Since day one of ownership of our SRX, it would make a clanking noise on hard acceleration. I unfortunately found this out after I bought the car and the dealership I bought it from when I asked to return the car/fix the transfer case/assist with fixing the case said "too bad".
So for over a year, we've just let it be and just drove soft enough to not make it clank from the chain skipping on the sprockets. It kept getting worse and almost every accel from a stop would cause the chain to skip. Then we moved to N. CA and the car was almost inoperable out here with all the hills.
Finally said this is not a project I want to tackle and had a local trans shop pull the t case and rebuild it. This shop seemed reputable and is in a wealthy area. They also had just done the same repair on another SRX 2 weeks before, saying it's starting to become a common problem for these cars at 80-100k+ miles.
We'll they did it and I paid for it...
They took some pics of the stretched chain with the new chain for me:
I'm currently shopping around for a new truck to trade this thing in on... but we'll see.
So for over a year, we've just let it be and just drove soft enough to not make it clank from the chain skipping on the sprockets. It kept getting worse and almost every accel from a stop would cause the chain to skip. Then we moved to N. CA and the car was almost inoperable out here with all the hills.
Finally said this is not a project I want to tackle and had a local trans shop pull the t case and rebuild it. This shop seemed reputable and is in a wealthy area. They also had just done the same repair on another SRX 2 weeks before, saying it's starting to become a common problem for these cars at 80-100k+ miles.
We'll they did it and I paid for it...
They took some pics of the stretched chain with the new chain for me:
I'm currently shopping around for a new truck to trade this thing in on... but we'll see.