Uh oh... too much ARX.

[MrCPU]

So I was working on my car (97 corolla), and thinking evil thoughts about engineers that design bottles (specifically the ARX one) that aren't quite the same size as other bottles, so that my universal pour spout adapters wouldn't quite fit, and I didn't have a clean funnel with a small enough tip to go in the tranny dipstick spout, and cursing the ground that marketers and engineers that like to just change stuff for the sake of change walk on, and wonder who hires people like that in the first place, when I realized that I had poured in the whole bottle, rather than the 6 oz's the directions call for.

Presumably it won't hurt anything, but I figure I'd just better check. Guess it should be extra clean...

I did drain the pan of just under 4 quarts of ATF, and put in 4 quarts, well, 3.5 really of ST ATF. Was gonna drive it for a few miles, then check it and top it off, but I figured 3.5 was close enough to 4 for a short hop or two...

 

[datsago]

Originally Posted By: MrCPU
cursing the ground that marketers and engineers that like to just change stuff for the sake of change walk on, and wonder who hires people like that in the first place

Can't help you on the ARX since I haven't gotten mine yet. But for the quote about marketers and engineers: it is both a way to differentiate a product --uniqueness sell$ -- and to force people to use their propriertary products, which also drives sales. It is why, for example that, say, a manufacturer calls for 1.5 quarts of their product, but only packages it in 1 quart bottles, so you are forced to buy at least two bottles. It seems engineers no longer design things for reliability or ease-of-fixing or replacement, but a combination of performance and aggravation.

 

[Steve S]

Won't hurt.

 

[gr8shot]

Well, I can tell you this... I'm an engineer, and its usually not us (engineers) who do dumb things like that. True we design them, but its the business people, and accountants who come up with the harebrained ideas for things like that. As an engineer I was taught to make things the simplest possible way to effictevly do the job. As are all engineers. Its the beancounters who see a way to line their pockets a little bit who make the problems. They tell the CEO that they know how to make more money, so the CEO tells the engineers that they're idiots for not thinking of it themselves. Its a vicious circle, but unfortunatley in todays market, money talks!!!

 

[kc8adu]

i doubt you did any harm other than wasting arx that could have been put to use elsewhere.

 

[BrianWC]

Agreed. You're fine!