Hello all, I have been off the list for over two years now and have
desperately missed all the good advice.

The big news is that my van got crushed by a tree.  So now it has a new
roof, side, window, headliner, paint etc.

To the transmission issue.  I went to see about trading my van in today
on a 99 model and after "test driving" my van the dealer is insisting
that the transmission is failing.  Of course these are the same people
that could not even tell me what year my van was, but magically they are
able to diagnose imminent transmission failure by driving it around the
block.

I will admit it shifts hard, it has since the day I bought it in 1995.
Since then I have put about 50,000 miles on it with no signs of trouble
(current mileage is 88,000.)

Nothing seems wrong to me.  Am I possibly missing something?  I have test
driven other Eurovans (93 models) and if I recall correctly they all shift
that way.

Any ideas, comments or suggestions regarding this would be greatly
appreciated.

Trace
-- '93 MV

Also accepting any smartaleck comments toward the dealer.  :)