# Transmission Fluid Change - 2006 Toyota Camry **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 28, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/transmission-fluid-change-2006-toyota-camry/92865 "2016-03-28T22:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/transmission-fluid-change-2006-toyota-camry/92865/7 "2016-03-29T02:19:48Z")
“No need to ever change the gear oil or ATF in a manual transmission.” Maybe this applied to older American cars. Lots of Corolla/Matrix owners who have had their transmission fail prematurely due to oil contaminated with metal particles would disagree. I changed the oil in my Matrix at 22k miles after reading that its C59 transmission was problematic; and the oil looked pretty “dirty” and felt gritty. My older Hondas ('75 Civic, '81, '85, '88 Accords) all recommended 30k oil changes. Oil is cheaper than transmissions. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/transmission-fluid-change-2006-toyota-camry/92865)._