Let's talk Transmission Maintenance...

[JCL]

Originally Posted by diesaroo

I do agree with you however that there will always be cases of transmission failure that are the result of a bad internal parts failing unrelated to fluid condition, although I would tend to believe that they would show up earlier in the vehicles service life than later on and would be likely during the warranty period.

See my post #29 in this thread. I provided an article on paradigms of maintenance, which discusses whether failures in complex systems are more likely to occur with time, or not. My point is that the transmission failures most will see are not in fact wear out, but are due to random mechanical and electrical failures.

Originally Posted by diesaroo

I personally just can't seem to enjoy car ownership if I adopt a defeatist attitude and allow the car to degrade and wear out by following a bare bones-I-will-if-I-have-to maintenance schedule. I am not trying to offend you, but whatever happened to taking pride in your machine?

I am not offended, but you don't know me, and you are prescribing opinions to me that are incorrect. I am a car nut. I like working on my own vehicles, for the pleasure of doing the work as much as for the outcomes. I am not at all defeatist. There is nothing bare-bones about my personal maintenance strategies. While I take pride in my vehicles, I just don't see the logic in taking pride in having changed a fluid that didn't need changing, thereby introducing potential contamination to a sealed system, and raising the chances of infant mortality post-change. Maintenance is a science, not a black art, or act of faith, IMO. Recommend again that you look at the attachment in my post #29.


Jeff