The Gemini
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The SHO is at just about 13,500 miles in its' first year. For a "birthday present", I decided to go ahead and have the transmission fluid changed. I had been noticing the car rolling ever so slightly when putting it in "Park", and along with my driving style, figured it wouldn't be a bad idea.
The shop I use hooks it up and does the BG tranny flush and fill. Took 12 quarts to complete. While they had it up on the rack, I asked them to look into what would be involved with changing the PTU ****. I've heard about and experienced first hand WAAAAAYYYYY too many PTU failures to know & accept there was NO way I was going to go past 20K miles without having it changed.
$340 dollars later, both are complete. Money very well spent, and I would strongly suggest anyone with a PTU car to change the **** in the PTU no more than every 20K miles. As mentioned, my car is only at 13,500 miles, but when they removed the drain plug, they found there were already small metallic shavings/particles being picked up on the magnetized drain plug. Also found the **** to be changing its' consistency to a thicker, grayish type of mess already.
FWIW, they charged me $89 for the PTU change, which really isn't bad considering what I would have gone through trying to do it myself. They drained out the old FF **** through the drain plug, and then put in the new through the vent tube via a very long funnel via the top of the engine compartment. Took several hours for the thick gear oil to drain through the small diameter vent tube this way, which I verified by driving by the shop and seeing my car sitting there with a giant yellow BG funnel sticking out of it.
As far as the tranny fluid, that was also well worth it. The rocking is no longer present when shifting into different gears, and it just feels "tighter", if that makes sense (cue the dirty minded jokes....)
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The shop I use hooks it up and does the BG tranny flush and fill. Took 12 quarts to complete. While they had it up on the rack, I asked them to look into what would be involved with changing the PTU ****. I've heard about and experienced first hand WAAAAAYYYYY too many PTU failures to know & accept there was NO way I was going to go past 20K miles without having it changed.
$340 dollars later, both are complete. Money very well spent, and I would strongly suggest anyone with a PTU car to change the **** in the PTU no more than every 20K miles. As mentioned, my car is only at 13,500 miles, but when they removed the drain plug, they found there were already small metallic shavings/particles being picked up on the magnetized drain plug. Also found the **** to be changing its' consistency to a thicker, grayish type of mess already.
FWIW, they charged me $89 for the PTU change, which really isn't bad considering what I would have gone through trying to do it myself. They drained out the old FF **** through the drain plug, and then put in the new through the vent tube via a very long funnel via the top of the engine compartment. Took several hours for the thick gear oil to drain through the small diameter vent tube this way, which I verified by driving by the shop and seeing my car sitting there with a giant yellow BG funnel sticking out of it.
As far as the tranny fluid, that was also well worth it. The rocking is no longer present when shifting into different gears, and it just feels "tighter", if that makes sense (cue the dirty minded jokes....)
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