Valvoline Restore and Protect ATF
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That's interesting. I've got 30k on my 23 3.5 ecoboost and I plan on doing a drain and fill this spring. I plan on making a thread about recommendations. I wonder what makes HPL Green more suitable than HPL teal?
You’d have to ask Dave specifics of why, but you can find his posts here saying they run it in all the 10R80s of their personal trucks.
All I know is mine is more consistent on shift quality since I swapped in the Green CC.
I will stick to Amsoil ATF. And gear oil.
If I were to change it would be to HPL.
If I were to change it would be to HPL.
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How many miles have you put on the car since you added the maxlife?
Does your WS fluid look "bad" when you change it? For some reason it always looks dirty when we change customers even when it's in the 30-50) range. Just curious. I own one Toyota, a 22 Taco and I've been running Valvoline Extended Protection in it and it seems to do very well. That of course is an Asian RWD transmission. Don't know too much about the FWD transmissions.
Put it on! The chances of something going badly are very slim. I would if I had some.Mine is 16 years old so no warranty, but even with confirmation from valvoline that it is atf 4 compatible I'm still sort of leery of using it. I have 3 gallons of it in my garage but can't work up the nerve to use it. I don't want to be the first guinea pig to the experiment
Did first full service at 75,000 then sucked pan out at 90k and again at 108k ...now at 123,000 thinking ppe pan in the spring ..... transmission shifts beautiful with maxlife atf no reason to change .......also run in transmissionfer case since 65k changed at 100k
Not this weekend, but next weekend I'll probably tackle the fluid and filter change.
I did replace the atf4 in my power steering with the Valvoline Restore and Protect atf about 400 miles ago and it's been fine. Needed to change it anyway and I thought I'd try it out before committing it to the trans. It's been fine so far.
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It's Valvoline ATF, the worst that can happen is you may not notice any difference.
No, the fluid still has color as apposed to pitch black. I do it every 20-30 miles at the most.
Like everyone else, I'm trying to achieve too achieve 500K miles and then some.
Been using Valvoline MaxLife in my old odyssey since the OEM fluid left so much silt on the plug magnet. 100k roughly what both red and blue jug Valvoline MaxLife atf. No issues. The blue jug is lower viscosity and matches Honda ATF Z1.
I just did a drain and fill of my zf 8 yesterday, filling with maxlife. We'll see how it goes. I wanted to try the new Valvoline Restore and Protect ATF, but emailed Valvoline and they said it likely won't be available in canada for another 6-12 months.
I just did Valvoline Extended Protection + Lubegard Red. I thought Platinum was more of a "fluid transformer". The EP is spec'd for just about everything, don't see a need to add more than the Red. or were you using for aGM 6-8-10 transmisison issues?
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I've had an alert set on RA for seemingly time eternal. They still don't have it. I don't understand why AutoZone and NAPA can get it but O'Reilly and none of RA's warehouses can. I don't know if it's production capacity, demand, marketing agreements....something else?
"This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location." [sad face]
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