Kormex transmission?

FFChuck · Aug 1, 2018

In my neverending quest to find an M5OD to replace my FM-146 I saw those rebuilt transmission from Kormex for 850$ shipped on ebay. They offer a 6 months ulimited mileage warranty. I'm really fed up to deal with scrap yards asking for half that price for a tranny with no infos on it.

Anyone has bought from them?

Thanks

https://www.ebay.com/itm/90-94-Ford-Ranger-4-0L-4WD-5spd-Rebuilt-Transmission-M5R1-M50D/173351026497

wildbill23c · Aug 5, 2018

In my opinion, you get what you pay for. A 6mo warranty on a $2k+ transmission is pathetic, at least with the $2k I paid for the rebuilt transmission at AAMCO for my 88 Bronco 2 I got an 18 month warranty. I've never heard of Kormex, sounds like a seller that gets used stuff and cleans it up to make it look pretty and hopes it'll survive the warranty period before it blows up. I'd spend the money and get one at a shop...the $2k I spent was AAMCO doing all the work, Remove, rebuild, reinstall, test, and warranty. I had an issue with mine right after leaving, brought it back the next day and they easily corrected the issue in the valve body, and its been almost 2 years now and haven't had any other issues.

Had a 93 Ranger with the same tranny that's in my 88 Bronco 2 which was rebuilt by a different transmission shop (who is no longer in business) and it didn't even last 12,000 miles, made it slightly out of warranty by 1 month (it had a 1 year warranty) and it blew up again luckily in the driveway this time...and they charged about $150 less than AAMCO and obviously used the same cheap parts as OEM and never did any updates and heavy duty parts. AAMCO I guess does all updates on their rebuilds and uses heavier duty parts as to not repeat the failures that a certain transmission may be prone to fail at.

85_Ranger4x4 · Aug 6, 2018

Automatics just do automatic things.

Manuals can have guys jamming gears, shifting with no clutch etc. much easier to outright abuse.

FFChuck · Aug 7, 2018

Thanks for the info

wildbill23c · Aug 8, 2018

85_Ranger4x4 said:
Automatics just do automatic things.

Manuals can have guys jamming gears, shifting with no clutch etc. much easier to outright abuse.

Automatics do automatic things until they don't do automatic things :icon_thumby:

.

If I did this over again I'd definitely do the manual thing with a manual shifty thingy

. Far less to go wrong, and much cheaper to work on...a clutch, throwout bearing, master/slave cylinder, cheaper than a rebuild on an automatic tranny that isn't doing any automatic stuff like moving the vehicle at all :icon_rofl:

. Oh and 3 pedals confuse the shit out of a lot of people in today's world HAHA!!!

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