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Originally Posted by Jim M3
I have to disagree with the notion of not changing tranny fluid. I used to tow my boat with the X5 and the number one cause of tranny failure is high temps, you should have seen how bad my tranny fluid was when we changed it. I did this three times in the last two years the car has 147k miles on it and I have had no transmission issues at all, despite towing.
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+1 Over the years all of my vehicles with automatics got their fluid changed every 30k. I never had an automatic trans failure in 30 years.
This is my first BMW with an automatic though... trans fluid change is on the schedule before the next major road trip.