Hey guys, just a general question....How often are we suppossed to get transmision oil changes??? Whats the regular or HEALTHTHY interval???

i read somewhere in the manual like 75K?!?!?! maybe im wrong or i read it wrong....

thanks

 

does anyone here have a clue?? im sure someone knows

 

I believe i read in my 97CL's manual that at every 30K interval to have it changed..

 

yeah, you change tranny at 75K for sure

 

LOL are you asking for sure or is this a joke? in the 2nd gen cl they seem to think that 15000 mi is the trick to staying healthy and a way to avoid early tranny misshaps ... at least that is what they recomended to me after the first tranny took a dump.... Fotr me they did so under waranty When I felt the second was going out I sold the pos (tranny) back to the dealer >;] :whocares:

 

For me it's a nine qt flush every 15k,,, but who knows,, this time I think I'll send the oil over to the lab,,, maybe I track the wear,, maybe not,,,

 

I change mine every 15,000 miles. The manual says 30,000 but I was told by several mechanics at Acura to do it at 15,000.

 

anyone change it every 15k and yet still had tranny problems?

 

my dealer told me to do it every 30K. i asked if i should do it every 15k, and they said no. oh well, i'll do it 30k......like i care.

 

I do it every 30,000 but i do a triple tranny flush. Drain the fluid out, fill with new tranny fuild, go up 55-60 mph, Drain, fill, run through the gears, and then Drain and fill. The first time i did the fluid was like dark dark brown, and then it got closer to the pinkish color, third time was good. I have a friend that works at a acura service center, he said you don't have to do but it better that u do.

 

Check your tranny fluid monthly or more so depending on how HARD you are on your car. Don't go by what the engineers at Honda say in our manual ! I would change it every 15,000 to be on the mental safe side.

 

I did my 1st drain (3Qrts) at 30 kmiles I will do the the 2nd (3Qrts) at 45kmiles.

 

So, did u do it yourself?? is this a job similar to oil changes? Is it easy like that?...or, would it be wiser to take it to the dealer?

 

alright guys, please make it clear that there is a difference between a drain (simple change) and a flush (forcing fluid at high pressure through the tranny).

that is all.