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  • Fair enough, but my thing is for anyone else reading this that doesn’t know about cars, the takeaway shouldn’t be “you can probably take a Toyota to 250k without changing the fluid so don’t sweat it and save your pennies”

    it should be “change that fluid when you are able to (search for the right intervals for your car on forums and such, but the right answer isn’t “forever”, even if that’s what the manufacturer says). It’s possible it might last until 250k if it’s a Toyota and you’re lucky; but you never really know, and if you don’t you’re only guaranteeing you won’t be able to rely on that car much sooner than if you did”




  • one of the biggest lies from manufacturers, tbh

    They’ve had to roll back that “lifetime fluid” claim for some cars before due to early transmission failures. It’s not a lot of money to change it out.

    Any transmission will take damage from not changing out the fluid, you’re just reducing the lifespan of it, and that’s exactly what they want.