what transmission do i have and what oil is best?
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I too am thankful that after 11 years of owning and working on my TL, we finally have someone here who knows it all. All I've done is swap my own tranny out for an AV6, and also before that I brought my tranny back from the dead at 170K to last until 206K, but according to our new friend I am an "idiot" so I'll just keep the details to myself. I'm actually going to flush all the DW1 out for redline and maxlife after his 100 miles of pure success with it.
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The max life has also been proven to be virtually shear free in several tests, which means its viscosity does not change to any significant degree over time . The Z1 fluid shears a great deal which may be one of the causes of premature failure in some of these transmissions.
Here's just one of several threads regarding it.
https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forum...pics/2946485/1
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I too am thankful that after 11 years of owning and working on my TL, we finally have someone here who knows it all. All I've done is swap my own tranny out for an AV6, and also before that I brought my tranny back from the dead at 170K to last until 206K, but according to our new friend I am an "idiot" so I'll just keep the details to myself. I'm actually going to flush all the DW1 out for redline and maxlife after his 100 miles of pure success with it.
ummm...sorry, but according to several people on this thread it is impossible to bring a tranny back from the "dead" like you allege you did and like I actually did . oh wait, maybe it wasn't really dead like they said it was.
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Semantics. Dead to some means it doesn't work at all or you'll be walking soon. Dead to others means it still works and I don't mind walking soon. If you're strictly going by the bottom line, spending less than a rental on the car for as long as it lasts - a day, a week, a month then you're ahead at the moment (minus time spent fiddling around I suppose). As long as you don't incur any costs when it doesn't move anymore, you'll be ahead I guess. Then there are other less scrupulous folks who would sell the car if it's running good and not disclose the tranny problems, but of course, I know you're not one of those.
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Semantics. Dead to some means it doesn't work at all or you'll be walking soon. Dead to others means it still works and I don't mind walking soon. If you're strictly going by the bottom line, spending less than a rental on the car for as long as it lasts - a day, a week, a month then you're ahead at the moment (minus time spent fiddling around I suppose). As long as you don't incur any costs when it doesn't move anymore, you'll be ahead I guess. Then there are other less scrupulous folks who would sell the car if it's running good and not disclose the tranny problems, but of course, I know you're not one of those.
As far as the time I spent on fixing the trans and getting the codes cleared and buying the parts etc, it is probably around a total of 14 hours and I spent more time getting the parts than I did actually working on it . Since the dealer near me charges well over $100.00 an hour and way more for the parts and oil than I paid and I had spare time to do it, the time and cost was relatively nominal . They wanted $390.00 for the top solenoids . I got factory Honda ones from autozone for $260.00, lol.
As far as selling a car that has tranny problems and not disclosing them, well it no longer has tranny problems, therefore, there is nothing to disclose, however, you are correct in that unlike many people, even though the trans now works just fine, I would tell prospective buyers what was wrong and what I did to fix it and they can make their decision based on that as well as on how it drives and shifts etc, which in fact is basically perfectly, and it is only a wild guess as to when the trans will truly die, but in my case, I am already just about breaking even from not having to pay for a rental car, therefore, from here on out I get farther ahead every day it continues to run.