I always wondered what it was like to blow a transmission in a car. I found out last week.

Keeping the story short I blew a gear getting on the freeway bad enough that it blew clean through the transmission case. (Un)Lucky for me the Hyundai transmission is connected directly to the differential. Translation into english: it cost me $1500 to get a used transmission assembly and have it installed.

Looks like I won’t be doing much of anything for, oh, the next 6 months or so until I can pay that bad boy off.

On the bright side, I met my neighbors over at O’Brian Services, and they are good people. I’ll be taking my vehicle there for any future repairs.