so im a complete retard when it comes to my cars... last night my tranny started slipping and first thing i did was check the tranny fluid. oh no i have almost none in it, so i got a ride to the store and bought some tranny fluid and some motor oil. i make a makeshift funnel and grab a bottle started pouring it into the tranny fluid dipstick thingy, and i realize i had the wrong bottle i was pouring motor oil into it...

thats why i dont work on my own car, i poured half a quart of motor oil into my transmission. now my car is in the shop im looking at 60 for the tow, 120 for the flush, and possible 3g's for a new tranny...


i feel like a complete retard right now..

 

sooo... good news is i didnt mess up the tranny with the motor oil...

bad news is it was shot before i did that.


1800 to rebuild, twice that to replace.

 

that was fucked up..

 

wow thats bad man, the closest thing ive ever done like that is put salt instead of sugar in a customers milk shake at a restaurant i worked at last year lol
i got "laid off" after that lol sorry bout the tranny man, what can i say? everyone has a lil bit of bad luck

 

this is great, a classic dyslexia moment. oh, and sorry bout the tranny

 

yea im happy i see the humor in it. i had thoughts about just coasting it into a busy street but decided against that. haha

 

my tranny is going too but you could seriously hurt someone coasting it on a busy street. i was gonna leave mine (on fire) on a sidestreet in newark or drive it off a bridge.jk

sorry to hear about the tranny,it sux,im waiting for mine to go.(anytime now)

 

yea i know.. they are ripping the tranny out now. but the guy said its not shot, just need to replace something in it. which is good to hear. a lot cheaper than i originally thought.

 

i <3 my CL i swear i do, but i would <3 even more to get out of my loan for it. i owe 7500 on it, it has 130k miles on it, and i would be lucky to get 5gs for it... if i could get out of the loan without losing thousands i would go buy a 06 lexus or a new tsx....

 

well... 1800 dollars later im going to pick her up in an hour... maybe she will run better now... im getting her tuned up in a week or so. hopefully no probs for a while.

 

dyme that is mest up...hope things go ok afterwards..

 

well it runs fine, just seems to rev a bit higher before shifting now.

 

Take it easy on the new transmission. You should kind of baby it for the first 500 miles or so. You don't want to create excessive wear on the internals.

Also, when you bought the transmission fluid, what did you buy. You can use the DOT 3 stuff long enough to get it to a shop in a pinch, but I hope you bought Honda ATF. If you didn't, it wouldn't have mattered anyway. It sounds like you tranmission was done for... But had it not been, that could have been a very costly mistake, motor oil not withstanding.