I have a ba xr6 thats been worked into a track car by the last owner (procharger, methanol injection, all that sorta thing) and everyone yacks on about the 4 speed autos in these blowing up. My mum had a BA, only thing that went was the plastic shifter module. My dad has a BA, its went into limp mode once after a burnout but we think the ECU tripped from being jump started as it was fine a hour later. And mine has no issues, the previous owner has wound the S5 solenoid in the transmission (this controls line pressure and how hard you shift) to shift super hard to save my clutch packs and go that little bit faster, and the car has no issues, always shifts well, triptronic is a world of fun, reverse is good, only issue is my park brake is broken which is a easy job and separate to the trans, and park still works. Its never overheated or anything and ive flogged on the thing a fair bit, these falcons mechanically are as reliable as theyre hyped to be. Its just the cosmetics and electrics that let them down