A few weeks ago our '16 Town and Country transmission started whining. Apparently the filter was clogged. Changing it stopped the noise (knock on wood).
During my subsequent pan drops (I'm on my 5th one) I noticed that the color on the stick can be very misleading. The fluid on the stick looks clean and pink. Draining it, it looks very dark, almost black in a clear plastic bottle and this is after 4 pan drops of 4 to 5 quart refills. It looks much cleaner as it's draining out of the transmission but is still very dark compared to new fluid. Hopefully it's not just eating itself up. Shifts fine so far though.
I wonder how many folks are driving around on bad looking ATF that looks clean on the dipstick.
During my subsequent pan drops (I'm on my 5th one) I noticed that the color on the stick can be very misleading. The fluid on the stick looks clean and pink. Draining it, it looks very dark, almost black in a clear plastic bottle and this is after 4 pan drops of 4 to 5 quart refills. It looks much cleaner as it's draining out of the transmission but is still very dark compared to new fluid. Hopefully it's not just eating itself up. Shifts fine so far though.
I wonder how many folks are driving around on bad looking ATF that looks clean on the dipstick.