Free Performance Checks For Drivers In Cary, Raleigh & Millbrook
Milex Complete Auto Care – Mr. Transmission of Cary makes keeping your car road ready as simple as possible! We’re proud to offer a complimentary safety check and transmission performance check with qualifying services to motorists throughout Cary, Raleigh, Apex, and the surrounding areas, so you can always be ready to face the road ahead. Once our checks are completed, we’ll provide you with a list of potential issues that are prioritized by urgency so that you can make informed decisions about what kind of services and repairs you may need now, next month, and next year.
What Does Our Vehicle Safety Check Include?
During our safety check, our trained Cary experts will inspect your vehicle for any safety issues and check on warning lights, battery condition, belts, hoses, fluid levels, leaks, and more! We’re here to help our neighbors throughout Cary, Garner, Apex, and Millbrook stay safe and catch problems before they become serious – and costly.
What Does Our Transmission Performance Check Include?
Fluid Check
The first step is a check of your transmission fluid. If your transmission is experiencing wear or damage, the fluid is often the first place a technician can see it. A transmission in proper condition will have clear, red fluid. If we notice discoloration or an unpleasant odor, that may indicate the need for a further internal inspection.
Road Test
For the road test, we’ll check your vehicle in two different ways: a stationary test and a driving test. During these tests, your vehicle will be checked for slipping noises, unusual shifting, and late or early shift patterns. When we observe your vehicle in both idle and active states, we can provide you with the most precise diagnosis possible.
Stationary Test: First, we’ll observe your vehicle at rest. This test allows our technicians to assess your vehicle's transmission in an idle state. They will inspect your vehicle for signs of leaks, and they’ll also evaluate the transmission linkage for any visible damage or misalignment. We’ll also start the vehicle and check for unusual noises, slipping, or unexpected vibrations. This way, we can establish a baseline understanding of your transmission’s operating condition ahead of the driving test.
Driving Test: The driving test allows us to perform real-world assessment of your vehicle’s transmission. During this phase, we take your vehicle out for a short test drive, where we’ll monitor its behavior under normal driving conditions. This allows us to identify issues that we may not be able to catch during stationary testing. Throughout the test, we carefully observe the transmission’s shifting behavior, like unusual or late shifting. This helps us diagnose specific issues and provide you with more accurate, detailed information about the health of your transmission.
Pan Examination
Next, we’ll examine the transmission pan. The pan’s condition is a reliable indicator of potential internal problems, as it allows our team of technicians a partial look at your transmission’s internal workings and helps our technicians make the best possible recommendations.
During this examination, we’ll check for the presence of metal particles in the transmission pan. While it’s normal for there to be some metal particles in the pan due to everyday wear-and-tear, excess metal particles indicate significant issues and binding of internal transmission gears.
Lift Inspection
Before making our final recommendations, we’ll perform a lift inspection. During a lift inspection, your technician will check the following to help determine if adjustments, repairs or replacements are needed:
- Neutral switch
- Throttle linkage
- Manual linkage
- Modulator
- Modulator vacuum
- Transmission mounts
- U-joints
- Fluid retention
- Electric components
After completing our inspection, we’ll provide you with a rundown of the services you may need, as well as an estimate for any auto repair services. It may be the case that you don’t have a transmission problem, or that the issue you do have doesn’t require an internal inspection. If the results of your performance check suggest an internal problem with your transmission, we recommend moving forward with a full internal inspection which requires removal and disassembly.
Our 5 Recommendations After a Performance Check:
- No transmission problem: The performance check indicated that no repairs or adjustments are needed at this time. We encourage you to follow up with regular maintenance to keep your vehicle in road ready condition.
- Preventive maintenance service: We’ll help you stop transmission trouble in its tracks before it starts by replacing your vehicle’s transmission fluid and filter if needed.
- External adjustment or repair: Your transmission requires external repairs. This service does not involve removal and disassembly of the transmission.
- Reseal service: If your transmission is leaking but has no other internal problems, we’ll remove the transmission to replace all of its leaking external seals.
- Internal inspection services: If our transmission check determined that your transmission requires an internal inspection, we will remove the transmission and disassemble it to determine which of its component parts needs attention. We’ll replace only the necessary parts, and your technician will only make repairs upon your approval. Once our work is completed, your transmission will be reinstalled.
Milex Complete Auto Care - Mr. Transmission of Cary’s safety and transmission performance check services help motorists in Cary, Raleigh, Apex, Garner, Millbrook, and the surrounding areas drive with confidence. Give us a call or stop in today for your safety and transmission performance check from our Cary team!
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