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Originally Posted by Brandon002
If you're against spending hundreds on maintenance every few years you're driving the wrong car. Like I said, you continue to run lifetime fluid and I will continue to service mine at intervals. I have always done this with all of my cars and I have never had a transmission problem.
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I am a firm believer in preventative maintenance. I followed this philosophy for decades in the heavy equipment field. I apply it to my vehicles as well. Just not the automatic transmission fluid in my X5.
I've never had an automatic transmission problem either, since the restoration of a 66 Mustang that had a failed Cruisomatic transmission when I bought it. No problems after overhauling it.
I am not trying to talk you out of changing your transmission fluid. Each owner should do what they feel is right.
All I was pointing out is that many of the reasons given for doing regular preventative maintenance fluid changes on X5 automatic transmissions don't hold up to scrutiny. They don't have an economic basis. But not everything we do has to have a payback. Sometimes it just feels right.
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