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Old 06-25-2018, 10:10 PM
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Rusted through transmission pan




anyone else have this happen to them?

85000 miles and always garaged here in DC.

The new pan looks slick though 😬
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Damn, they must salt the heck out of the roads where you live.
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Known issue on the earlier 722.9, the updated pan I haven't seen it happen to, but it always looks like a paint failure causing corrosion.
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Yeah it looked bad.

Would you say that this is an earlier pan? I do have a 2010....i thought that would have been fixed by then.

They don't salt the roads that much...at least not as much as Pennsylvania and new York that I've experienced.
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Were they identical? The new pans will all be the updated design. The earlier ones had a different bevel on the end, different magnet dimples, and used a different length overflow tube inside.
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This is the part number that was installed for anyone who ever runs into this problem.

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