Poll on Transmission Flush at High Miles

[m5james]

Originally Posted by FSETH

If you read the links provided by JCL, he as well as two reputable BMW techs (Weasel and killcrap) give pretty good reasons why changing the fluid can have adverse affects. Especially at higher mileage when no previous services were performed.

Also, I read the poll wrong. There should be one less vote for "all good and no issues so far" and one more for "never changed and I am not going to".

I run a BMW repair place here in Boise, am I mince meat here? I said in my previous post, you are correct...key words being "can" and "no previous". So for those w/ no problems now, lower mileage, etc....do it now or suffer later. I can't say it enough...NO fluid is lifetime and I've had to clean some pretty nasty stuff of the magnets in the pan, which NEVER changing the fluid will just continue move around in the system and make worse if the magnets aren't holding whatever else is floating around.