I just changed it at 99,000 miles.. the guy said the old fluid looked all burnt... Did I shorten the life of my transmission by not changing it sooner and how long should I expect the tranny to last on this car?
2006-12-05 09:48:26 · 7 answers · asked by Jason 6 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
all cars are a little different. They range from as low as 15k miles all the way up to 100k miles. I am pretty sure that your car is going to recommend 30k miles. Have you had the car since new and if not do you know if it has ever been changed? You didn't hurt anything by changing it. People always say that it does more damage to change it than to just let it go after you have that many miles on it. But I don't agree with that. If you smoked for 30 years and then quit your lungs wont get worse they will get better. Now the smoking has already damaged your lungs but it can only help the remaining life of them by quiting. Same thing with the tranny fluid. By waiting so long you probably did do some damage to the clutches but changing the fluid will help the car shift better. I would do it every 20-30 k miles from now out. Depending on how long you plan on keeping the car.
2006-12-05 14:54:20 · answer #1 · answered by rwings8215 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you waited to change it at 99,000 miles you should have never changed it, I have seen cars go that long then they change the fluid and it loosens up all that old sludge in there and ends up clogging everything up and in about a week the trans. goes out.
2006-12-05 12:10:09 · answer #2 · answered by mister ss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
my fords show like 24 months for trans fluid changes but on some cars I go every year to get the most life FWD cars are a little weak compared to RWD cars and trucks in the trans area one more thing to consider is an auxilary trans cooler every 20 degrees you drop your trans fluid temp you double the life is what they say as I recall
2006-12-05 10:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by mustang_silverado 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you should chang the fluid and filter ever 50,000 miles but a lot of pepole never changed there fluid in there car and there transmissions last longer then the mortor.
2006-12-05 10:05:25 · answer #4 · answered by Toby K 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
fluid should be changed every 30,000 miles dont be scared of burnt fluid as long as the bottom of trans. pan wasnt severly dirty dont worry about it .
2006-12-05 10:01:58 · answer #5 · answered by jb 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it's never been changed do it thing I would change it every 25,000 miles change the filter too
2006-12-05 10:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
should be changed every 30,000 miles. yes you probly did shorten the life of your trans. they usually last about 130,000 miles.
2006-12-05 12:46:10 · answer #7 · answered by dnlhlycrss 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋