Originally posted by JBoesl
Jsmith, are you still out there?
If you are, I would read and review all these posts carfully.
Do you have the answer to your question yet?
Out of 2924 views and 54 posts, so far one person is happy with there BD trans. This does not include the owners of BD.
As far as my6eatsv8s is concerned you would have take into concideration his relationship with BD as well as his application.
Maybe you should try searching some different forums.
I started searching the web back in march of this year, when my trans started to fail. I found the information I needed and made a choice based on what I found, It cost alot of money and I had to drive 8 hrs. to get it. But I am happy with what I got and would do it agian.
Good luck,
Jason
Ps: I drove right passed BD to get to DTT and did not even know it. LOL I also never seen a ad for DTT till I was in Bill's shop. The only ad I seen was happy customers on this site!
Let me point something that's so obvious I'm stunned that none of you are mentioning it. BD sells a LOT of stuff. They sell a LOT of transmissions, a LOT of torque converters, a LOT of valve bodies. Bill at DTT sells a LOT of stuff. We don't hear from those people, do we? Who we hear from are those who are, for whatever reason, motivated to sit down at the keyboard and pound out their thoughts. That's only a handful.
Frankly, what's going on here, is people are using what I call "small stuff" to try to prove the big point. They are attempting to wag the dog, here. Bill responds to someone else's characterization of someone else's product... as if bragging on one discredits the other. Someone else claims that warranty from someone sucks... And someone else says that the other has perfect warranty, which is responded to with some other almost irrelevant, but heavily weighted response.
Then Business Owner A tries to make himself look better, and Business Owner B or someone who feels compelled to defend him escalates the diatribe... YET, little of real consequence is being said. Instead, one side is trying to prove the other wrong, or themselves right, when in reality, the truth is so lost we could not find it if we searched an eternity.
Let me diverge slightly... Truck Owner A makes 360 HP at the rear wheels, and has managed to burn up 3 converters. Is it REALLY the fault of Vendor B? Or is it that the means of making the transmission deal with 2-3 times it's rated horsepower just isn't foolproof?
If Owner X has 600 HP and he can break a transmission... It's meaningless. Really, it is. All it means is that the inventiveness of the transmission builder hasn't caught up with the inventiveness of the horsepower creator.
And going back... As I said just a few posts back... Nobody who gets discussed here DARES to toss out junk. Nobody really dares to weasel on deserved warranty claims, either. But how do you warranty something like this? Not a single vendor has control over your engine. Nor how you drive. They don't even have control over a lot of the parts installed in your transmission. Just SOME of them. How do they know that the converter you fried the clutch in wasn't because you ACTUALLY had 415 HP, when you claim you hav e 295. When there are so many variables they don't have control over that warranty becomes subjective - if what happens to you is indicative of something outside of their control, why SHOULD they fork over money to get you going?
But then maybe you really have 240 HP and you think you have 330. And your converter burns up. And everything else is as it should be... How are they to know? And if it hasn't happened to a whole lot of people, do they go with their best knowledge, or do they just fork over? I know from experience that doing warranty on one costs you the profits from VERY many that did not need it. I've seen a single warranty where I used to work cost an entire month's profits. That's a whale of a long time to work for nothing. Even more a good motivation to make you question if you should REALLY be paying it.
I really think this thread should end. I think next time it gets out of hand we should probably just delete it. It isn't serving to bring truth to the table. It doesn't even APPROACH being helpful to the member needing something to base good judgement upon in deciding where to spend his hard-earned money. For those of you who let this subject provoke you to post inciteful words, shame on you. Act with some dignity and decorum. Show some sound judgement and careful thought. The readers deserve it, and it would credit your reputation as well.
Sheesh...
Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
If BD has stepped up their program in an effort to stop getting spanked by this little company in BC, then we will here about it soon. Someone that isn’t on BD’s payroll needs to do a side-by-side test between the two. BTW Adam, that problem will get fixed on Saturday. That is the biggest problem I have had with my transmission- I can hear the violins now. Poor me. 
Oh wait, people PAY for your stuff and do the PR for free, damn, my bad. 
