How long did he drive it after they mixed? The term is called “pink or strawberry milkshake” in these here parts. I recently had it happen to mine but as soon as I noticed, had it towed and then put in a new radiator and exchanged new coolant and transmission fluid. It’s been good up to this point and that happened in may and it’s my daily driver and I recently got back on a 1,500 mile trip up through Montana. Point is the transmissions are notoriously strong aside from this happening and your neighbor might be able to save it. If it’s toast then I’m not sure about prices for a new one though that seems about right. I was planning on doing a manual swap if mine was toast which I figured would have been around $1500-$2000 total with me doing all the work. If moneys and issue for them I would snag an auto transmission from the junkyard and swap it in along with a new radiator and you should be good. It wouldn’t be hard to do themselves with some help.


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