Gen 2 ATF - Toyota UK say it never needs changing !

We’re at 23 k miles now on the RX450h and 6300 miles on the Prime .

So it’ll take a bit to get to 50k miles but that’ll be about the next drain and fill .

Then the next might be a fair bit later if everything looks good.

 

Yeah I found each transaxle fluid change, even though I was roughly doubling the interval, the fluid was looking cleaner and cleaner. The last one (there were three) was pretty much pointless: drained and new fluid looked virtually the same. But the first drain, around 15K kms, was quite dark.

 

The RX450h at 6500 was purple and the Prime at 4000 was still pseudo red.

Easy and not that expensive as I got a good deal on a case of ATF WS.

 

I changed mine when I bought the car 17x,xxx and it was very dark.

 

I've done 3 changes in under 50K miles, about 2 too many...

 

It just means the garage queen needs to get out more .

When’s your next road trip?

We did a nice coastal trip today to Bodega Bay:



Kids played hard and slept on the way home .

They even had a ChargePoint station there.

 

^ Looks like long beach on the west coast of van island up here.

It's out of the garage today, a girls only day.

Listening to the realtime (+50yrs) of Apollo 11, interesting stuff:

Apollo 11 in Real Time

 

They're just dropping cabin pressure for the EVA........

 

Doran Beach is a nice locale here.

The wife and I have talked about a second home “beach house” and this would meet the criteria.

Except the cost.

We’ll keep saving.