Continental Transmission
2026-08-09T14:45:06.389Z
Continental Transmission earned this five star rating the hard way.I brought my 2013 Cruze in after another shop confidently diagnosed the transmission on the back of StabiliTrak and traction control alerts, and told me to get it serviced ASAP. Dan and his team actually put her through a real road test, watched live scanner data, and found the truth: nothing wrong with the transmission at all. The actual problem was a cylinder 1 misfire from a failed valve cover gasket, oil pooling, and a fouled ignition coil. Separately, a water pump bolt from a prior repair elsewhere had backed out and was rubbing the drive pulley, which was the source of an intermittent whine I'd been chasing for weeks. They also caught a cracked intake snorkel that should have been flagged long before it got to them.What stood out was the process. Dan listened to my dashcam audio, asked the right questions, and didn't guess. When I laid out the full repair history on the phone, all he could say was "wow." That's the reaction of someone who actually knows what he's looking at and takes his craft seriously.My vehicle is now running better than she has in years. Better mileage, no faults, and was confirmed “road trip ready” for a high-importance, 500+ mile round trip with real elevation change where I needed to know she could handle both the conditions and the distance without fail. The results back it up: she performed beautifully, my fuel economy went from a 20.7 MPG average over my last ten fill-ups to 26.6 MPG since the repair (a 29% jump) and I got 450+ miles of range on consecutive fill-ups, which is something I haven’t seen in years.Transmission or not, if you want a shop that actively diagnoses instead of guesses, this is the place to go!