Bottle of Lubegard Red in my '03 Passat W8 auto

[TiGeo]

We had a 2007 Saab 95 TID which had a Aisin Warner AW55-50 that had a few weird changes, delayed shifts and the occasional random flare.

I did a load of drain & fills and the last fill I added a bottle of Lubegaurd Red. It took ~500miles or so but the gearbox ended up running perfectly.

If I had an auto in the fleet right now, I'd be running the Lubegaurd Red permanently.

I need to wait it out for a few '00 miles before I make any comments...LB says it can take 150 mile or more I believe to feel any improvement.

 

[TiGeo]

Approaching ~150 miles after adding a bottle of the LG red. Seems to be chugging along just fine. Actually did some logging yesterday of the auto trans and based on a convo with some experts in the W8 world, it seems this "hiccup" I call it is just the torque converter lock/clutch engaging which drops the RPMs a bit - the logs shows it clearly...it just happens slower than I would expect....clutch partially engaged....clutch engaged. To me it should be smoother but the activity seems to be "normal" with no faults/errors etc. Runs/shifts well. I will just do another drain and fill (and filter) with the ZF kit from FCP Euro this winter for good measure and I'll add a bottle of LG red again.

 

[nicholas]

Approaching ~150 miles after adding a bottle of the LG red. Seems to be chugging along just fine. Actually did some logging yesterday of the auto trans and based on a convo with some experts in the W8 world, it seems this "hiccup" I call it is just the torque converter lock/clutch engaging which drops the RPMs a bit - the logs shows it clearly...it just happens slower than I would expect....clutch partially engaged....clutch engaged. To me it should be smoother but the activity seems to be "normal" with no faults/errors etc. Runs/shifts well. I will just do another drain and fill (and filter) with the ZF kit from FCP Euro this winter for good measure and I'll add a bottle of LG red again.

So would you say you experience with LG is positive?

 

[TiGeo]

So would you say you experience with LG is positive?

Sure - For $10 or whatever from Amazon it didn't blow my car up and seems to have had some positive impact.

 

[RooflessVW]

I did the ATF in my Touareg today and used Lubegard red as always.

Did you reset your transmission adaptation?

 

[Trav]

I have used it for years in all sorts of transmission and never had a problem, actually had some good results. Not snake oil.

 

[TiGeo]

I did the ATF in my Touareg today and used Lubegard red as always.

Did you reset your transmission adaptation?

No...not sure how on this.

 

[RooflessVW]

No...not sure how on this.

Should be the old pedal dance.

Key on
Gas pedal all the way down for ten seconds
Off the pedal
Key off

There should also be a basic setting in module 02.

 

[TiGeo]

Should be the old pedal dance.

Key on
Gas pedal all the way down for ten seconds
Off the pedal
Key off

There should also be a basic setting in module 02.

I'll look tomorrow. Thanks!