# Fix in a bottle

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/fix-in-a-bottle/20066>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [September 27, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fix-in-a-bottle/20066 "2008-09-27T16:08:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bedrock](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bedrock/32/868_2.png) [@bedrock](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bedrock)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fix-in-a-bottle/20066/1 "2008-09-27T16:08:22Z")

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do transmission sealer in a bottle work.

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**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fix-in-a-bottle/20066/2 "2008-09-27T16:15:23Z")

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All reletive to the location of, and degree of leak. Might help seapage but will not fix a torn or dried seal. The biggest concern with any stop leak ( coolant, engine, or transmission ) is that if you use too much you will stop up the fluid passage-ways where the fluid is supposed to flow.

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fix-in-a-bottle/20066/3 "2008-09-27T17:23:08Z")

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Personally I would vote for a real fix.

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**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GreasyJack)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fix-in-a-bottle/20066/4 "2008-09-27T21:02:51Z")

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What are you trying to seal? Is the transmission leaking or slipping or what? Also year, make, and model would help.

I had a Trans-X product help an occasional slip in the transmission of my old '72 Dodge Pickup years ago, but that’s a very different beast from a modern automatic.