235K tranny fluid?
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See youtube professor, John Kelly about the topic.
All the full compatible is a marketing deal.
Show where all the manufactures gave approval for using it.
No manufacturers give approval for use of Maxlife but that doesn't mean it isn't suitable. No manufacturer gives approval for the use of any aftermarket fluid, Idemitsu and Aisin included.
Some manufacturers will license their fluid specification (Dexron, Euro, etc.) but some do not. For those who do not then any fluid other than the OEM branded fluid is an aftermarket fluid.
So much lore about ATF. Maxlife is not "for" GM and "some Ford" transmissions any more or any less than Honda and Toyota. Valvoline says it is suitable for the vehicles listed in their list, and as far as that goes they are all equally suitable.
JHZR2
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Needs to be done. If you’re lucky maybe it was once.
I’d argue you go slow. If there’s a drain plug, just drain the pan and refill. If not, extract by the dipstick. The idea is that you want to slowly add detergents and dispersants in there and get some new fluid in before changing everything. Get what you can into the old filter before swapping to a new one.
I’d run the OE fluid and get it done.
I’d argue you go slow. If there’s a drain plug, just drain the pan and refill. If not, extract by the dipstick. The idea is that you want to slowly add detergents and dispersants in there and get some new fluid in before changing everything. Get what you can into the old filter before swapping to a new one.
I’d run the OE fluid and get it done.
wemay
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If this vehicle has a fill-hole accessed from the top of the transmission, i would pump out what i could and fill that same amount. I'd do this during the next 2 or 3 oil changes.
This comes up in a search for "cocaine and tranny hookers." I was searching on behalf of a friend.
Except for the bazillions of cars happily running around on MaxLife.
If there were problems, don't you think we would be hearing about them?
It's worth changing, and there is a drain plug, so no need to drop the pan 
All the information I seen on my own vehicles are 150,000 miles max for "Lifetime fluid". Sooner under harder conditions. If yours has not been done in a while might as well get it changed. Now if you think this vehicle is anywhere near its end then don't bother obviously.
Yes I keep waiting to hear about all the class action lawsuits popping up against Valvoline, Castrol, Mobil, Amsoil, Pennzoil, Red Line, etc. All these mfgs sell products that they stand behind and market as suitable for just about every vehicle on the road today. How can this scam keep happening? Why are the federal government(s) not stepping up to protect us??!?