The steerin wheel screws have come loose inside the steering colum, if you can move the steering wheel up and down and back and forth you will have to remove the air bag the horn and horn button and tighten the two screws that are tork heads #8 to fix this issue.
If you want to fix this yourself you can do this it takes two to three hours with out the right tools, If you rent the tools to remove the steering wheel and the u clamp to remove the snap ring it will cost you almost nothing and would take an hour. You can rent it from schucks or autozone, you need steering wheel puller and screw on u clamp to remove plastic cover to ge tto the screws, I am also assumeing it is a tilt wheel. Disconnect the battery pull two bolt air bag retainer covers remove two bolts holding air bag on, next disconnect the air bag, Next remove 3 philips screws holding the horn assembly plastic and metal ring, Put tothe side in order how the screws and two parts go, if there are wires for a cruise control disconnect them. Next Remove 3/4 inch center steering nut, install U bolt on the bolt thread that you removed the nut off of screw down till the plastic cap is 1/4 inch down allowing you to getto the center snap ring, using too picks work snap ring out of the grouve then remove the u clamp. once you pull the clap off the plastic plate whell come off and the plate is keyed to go on one way. after you remove plastic cover you will see three screws tork head type #8 or #6 buy a tube ot thread lock #605 remove the screws and put a drop on each screw then screw down. once screws are tight make sure the steering ball is not broke it is a plastic ball with a notch on one end with a spring on the other. Connect the battery up, install key and turn the key on put foot on brake then shif the shifter selecter back and forth if it operates somothly your done, if it gives you trouble still then check the pin in the pivot point on the shift lever, if it looks broke hammer it out and take to the parts store get new roll pin and hammer new one pack in with a center hole punch. then reinstall the parts. If you run into trouble you can post here and I can help you more.
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The charge depends on what part is faulty.
The first thing to do is replacing the transmission fluid.
If that does not fix the problem, an auto transmission, the next step is testing and eventually replace solenoid pack located underneath transmission.
Then , depending on the problem, there are a couple of extra parts to be tested.One of the parts is the transmission control module attached to transmission.
In some case the transmission box is gone, in that case the transmission must be replaced or rebuilt, and the repair is very expensive.
The cost depends on what part is faulty.
If you just needed transmission fluid and testing, then you can get away with $100.
To replace solenoid pack you may spend several hundreds.
If the TCM (transmission control module) must be replaced, cost will probably be over $500.
If you are in the extrme case when the transmission box must be replaced, there the cost will be very expensive. A new transmission box usually is above $.1500, plus labor.
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how difficult is this to do? how much labor charge should it be to have this done?
How difficult is this to do? How much labor charge should this require?
Outstanding detail in the answer. I am using this info to get it worked on at a local shop.
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Jerry
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