That's probably true. I'm pretty sure I wait longer than I should. I just waited until around 110K on my Subaru when it would occasionally not go into gear until I let off the throttle under certain conditions. Then did the same thing at around 220K on it. Still working just like it should. Not to say that every tranny will. I WILL say that I tried switching to Redline Full synthetic ATF at that first tranny flush. It did NOT work there. The tranny slipped like mad, barely moved at all. Had to go reflush it with regular ATF... Did My wife's Subaru around 100K when the AWD was binding. The center diff(or rather an electrically controlled, tranny fluid powered multi-clutch pack) just didn't want to completely disengage around corners. I figured we had a big bill coming to rebuild the clutch pack. Sure enough, a tranny flush fixed it just fine (or at least it has been for the last 30-40K miles...)
I was REALLY hoping, it was going to fix my thunking shifts in my 83' 300D, but no luck. I suppose I'm going to have to go vacuum hunting to try and fix that one... Levi (: On 5/10/06, Donald Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Levi wrote: "As for the flushing, my main hesitation would be "how old is it?" I wouldn't bother with a flush before about 60-100K miles (depending on how "safe" you want to be)." DON'T wait 60-100K miles on a Honda. That may be true on some cars, but not on a Honda. I saw way too many of these cars with transmission problems when the transmission service had not been done. I NEVER saw one Honda with transmission problems when the owner had serviced the transmission every 30-50K miles. It is not worth it. It's $100 every 30-50,000 miles. That is cheap insurance to avoid a $2000 tranny. Donald H. Snook 1990 300SEL _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
