Hello!
i have a general question about changing( not flushing) tranny fluid. Ive seen several of Scotty’s videos where he recommends doing a fluid change by draining the pan or drain plug, then refilling what came out with new fluid. He says to do so every 60-80k miles. However my two cars that i have( 04 kia spectra ex with 198k miles, and 07 Nissan murano with 147k miles). The kia was given to me for free at 193k miles recently and i have no idea what maintenance was done on it. Same with the Nissan which was bought with 118k miles from carmax. Im pretty sure the Nissan murano has a cvt tranny, so my main question is whether it would be beneficial to do tranny fluid changes on either car, or should just leave them be since i have no idea how they were maintained prior.
Im confused on this because I also watched a video by Scotty where he says when they've got so many miles with possibly no fluid change that changing the fluid could cause the tranny to slip and malfunction, that your basically on borrowed time and it would be more prudent to just keep driving it until it breaks, that changing the fluid at this point would do more harm than hood.
you're on borrowed time with both of those vehicles anyways you look at it if the shift okay now I would never chance changing the fluid they may not even move on their own power if you do change it now from slippage
Thanks Scotty, I appreciate the response. I figured that was the case, I just wanted to be sure. Btw i was also considering adding some lucus stop slip to the kia that has 198k in the near future, it shifts fine i was just wondering if i were to add it by taking out dome tranny fluid, the amount of the lucus stop slip that im adding, if that would help it last as long as possible?