Appreciate the words of wisdom @kodiakisland @PatioDaddio78 . Your experiences are helpful, I was looking at it more like "impending doom", but that's a bit wrong based on your experiences.
Thanks much!
Sad to join this thread, but misery loves company as they say.
Got my 21' Badlands MT in March (8900mi) and about a month later (April) heard the scraping noise. Took it in for diagnosis shortly thereafter and have been awaiting a transmission replacement ever since.
I really loved it the 30...