We recently purchased an 850 Turbo Wagon with the realization we would need to replace the transmission which we did, we then we took it on a trip. On said trip the car over heated luckily we were on the freeway and dealership row just happened to be the next exit. Once at the dealership we found out the coolant overflow tank was ruptured and the thermostat was bad, on top the fact several of the hoses, five in all were hooked up wrong. The next day we took it to a friend of my moms who was a Volvo mechanic of the old school right from Sweden he fixed our hoses but informed us our rear main seal was leaking badly. And that the transmission guy should have replaced it, when reinstalling the transmission, also the hoses that were miss placed or wrongly hooked up would have been done when the transmission was replaced, and that the transmission guy was the one responsible. Well, when we returned home and informed the guy that replaced the transmission about all of the problems and the over five hundred dollars we had to spend to fix it, he said. I quote, (we did not do any thing with the engine so we could not have hooked up the hoses wrong and the rear main seal has nothing to with the transmission), now I know he must be lying but how do I prove it. Does anyone know if when replacing the transmission on an 850 Turbo Wagon, you need to get into the engine from above and remove hoses, then put them all back together after reinstalling the transmission and if the rear main seal is part on the job?

If so, please let me know we have already paid the guy several thousand and do not want to get ripped off any more if we can help it, thanks. Buy the way I am a quadriplegic paralyzed from the chest down and my wife and I have four children two sets of twins, eight and three. Three boys and one girl, the main reason we bought the car was so the whole family could ride together in one car, we love the car but do not want to end up with a money pit or a mechanic that takes advantage of us. We just do not have the money for it, I cannot work and my social security pays very little so my wife god bless her takes home all the responsibility of making our families income.

Thank you in advance for your help.

your mom's friend is a mechanic of the old school volvo type, your words, you don't need our advice.

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BLAH BLAH BLAH, YOUR FRIEND IS A VOLVO MECHANIC!? :clap: you got gold in your pocket and your spending nickel. STAY AWAY FROM **** MECHANICS :thumbsup: . Call your local BBB and get two statements from real Volvo Techs and add that to your itemized bill from the work. Small claims court, may cost you more to fight than to be glad its fixed now and take it as a lesson. and of course your supposed to do the seal when you remove the tranny. JEEZZ! :haha:

wow, i d i o t isnt legal? oops im sorry! :haha:

maybe you moms friend would be willing to visit the dopey tranny shop that did the work and suggest that they explain it to him???

i cant imagine you will get what you need/want from the tranny shop, but... here's to hope! :blush:

good luck!

and, call the bbb no matter what happens and file a complaint. we all need to do our part to help keep these dopes from taking other folks money. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

On the first part of your question, I don't know really, but it doesn't much matter. If the mechanic is as much of a hack as your story suggests, he may have pulled off all kinds of unnecessary stuff in the process. For legal purposes, you could probably prove anything you wanted to, but it all depends on how much time you want to spend doing it.

For the second part of your question, yes, for exactly the reasons you discovered. If you're pulling the transmission out, why would you not replace a $10 seal, even if it's not leaking? Down the road it's gonna leak, and the transmission will have to come out again, just like you found out.

Find a new shop.