I was doing a little maintenance on the Versa today and had 1.5qts of Valvoline Maxlife ATF on hand, so I suctioned out 1.5qts of ATF (cold) through the pain in the arse dummy dipstick tube and refilled with a section of vinyl tubing snaked down into the tube, with a small funnel shoved into the tubing.
I had purchased a cheap $28 vacuum fluid extractor for this purpose. Trac outdoor brand. ~3qt capacity. It worked OK, but took 20min of fiddling to suck out 1.5qts of cold ATF.
I should have just manned up and pulled the drain plug on the trans pan and figured out what it takes to remove the "straw", level check pipe, or what ever you want to call it that's up the drain plug hole so you can drain much more of the pan.
What drained out looked pretty dark for a 2015 with under 43K miles. Not the best pic, but here's what the factory Matic-S looked like:
I had purchased a cheap $28 vacuum fluid extractor for this purpose. Trac outdoor brand. ~3qt capacity. It worked OK, but took 20min of fiddling to suck out 1.5qts of cold ATF.
I should have just manned up and pulled the drain plug on the trans pan and figured out what it takes to remove the "straw", level check pipe, or what ever you want to call it that's up the drain plug hole so you can drain much more of the pan.
What drained out looked pretty dark for a 2015 with under 43K miles. Not the best pic, but here's what the factory Matic-S looked like: