That's kinda scary lol. I don't know **** about cars, so I wouldn't know what to do to replace a transmission. That would be another 1k roughly? I paid 3.5k for the car. It has its problems, mainly the paint is ****. Arizona sun tan. Other than that I've ran into really small stuff like the coolant elbows, and **** I messed up on my own trying to learn lol!