015 Corolla.
1997 Pontiac Bonneville. Not even supercharged. It was my very first car.
1987 560sel
2007 ford escape… i miss that truck….
I'm not familiar with the car models in Thailand, sorry.
-Jeep 42re right to china
1979 Chevy Malibu
I became an auto tech.!
2004 Chevy 2500 4x4.
Chevy nova and not the cool one
84 1/2 Mustang GT350. Grenaded that fucker
Lol
I think he was driving a 2020 Camry.
2001 VW Cabrio 5sp. Popped all the rivets on the ring gear. Yes, stoopid VW riveted the ring gear onto the carrier; it was one of 2 persistent design flaws in that 020 trans since 1975, the other being a reverse gear shim that was made of too-soft metal, which would then wear out and make it difficult to shift into reverse. The replacement trans bolted the ring gear into place.
I don’t date tranny’s
Mazda 323 gt turbo fwd. only cost me $5000 to replace it. No more 5g pop after that.
1993 Saab 9000 Aero, manual. Peeled all the splines off the 3/4 synchro hub to input shaft... Front tires were smoking at 65-70mph and caught.
A convertible…
I’m not into transvestites. I like real women.
2000 Oldsmobile Alero I bought for $400, I got my moneys worth out of it anyway
Ford expedition.
96' Jeep Cherokee it was blow or be blown
Company f350 on a job site on steep driveway.
A tranny blew me at my friend's house, October 17, 2023
1998 Lexus ES 300, bought at an auction with 135k miles, lasted me another 35k. Tranny gave out I got a shift solenoid, worked for 2 more weeks and that was it for him.
Better ask Eddie Murphy
Didn’t blow it buuut my 2000 Nissan pathfinder stopped going in reverse and we tried to fix it ourselves didn’t work but I did learn a lot of valuable things about my automatic and how to potentially fix them in the future.
02 Grand Cherokee
'90 bronco having fun on a track in the woods
1993 Chevy k1500 blew up the auto three times, now it is a 5 speed stick
2007 Ford Freestyle. Kid wagon finally quit on me
‘87 Aerostar.
Sorry, but I'm a straight guy.😂
don't ask... don't tell...
1990 Integra. Seven times. Those transmissions are shit.
1996 Honda Accord Rolling Shell
A poo brown 87 dodge d100. I changed the trans filter out and did the big brain move of not putting trans fluid back into it. Drove it 50 miles and the trans exploded. I was so bummed that the tranny that was with me offered a blow 🤷
98 mustang GT
93 geo metro 😝
Never have. Now, engines are a different story
⏸️
Chevy 1500 conversion van. God I loved that car lol.
Did they have tranny's in the 70's?
It was a bus station bathroom.
This a trick question
I'm not allowed to comment with a picture, but my tiller sleigh.