Automatic Transmission Fluid - 2012 Nag1 (W5A580)

[drover]

If you had lost any decent amount your box would tell you, have been changing these things for far too long, changing at 40K km gives me lots of practice, way too much will blow out the breather and scare the crap out of you, give some wonky shifts while not enough will give wonky, slammer/slippy shifting, and wrong fluid will give slippery shifts or lock ups............... Don't change at all and things will gum up, even if you get a change its probably too late and need to be on the bench for a strip down and clean.

[Treebreakerbob]

The original service sheets said change at forty thousand k’s but the stupid dealers when the 8 speed came out thought the life time thing included the five speed as well

I use a piece of clear 5 mm tube, down the dipstick tube till it hits the bottom, thumb over the end, pull out and measure, easy as

[Cahop]

i like the clear tube idea. i got a bit of that lying around, might give that a shot

[Liamray]

Originally Posted by FARWEST

Your just showing off with the oil vacuum...lol....Im just jealous

Only have the vacuum because I had to have one to change the oil in my boat, opps bragging about owning a boat now! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Just kidding!

Actually it’s been really handy, especially if you happen to accidentally overfill the tranny or engine, nothing worse than having to undo the sump plug or drop the tranny pan a bit to try and get some oil out.

I ended up fitting a Fumoto Oil Drain Valve in place of the original Sump Plug, so much easier to do an oil change and if you do overfill the engine it’s so easy to drain off some oil. And I no longer have to worry about possibly damaging the sump plug or the thread during removal.

[drover]

Thats interesting Bob, always thought they just carried on the earlier No service until 100K km from the previous WG/WH models, someone must have taken some notice..... but then its all the rage it seems now...........

[FARWEST]

Originally Posted by Liamray

Only have the vacuum because I had to have one to change the oil in my boat, opps bragging about owning a boat now! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Just kidding!

Actually it’s been really handy, especially if you happen to accidentally overfill the tranny or engine, nothing worse than having to undo the sump plug or drop the tranny pan a bit to try and get some oil out.

I ended up fitting a Fumoto Oil Drain Valve in place of the original Sump Plug, so much easier to do an oil change and if you do overfill the engine it’s so easy to drain off some oil. And I no longer have to worry about possibly damaging the sump plug or the thread during removal.

So much of what you say in this post could have 'saved' me from my 'Exhaust Service Needed' thread....vacuum to remove overfill, or tap on sump plug and I dont think I'd be in the position I am...we live and learn

[Brit30-06]

Hi.
I am physically unable to crawl under the Jeep to do a proper pan drop now.

I bought a cheap ebay fluid pump that connects to the battery.

I suck the Tranny fluid into a large measuring jug and then replace exactly that amount.

Not as good as the correct way, but at least it gets some clean fluid and has to be better than nothing.

Incidentally, i use Ravenol ATF+4.