Official word from Toyota on the PSD

[FishHawk]

"Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
We appreciate your response. The transmission fluid should be changed as necessary, upon inspection by a Toyota dealership. There is no specified replacement interval to replace the transmission fluid."

So here it is. It's up to the dealership. Guess we have to trust that they will not change it unnecessarily just to make a quick buck.
So when is the correct time? I would think perhaps at 60K would be a good time. On my RAV 4 I never changed it and got over 175K trouble free miles out of the tranny.


FishHawk

[ditto231]

So when is the correct time? I would think perhaps at 60K would be a good time. On my RAV 4 I never changed it and got over 175K trouble free miles out of the tranny.
FishHawk
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For the new cars now I think it's 100k miles. But I know a lot of people don't change their tranny fluid until they see the problem. Like your Rav 4, it will run forever. Just check the level once in a while.

[FishHawk]

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So when is the correct time? I would think perhaps at 60K would be a good time. On my RAV 4 I never changed it and got over 175K trouble free miles out of the tranny.
FishHawk
For the new cars now I think it's 100k miles. But I know a lot of people don't change their tranny fluid until they see the problem. Like your Rav 4, it will run forever. Just check the level once in a while.
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Had the shop forman check it out at the dealership where I work and under severe conditions Toyota recommend a change at 60K. FishHawk

[Sho-Bud]

I took a look at the maintanance schedule of Toyota Netherlands.
It only says inspect every 45000 km or 3 every years.

[FishHawk]

The foreman got the info that all the car dealers use to maintain various brands of cars. It's very confusing .However, for driving up here in MA. the severe conditions would apply.

[jburns]

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However, for driving up here in MA. the severe conditions would apply.
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I don't know. Excessive heat is what causes the breakdown of oils. I'd think Pheonix would be much harder on trans fluid than up your way.

[HTMLSpinnr]

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I'd think Pheonix would be much harder on trans fluid than up your way.
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Which is why I did mine at 60k in the 2004. I haven't gotten around to having it analyzed yet, but I can see that a very small amount of solid matter has settled to the bottom of the bottle (250ml size, mostly full). The <$50 in parts is cheap insurance against needing to replace the PSD assembly or worse the entire PSD/MG (tranny) of the car.

It still hit 90°F today, but the nights are cooling off to the 60's. :-)

[bwilson4web]

Hi,

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"Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
We appreciate your response. The transmission fluid should be changed as necessary, upon inspection by a Toyota dealership. There is no specified replacement interval to replace the transmission fluid."

So here it is. It's up to the dealership. Guess we have to trust that they will not change it unnecessarily just to make a quick buck.

So when is the correct time? I would think perhaps at 60K would be a good time. On my RAV 4 I never changed it and got over 175K trouble free miles out of the tranny. [/b]

"The transmission fluid should be changed as necessary . . ." pull a sample, send it for testing and have a happy. That is what I did:

http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/pri_toil.html
http://hiwaay.net/~bzwilson/prius/pri_T_cold.html

I change my own oil and send the samples for testing.

Bob Wilson