I didn't intend to, but slightly over a year ago, I bought a Jasper reman transmission. Before you pass judgment on me, grab a theater-sized popcorn and a maga-Coke and hear me out....
My FIL and MIL bought a 2005 Chevy Trailblazer brand new. FIL has been gone for a dozen years and fast forward to early 2022 and the MIL passes. My wife inherits this vehicle which has been in west Texas its whole life. Said vehicle is 2WD (you don't need 4WD in west Texas), has always been garaged and looks much better than the 105K reading that the odometer shows. It was serviced every 3K at the local Chevy dealership about a half hour south of Abilene, Texas. My wife and I live in far northern Kansas and the day before Easter of last year, (2022), it's time to drive the Trailblazer to its new home in Kansas, about a 12-13 hour drive. Her intent was to drive to Era, Texas (close to the Texas/Oklahoma border) on one day, spend Easter with her sister there and drive home to northern Kansas on the following Monday. Right north of Fort Worth, the cruise control stops working, but she thinks nothing of it. About 10 miles from Era, overdrive was gone and she was driving at about 55 mph knowing it has major problems. She limps it to her sister's house in Era and my BIL knows of a high school classmate who runs a transmission shop in that town. They park it there Saturday and I call the guy first thing on Monday morning. My BIL says he is highly rated and tells me to trust him completely. Initial diagnosis shows that the torque converter had puked itself and there was converter debris throughout the whole transmission, again at 105K miles. I thought about having that shop go through it, but I asked the transmission shop owner this scenario: "If I have problems with it a year from now, or any time during the warranty, what would your repair process be?" Well, of course I'd have to tow the vehicle to Era, Texas to have it diagnosed. I also thought about calling Clinebarger and see if he would do an emergency fix. (Era, TX is probably about 30 minutes north of Fort Worth) If I had problems with it a year (or whenever), how would he do the repair? Again, I figured I'd have to have the vehicle shipped to Fort Worth for him to diagnose.
So, since there are transmission shops all over that could do work under a Jasper warranty, I decided to go with them. It took about 4 days to get the remanned 4L60E to his shop and they installed it in a few hours. They also put in a new genuine GM radiator because the cooling lines were plugged up. My wife drove it to northern Kansas after the repair. My son is driving the Trailblazer in Kansas City and I was assured that there are shops there that could handle any Jasper warranty work in that area. (BTW, I'd never go with a Jasper reman engine as I've seen engines of theres that don't even get the underside of the valve cover cleaned) The replacement transmission has been working great for over a year and has about 20K miles on it.
So that is the reason I went with a Jasper. Ordinarily, I wouldn't have. Had the transmission needed replaced locally, I definitely wouldn't have, but I hope I don't have to go through that again anytime soon.
I've also talked to a few local Trailblazer owners who have had early transmission failures. Now and know my FIL never did do any transmission maintenance and these guys probably didn't either, so I'll leave it at that.
Just giving everyone my $.02 worth on why I went with Jasper.
