TSB on 2003 Grand Caravan tranny

My friend got a 2003 Grand Caravan with 3.3 engine. After a few months when
he would put in R or D it would not engage, as if it was in Neutral. He took
it to the Dealer and they fixed right a way, there was a TSB to replace
feeding pump and front clutch, this also corrected his not so smooth
shifting from 2-1 when coming to a stop. Can this repair compromise the
tranny in the long run, or it is a routine fix. In the work sheet it says it
took 5 hour to do etc. Is this a new problem with the tranny? I thought they
fixed the tranny problems The TSB states late 2002 and early 2003 got
defective pumps. Any comments
Tx.

 

Yeah, you have to wonder how defective parts continue to get into
American cars more frequently than Japanese cars. Just got the latest
Consumer Reports and even if you assume slight favoritism towards the
imports, it is still plain that American cars are still not as
reliable as Japanese. How can it take so long to get things right???
I suspect the answer is that the Americans keep switching suppliers to
get lower prices and quality sacrifice is the result. Just my guess.

 

Of course that's why Honda just announced a huge recall. I don't care who
makes em they all have stuff happen.
Larry

 

True but more stuff still happens to American makes. Please don't get
me wrong.... I have a 2001 Avalon and a 99 300M and prefer the 300M.
But still I have to admit that reliability of bread and butter
components.... the Japanese still win.

 

Sorry Art I don't buy it. I know many people with Japanese and other
prestige foreign brands (hell I was one of them). I just don't se it.
Although one phenomenon I've noticed is when people like my friend with his
Camry or my bro and his Lexus r my other with his Benz's and Volvos have to
get their vehicle "serviced" no matter if the vehicle is bleeding fluids at
a quart an hour it's always "minor maint." but let the olds or whatever need
brakes and oh boy what a piece of shit. I will admit I never had such
delusions when I owned a BMW. I wanted the bemer because I thought it was
cool nothing more. In retrospect it was rather reliable but incredibly
expensive to maintain. The chevy that replaced it needed more shall we say
repairs but costed half as much to keep on the road. I'll take cheaper to
run ANY day.
Larry

 

My question is would this repair compromise the tranny in the long run
Tx

 

BMW's are indeed expensive to maintain. Scheduled maintenence on
Lexus and Infinity are also riduculously highly priced. But I was
comparing mainstream Japanese imports and American cars and I still
say the bread and butter components on the Japanese imports give
owners fewer problems.

 

Why should it if it is fixed properly. On my 94 LHS I had to have a
snubber replaced under a TSB because a chain inside the casing was
touching the casing during acceleration. I assume that the
disassembly work would be similar. The AT was fine with no problems
for the 6+ years I owned the car. The only issue is that I had to
have the rear AT mount replaced and I always wondered if the AT wasn't
surported well when removed from the car. However the rear mount was
a common replacement part on the 94 LHS so I doubt it. We will never
know. Also that particular dealer had idiots working in their service
department so if anything could be messed up they would have messed it
up but good.