Sorry, can't figure out your user name. I always think of "I am Sam, Sam I am" when I see it. I am guessing there is an MBA reference in there.

You appear to have a background in DFMEA, or PFMEA, etc, but the word production suggests a controlled process, like in manufacturing. Not assuming here, just hypothesizing. If so, you won't find the same type of statistics for service repairs in the field. Especially on a discussion forum, where, as we already agreed, no individual data source has been qualified. The knowledge is based on the experiences of professional technicians. Apart from the design engineer's info, which we don't have access to. Except for their conclusions about which fluid to use, which you don't accept as valid.

In reporting on your recent success, you are also not differentiating between changing the fluid, and bringing it up to the correct level. The latter is only suspect because of your comment that it was leaking from multiple locations when you started, the fact that it can't leak and stay at the correct level, and the knowledge that low fluid level produces the original symptoms you described.

Nobody is disputing your results. Nobody is telling you what to do. But when you said that nobody will know what to do until their transmission goes bang, that it is all just opinion, red apples and green apples, some of us commented that while we can't predict a failure on an individual unit, we can predict the statistical likelihood of failure, relative to using the correct fluid or not. That's all.

What did you think of the link?

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