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View Poll Results: Is it necessary to change the "Lifetime" trans oil in the X5 4.4 at 100k?
Yes 26 74.29%
No 4 11.43%
It's Lifetime, therefore NEVER 5 14.29%
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Old 05-03-2010, 10:34 PM
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Now that being your 3rd change by the 75k mile mark will keep you from having the bad side affects of waiting till a higher mileage like 100k for the first fluid change.
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The risk is real very real, not urban legend.
Again with the strawmen. I have repeatedly acknowledged there is a risk. Why do you continue to argue as if I hadn't?
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Old 04-13-2010, 06:27 PM
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Again with the strawmen. I have repeatedly acknowledged there is a risk. Why do you continue to argue as if I hadn't?
Is there a risk, or is it urban legend? I still don't know where you stand. You can't have it both ways. One or the other please.
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Old 04-13-2010, 06:30 PM
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Is there a risk, or is it urban legend? I still don't know where you stand. You can't have it both ways. One or the other please.
There is a risk and it is an urban legend. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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Old 04-13-2010, 06:42 PM
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There is a risk and it is an urban legend. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Lets clean the slate and start over for a minute. What exactly is the point that you are trying to get accross in this thread?
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Old 04-13-2010, 06:55 PM
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Lets clean the slate and start over for a minute. What exactly is the point that you are trying to get accross in this thread?
I am saying there is no proof showing a correlation between transmission fluid changes and subsequent transmission failures. And that such a claim is nothing but an urban legend.

To help illustrate:

When changing the oil in a vehicle there is a risk the drain plug can be over tightend and strip the treads of the oil pan or plug. Just because this risk exists, and it has been known to happen on occasion, does not mean there is a correlation that changing the oil results in stripped oil pans or plugs. I would consider such a claim an urban legend even though the risk is there and I can point to examples of it happening.
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