How to Change Your Transmission Fluid

Not necessarily. Honda for one, recommends a single drain and fill with their traditional automatics. They know only 50% drains, but that's ok. I suppose they adjust the interval accordingly.

The only time they suggest a full "flush" is in case of fluid contamination, say engine oil inadvertently poured in. And even then the process is simple, albeit more time consuming and costly. The flush is just a series of drain-and-fills, with a good drive in between, three if I recall correctly.

 

Spoken from experience?

Or do you know someone who has.

 

Yeah, I'd poured in about 8 oz of motor oil before I woke up. DIY'd the multiple drain and fills, chagrined...

 

At one of the Bay Area meetups, one member had bought type IV atf for his Gen2 .

After the second bottle was being added, I walked by and said “wait, what”.

That prompted a similar activity.

Sorted it before bad things happened .

 

At least he was using some sort of transmission fluid. My offence was a felony...

 

So many ways to overcomplicate a simple drain-n-fill!

 

Thanks. I have that document around here somewhere. I just couldn't seem to find it when I wanted it.

 

If you want to DIY, you can come to one of the meetups close to you :

Possible Monthly install meets. Bay Area-Fremont

All it’ll cost you is the ATF-WS.

One way to approach it anyway.

 

They likely have NO clue what's involved. Either that or they're robbers.

 

We’ve got the tools.

All you need are 4 quarts of ATF-WS .

And this meetup will be in an actual shop if we get the timing right.

 

"Service Advisers" love padding their commission.

 

Even if you do it alone, you don't need any fancy tools or a pump if you have simple stuff like small funnel, hose, and hex key.

 

Good guess about a six pack! Got the fluid wrong though…

 

Other than the big plastic shield you have to remove to access the plugs, it's way easier than changing the engine oil.

 

I take the full shield off for oil changes too. Takes 10 minutes tops, once you're used to it. If you never do it, then the plastic fasteners may be seized up with grit.

There are some access openings in the shield, in vicinity of transaxle drain/fill bolts, but not taking the shield off I suspect you'd get some splashing. Not sure, never tried it.

 

That was a joke, methinks..
Four quarts should be ample.

 

Summertime. Bunch of guys messing with cars. Six pack…