Kia telluride fluid
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There are people who say you will
There are people who will try and make you worry about warranty
Then there will be zero people who actually experienced any mechanical harm
That kia 8 speed has been out for a while and others have used maxlife and transmax without issue. However I'd upgrade to the better Valvoline EP ATF which is better suited to newer transmissions in general. I'd also use castrol transmax over maxlife first but valv EP is still the best of the 3.
What year are we talking about?
https://www.amsoil.com/p/amsoil-sig...c-automatic-transmission-fluid-atl/?zo=515729
The maxlife, transmax and ep jugs don't list every one they just list the common ones like ford, gm, nissan, and toyota but the others get left out. The only way they could include that many is if they had a medication style pull here paper thing that folds out which I wouldn't be against but you'd be seeing many of them pulled out and flopping about on the shelf and probably getting torn off.
Here's the sheet for EP. In hyundai kia it lists sp iv m
https://sharena21.springcm.com/Publ...3793b338/59f4663d-ac06-ed11-b814-48df3793b338
Here's the maxlife and transmax sheets and they're massive. No way they're fitting on the back.
https://sharena21.springcm.com/Publ...2d889bd3/5ca3517a-e29c-e711-9c10-ac162d889bd3
https://www.castrol.com/content/dam...max-universal-full-application-sheet-2_24.pdf
They honestly should include some scan me qr code for a full list of fluids on the bottle. It'd be better. All phones have it built into the camera app nowadays. No need to have a separate qr code app anymore which is what I hated about qr codes. Hated that the app had ridiculous long video ads with sound that I quickly had to lower and would have to wait through so I could use the crap scanner. But now that the camera app has them integrated I don't mind them as much.
Here's the sheet for EP. In hyundai kia it lists sp iv m
https://sharena21.springcm.com/Publ...3793b338/59f4663d-ac06-ed11-b814-48df3793b338
Here's the maxlife and transmax sheets and they're massive. No way they're fitting on the back.
https://sharena21.springcm.com/Publ...2d889bd3/5ca3517a-e29c-e711-9c10-ac162d889bd3
https://www.castrol.com/content/dam...max-universal-full-application-sheet-2_24.pdf
They honestly should include some scan me qr code for a full list of fluids on the bottle. It'd be better. All phones have it built into the camera app nowadays. No need to have a separate qr code app anymore which is what I hated about qr codes. Hated that the app had ridiculous long video ads with sound that I quickly had to lower and would have to wait through so I could use the crap scanner. But now that the camera app has them integrated I don't mind them as much.
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Valvoline's product finder even confirms it. https://www.valvolineglobal.com/en/product-finder/
It's a ZF8 speed I have been using LM Tec1800 in all my BMws. With great results. No experience with Valvoline.
Hyundai and Kia make their own in house transmissions.....it's not a ZF
Not sure why?
