ATF drain and fill

Any loss in MPG or other symptoms? Is the lighting different than normal? Did you check in different lighting? Send Pics please!

 

If you still have it, I'd have it analyzed. Silver is strange, It might be aluminum particles.

 

How many miles on the fluid, and has it been changed before?

 

Maybe this is why? Some kind of chemical reaction?

If this is not the first draining of the transaxle, which is usually very dark red, then it usually comes out much lighter, red, not very dark in colo(u)r.

I put that u in color for Mendel.


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The difference between the old and the new should liik something like this;

 

You’re using Toyota ATF WS?

 

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There’s gotta be lots(!) of metal particles to make oil look silver color. That much metal does not come off without symptoms of some kind (sound, vibration, fault codes etc). Why you proceeded to change oil in the first place? Our atf oil was replaced first time at 130k miles. I think these transmissions can last very long with factory oil since there’s nothing to wear except bearings

edit: when you made first change you are sure you put in correct amount?

 

At only 20K on the once changed transaxle fluid, it should look pretty much like fresh fluid, like the one Georgina Rutkus posted above, on the right.

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