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"I thought I have read that it would cost $2,500 from
Volvo. You don't think that as being expensive?"
That might be total cost. The reman trans from Volvo with a 1 yr/unlimited mileage parts warranty costs $1,600 at my dealership. Then it's a 10 hour job to replace it so about $2,350 total.
Now, rebuilding any auto trans is not anything that anyone can do successfully w/o ALOT of auto trans experience and required tools. Even IF you did find a shop who'ld care to do it for you, there will be more labor to open it up and rebuild it besides the 10 hours (book time) to remove/re-install it from the car.
Volvo (and many others these days) have reman programs like that because then items like auto trannies are rebuilt by people with ALOT of experience at doing just that. That's all they do. Even most techs won't want to rebuild an auto trans on a customers car because with cars like Volvo, techs aren't taught to do that by Volvo. Volvo doesn't offer a "auto trans overhaul" class at all (never has) so to those techs, one doesn't want to try and risk failing even once due to the extensive labor involved and knowing that if the rebuild doesn't work right or the customer returns with problems, they'ld then have to fix it again for free (on their own time). That's a risk not worth taking. The exception is in larger domestic car dealers where they have what's known as heavy duty techs who then do nothing but rebuild trannies all day and that's because there are so many of those cars on the road that all end up needing trans overhauls. Volvos #s aren't nearly that high, nor does Volvo have as many major component failures in comparison either.
As someone else here said, if it was a '62 Chevy Nova with a 2 speed powerguide AND you also had trans rebuilding experience, THEN I'd consider it as that'd be a far easier job. That trans probably comes out in less than 1/2 hour.
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