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Old 10-25-2024, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Purplecty View Post
Yeah it looks like one has updated labeling. The barcode numbers on the back match. Napa has it for 6.49 a qt so autozone matched the price and let me take the gallons which were priced at $35 each. I have maxlife in my E38 which works well. The import seemed to have almost identical specs as the ZF fluid the last I compared spec sheets.
Gotcha.

I wonder if the import is as thin as ZF LF6 (your 4.6 probably uses LF5?). That's why I stopped using it. In fresh transmissions it works great, but anything that's seen 100k+ without a service and I've had no luck with it. Almost always end up throwing in the MaxLife.
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