Quote Originally Posted by Muscat View Post
Yes, but generally AT's are problematic, just read the Transmission Problems thread here in tsikot.com. Ang daming horror stories, they had to look for surplus transmissions sa banawe or evangelista st. If they are lucky, they will get a good one if not it will be a big waste of hardearned money.
This will rarely happen sa MT, these are robust and can take any abuse from drivers.
You have to take it with a grain of salt. Note that many of the "horror stories" would be cars older than ten years old.

Even my 12 year old corolla already had it's A/T tranny replaced mainly because I pretty much abused it for the first eight years. The surplus tranny I have now works well enough without problems.

We just have to keep in mind that our cars were designed to have a service life of five to ten years of being relatively problem free. So if you are buying a new car or a relatively "young" car, you can expect relatively problem free motoring for a long while.