I can appreciate that your local guy was courteous to you. But he had to contact John himself because he could not fix it either.
So in a way John still helped fix your trans.
I work for a major auto manufacturer building oem engines. You think we never make a bad one. It happens. And when the customer
Is rightfully pissed off that his brand new $100,000 sports car threw a rod, the customer comes back to the oem for repairs, he doesn’t go to one of the other manufacturers who never designed the thing for repairs. This is not about being a Cope fan, it is about even the most talented people make mistakes on a bad day. In my line of work we have a saying. Building one good car is easy, building 10,000 good ones is much more difficult. The valve body that Cope makes is probably done on a cnc machine. The drill bit could have broke and they did not see it. Whose fault is that. It’s a process failure. **** happens. I do machining tools for a living. It happens. Cope may have made 25 valve bodies with that defect before they caught it. Your converter was ordered wrong somehow. That could have been a typo in the part number. I get that you are upset for this terrible experience. Cope messed up. I get that too. But you brought in the additional labour costs and $500.00 for fresh fluid etc. Like I said I feel bad for you. I got divorced years ago. It cost me a fortune. Chalk it up to life experience and move on all the wiser. But continually bashing Cope for tailshaft stripped threads after the trans has had another set of hands on it, is not based in facts.
