I went to my dealer to buy some DW-1, and even though their computer had it in stock, they could not locate any bottles of it.
So rather than turn away a customer over a stocking error, he found some old empty bottles of CVT, and had the service techs fill them up from their barrel with DW-1…and he gave me a substantial discount for the trouble.
I have had the bottles in my garage for a while now, just because I was in between drain and fills, but it has began to make me curious, is there any harm in ANY of the residual CVT left? I am pretty sure the parts manager made sure they were totally empty, but I know how some people are so specific about the Honda ATF- so now I am second guessing myself.
Is there any fear that maybe a few milliliters of CVT were in that bottle? I’m not a chemist or an engineer, so who knows. Honda has altered the ATF formula so many times over the years, I start to wonder as long as it is slick, it probably would work just fine.
Yeah another maybe. I can’t believe it would be a problem but I wouldn’t feel good about it. Maybe buy a few more and use just one for a drain and refill. I dunno. Where’s transman been? He used to overhaul transmissions just to destroy them for fun.
The article above is pretty good at explaining how the gearing system works when the car is moving, but isn’t very clear how the “stopped at a stop-light in gear” function works on a non-torque-converter equipped CVT. I’d always thought that CVTs used a torque converter for that function. But it’s possible to come up with some kind of belt disengagement method I expect.
