Dealer Tranny Story

[Stickman]

03 P5 150K

Here's one for ya'.

9K miles ago I had Valvoline replace manual tranny fluid 75W90, 2.7 Qts. Seemed to shift a bit better.

5 days ago car was into Dealer for links, bushings, & seat belt bucle.
This weekend shifter started operating real tight, more difficult going into gears, notchy, all more than usual.

While changing oil today, I asked Valvoline to spray linkage per tight shifting.
Didn't help so they checked fluid. It was down 1.4 Qts! No sign of any leakage.

They topped it off, & all is back to normal issues.

No way I can legally prove Dealer did anything, but............

I wonder how much trans damage has happened in the past week?

S

 

[bit]

So why were you at a Tranny dealer? That is just wrong.


On a serious note, probably not much damage. Your bearings may have gotten a little hotter than normal, but you still had enough oil in there for the gear sets.

 

[Guest20182]

Sucks. What dealer, and where in WI?

 

[Stickman]

bit, I Hope your right.
zz, per Forum rules, I don't think I can name a business in a negative comment,
but it's the dealer probably closest to your location.

 

[hornsfan10609]

You can name any dealer you want, especially if they screwed up you car, do you want it to happen to someone else?

 

[P-Funk!]

Not much damage. You learned a valuable lesson pretty cheap - DON'T GO THERE!
LOL

 

[Stickman]

In retrospect, now that I'm a bit more calm, it could very well have been Valvoline not filling it fully 9K miles ago, although that though may be a bit of a reach.
My guess is 9K miles half full would have trashed the tranny.