Transmission repair service near Chicago Heights, IL

Friendly & knowledgeable staff. Great prices. Quick Service. I can not imagine a more friendly and honest repair shop. Whenever you bring your car to a mechanic you are weary of getting ripped off. Now that I have discovered this gem, I fear no more!

The automatic transmission in my Toyota Sienna van appeared failing to up-shift to 3rd and OD gears. I took the car to a number of local shops to diagnose and quote for repair. The Toyota dealer charged me $62 for only taking a short test drive without any diagnostic scanning of the car and said the transmission needs to replace (refurbished) at $3520. Another shop did do the scanning and test for free but told me to rebuild the transmission. Then I came to Superior Transmission. Frank and the technician inspected my car in very much details, including check the fluid, scan the data and test drive. They found it was most likely a solenoid problem and gave me detailed explanation how they would fix it step-by-step, from the best to worst scenario. All these were done in a very professional way and free! I can tell they are experts on transmissions but, most importantly, they are honest and want to fix your problem instead of taking the advantage on your situation to make the most money from you. They gained my trust immediately. Finally my car was repaired by Superior Transmission at the cost about 1/10 of the other. The job is also backed up by warrantee or credit if further work becomes necessary. So far my car runs as good as it used to be. I highly recommend Superior Transmission to everyone who needs transmission repair, at least it should be your shopping list.

My friend regrets the day he took his transmission to Shift Rite in Kankakee to rebuild. It has been a nightmare dealing with these people over a problem that turned out to be their fault in the first place. If they had just dealt with it immediately it would have been better for everyone, but their denial of responsibility made the entire situation more complicated and painful for everyone. Instead of a loyal customer, they have turned him into an upset and frustrated one. He regrets he ever trusted these people. A more suspicious man would say that skin color was the issue, but I think these clowns are just incompetent. It began with a relatively routine rebuild; he gave them his 1999 528i automatic transmission to rebuild, and had an involved conversation with the owner Brett Borelli about the entire system and the problems he was encountering with it. he had already replaced all 5 solenoids, and as the transmission was still acting up he thought it best to take it to a shop to be taken care of, and had heard that Shift Rite did good work. Unfortunately that did not happen to him. What happened to him instead was a three-month nightmare and a lot of wasted money. The problems began once he picked the transmission up and re-installed it in my BMW. Even after they “rebuilt” it, would not shift from first to second gear (or higher) without slipping. Since it was just serviced, he had the BMW towed back to the shop, so they could take the transmission out and find out where the problem was. The owner Brett initially blamed him, saying that one of the solenoids he installed was in backwards. What doesn’t ring true there is that my friend told him about the solenoids (I was there), and a rebuild would have at least checked them. It turns out the solenoids were fine and he was just casting blame. Over time as the evidence of their sloppiness and poor work became more evident, the customer service deteriorated to the point where Brett would actively avoid him when he went to the shop. It was obvious they didn’t do anything but a cursory look without even working on it the second time because the car had to be towed there yet again for them to go back over their work again. They eventually discovered they had misaligned a bushing upon the initial rebuild. This wasn’t even the error they tried to blame him for in the first place! It took a total of 3 trips over almost 3 months and several hundred dollars in towing (that they refused to pay for, even though all the extra work was due to their mistake). Their bad workmanship is only outmatched by their bad customer service. he is sorry he ever took his transmission there, and would strongly caution anyone else from doing so.

I took my car in not knowing what to expect after my daughter had hit a curb hard and also noticing weird noises coming from my fairly newly bought used car. 59 Auto took it right in and fixed it very quickly and it didn't cost nearly as much as I had feared. I was very pleasantly surprised.