Automatic Transmission in Edmonds

Edmonds's Drivetrain Specialists for Automatic Transmission

Edmonds runs from the ferry dock and its walkable downtown up the hill to Five Corners and Perrinville, with a housing stock and a vehicle stock that both skew older and well kept. If your automatic is hard-shifting, flaring, skipping gears or shuddering, Jamie's Transmission Service will find out why for Edmonds drivers the same way every time: road test for your symptoms, scan for codes, fluid level and color, and a pan drop when the evidence calls for it.

How We Diagnose Automatic Transmission Problems in Edmonds

The climb up from the waterfront and the ferry-line idling are a distinctive Edmonds combination: transmissions spend time holding on grades and creeping in line, both of which build heat at low speed where there is little airflow to shed it. The newer 6-, 8- and 10-speeds mostly fail the same way, and Jaden traces the root cause to the valve body, the brain of the transmission. These pulse-width-modulated systems keep the valves moving constantly, the bores wear, pressure bleeds off to the torque converter, and the converter clutch shudders itself to death. Edmonds drivers usually feel it as a rumble-strip vibration at cruising speed.

Why Edmonds Trusts a Specialty Shop

Edmonds owners tend to keep good vehicles a long time, and we do a lot of preventative fluid services and second-transmission rebuilds that carry a well-maintained car past 250,000 miles. Every automatic rebuild gets all new soft parts: clutches, bands, bushings, washers, bearings, seals, gaskets, pistons. Hard parts like the case, pump and drums go through the wash, then get inspected and measured, and anything out of spec is replaced rather than reused. And always, for every Edmonds rebuild, a new torque converter.