This filter should be enough to prevent debris from building up inside the tranny.
Does the fluid need to be changed even if it is free of debris, translucent red, with no burnt smell? What does the carmaker recommend?
Too bad so few cars have an external, changeable filter for their trannies.
I didn’t
Yup
There is a reason
I get paid more and get WAY better benefits being a public sector mechanic
Go ahead and send me that private message, please
I agree. I wish they all came with spin on cartridge filter.
You and I both know that dealer techs will do fluid changes for fast easy money. When the good/more experienced ones are busy with more expensive, complicated, repairs, fluid changes get handed off to to the techs with less experience. Good techs don’t want to waste time doing things that aren’t necessary when they aren’t being paid for it, and new techs are already just squeaking by doing the fluid and external filter swaps without further investigation or cleaning. Obviously, maintenance-free is a unicorn, when it comes to automobiles, and if it was your car, you’d say yeah f**k it, I’ll swap that $20 part in loo of paying for a premature rebuild. But 90% of techs are just turning wrenches to put food on the table or beer in their bellies. Your talking about spending an extra +30 mins removing, cleaning, scrubbing gasket surfaces, resealing, potentially waiting for silicone to cure, when the manual (which is what the majority of techs are working off of) says nothing about it… you have 4 tranny fluids swaps in a day, you just wasted 2 hours of no pay… doesn’t add up.