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2003 Prius/MPG dropped after transaxle fluid change

Discussion in 'Generation 1 Prius Discussion' started by prius2050, Jan 18, 2012.

  1. prius2050

    prius2050 Junior Member

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    Hi i being on forums reading on how to do the transaxle fluid change and finally did it myself. I dropped and clean the pan and put new gasket. The MPG dropped a little, I was getting 44.6 before fluid change and after fluid change it dropped to 43.3 any ideas why this happened.

    car has 82,000 miles

    I might of overfilled because i only took about 4 1/2 qts and i put in all 5 of type IV..

    Please advised,

    Thank You
     
  2. cwerdna

    cwerdna Senior Member

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