Trail Transmission

I’ve been going here for years for all of my transmission issues always got a fair deal and good service. This week my 16 yo son’s f150 had some hiccups in shifting so we dropped it off for a diagnosis. After a few hours they called and quoted us $ 85 an hour to diagnose after the preliminary test didn’t reveal much about the issue. We agreed to the quote and waited for the results. Next day they called to say it was just a blown fuse that caused the whole effing thing to go haywire and when I asked what we owed, expecting at least $ 85 plus the cost of the fuse, Jerry said $ 25 they could have charged us more for the whole bother of looking at it but no just a simple $ 25 bucks. Ahhh yes once in awhile we parents enjoy a cheap fix! Not often but we got lucky this time! :^) Thank you trail transmission!

I have been there now twice for two different cars and they do the best work. There honest and plain out good mechanics!

’10 Nissan 370z Nismo.
Trail was VERY reasonable on labor, GREAT on time, and EXCELLENT in execution. I asked them to R&R my Master Cylinder, install an aftermarket Concentric Slave Cylinder, metal hosing, Redline Xmsn & Differential oils and a pilot bushing. They did an excellent job and the Z feels like the day it rolled off the lot. Call them! (I even provided all the parts).

had a pt cruiser in there a while back that was not shifting and they fixed it for much less then what other shops estimates were. Very friendly, honest people. nice experience

They were great! The pickup was running rough and thought the transmission was going out and took it here. Thankfully it was only a 40 $ fix! Honest, good mechanics!

This place will save you money by not getting the work done here. Get a second opinion at a different shop. This is what happened to me, I was coming back from payson when my truck started shifting wrong, not shifting, etc. (trans. problem ?) checked fluid it was low added some and got the truck home. Took it to Trail Trans. they kept it about an hour to check it all out, road test it, whatever else. I explained everything to them before leaving it to be checked. They called told me they were done checking it (no cost for the check) but my trans. was shot and needed a complete rebuild, $ 1,600.00 plus tax and they could have it done by Monday. (this was Saturday) I told them no don’t do anything I was on my way there. When I got there he told me that the trans. was completely check out and needed the complete rebuild. That they if I used it, even just taking it home that I wouldn’t get far. Well $ 1600.00 is alot of money, money i didn’t have and so I left got the truck home no problem, used it afew days to and from work (30 miles each way) Well the truck began having problems again. I started calling around to different places to maybe get a better price on getting the trans. rebuilt, when one shop (Tri City Trans) in Tempe asked how do you know you need a complete rebuild? I explain my problem and told him about Trail Trans. Then he told me to go out to the truck and remove the vacuum line on the trans. if there if oil (tranny fluid) in it then he would guess it was probably just the vacuum modulator gone bad. Guess what there was fluid in the line !! I came back in to the phone and told him this, he said that any good transmission shop should have checked this first when I explained to them that I was low and using tranny fluid. It’s got to be going somewhere! he said. Big Thanks to Tri City Trans. did this all by phone.
I went to checker auto purchased the vacuum modulator for $ 7.95 problem fixed. It’s been a little over a year now 25,000 miles later, the truck is running great!!! I returned a call to Tri City Trans. thanked them and he said «yeah there’s alot of ripoff shops out there «Like Trail Trans. Just rebuild the whole trans. charge $ 1600.00 or more to fix a $ 7.95 part.
So anyone I know with a trans. problem I tell them to stay away from Trail Trans. I hope this helps someone out there. The funny thing is every time I go by Trail Trans. they are always busy (busy ripping people off) I wander how many only needed a $ 7.95 part!!!