Here's a copy of the Blackstone Labs report on my factory fill of Toyota T-IV ATF with 25,000 miles on it (and 25,000 miles on the car). Both car and oil are 3.5 years old.
I ordered a TAN but didn't order a TBN since a couple people wrote in a thread that only a TAN is necessary for the ATF, but if anyone thinks I should get a TBN too, I think there's still time for me to email Blackstone and request one. I think they don't throw away the samples right away.
The ATF that I sent them is 99 percent Toyota T-IV and 1 percent Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF, since two days before I took the ATF sample for Blackstone, I had poured in 1 ounce of Mobil 1 ATF (not 1 quart, but one ounce). I had thought I was a tad low, but I probably wasn't (I just hadn't checked the ATF when it was hot enough, like after a 30-mile highway run).
Just like motor oil samples, I think you're suppose to take the ATF sample mid-stream after it starts pouring out of the pan, but I hastily took the sample closer to the start than the middle of the stream. Don't know if that made a difference here.
The transmission in this 2006 4-cylinder Camry LE is either the Aisin U250E or the U151E. I think it's the U250E. Total ATF capacity is probably around 7.x quarts for the U250E whereas it's 9.3 quarts for the U151E. The drain and refill amount for both the U250E and U151E is 3.7 quarts.
After I took the Toyota T-IV ATF sample for Blackstone, I did a drain and refill, adding about 4 quarts of Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF. So right now I have about a 50/50 mix of T-IV and Mobil 1 in the car, but the numbers in the Blackstone sample below are from an ATF fluid that is 99 percent Toyota T-IV and just 1 percent Mobil 1, so almost all T-IV.
Probably 85 percent or more of my driving the past 3.5 years has been city driving, and about 15 percent has been highway (maybe even 10 percent highway). Always gentle driving on the streets of Columbia, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri.
Blackstone Labs says, "Our universal averages show typical wear from a Toyota automatic transmission after an oil run of ~20,000 miles" (so 5 thousand miles less than my 25,000-mile run of the factory fill).
From Blackstone Labs:
Sample date: July 2, 2009.
Miles on ATF oil: 25,000
Miles on car: 25,000
[First number = my sample's results] , [Second number = Universal Averages from a Toyota automatic transmission]
Aluminum 28 , 16
Chromium, 1 , 0
Iron 73 , 38
Copper 17 , 57
Lead 30 , 14
Tin 5 , 2
Molybdenum 0 , 1
Nickel 4 , 0
Manganese 3 , 1
Silver 0 , 0
Titanium 0 , 0
Potassium 0 , 1
Boron 32 , 57
Silicon 27 , 19
Sodium 8 , 4
Calcium 117 , 131
Magnesium 1 , 17
Phosphorus 228 , 297
Zinc 16 , 56
Barium 17 , 3
MY RESULTS // VALUES SHOULD BE
SUS Viscosity @ 210* F = 46.7 // 43 - 51
cSt Viscosity @ 100* C = 6.26 // 5.1 - 7.9
Flashpoint in *F = 360 // > 335
Fuel % = --
Antifreeze % = --
Water % = 0.0 // < 0.1
Insolubles % = 0.0 // < 0.1
TBN =
TAN = 1.9
I ordered a TAN but didn't order a TBN since a couple people wrote in a thread that only a TAN is necessary for the ATF, but if anyone thinks I should get a TBN too, I think there's still time for me to email Blackstone and request one. I think they don't throw away the samples right away.
The ATF that I sent them is 99 percent Toyota T-IV and 1 percent Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF, since two days before I took the ATF sample for Blackstone, I had poured in 1 ounce of Mobil 1 ATF (not 1 quart, but one ounce). I had thought I was a tad low, but I probably wasn't (I just hadn't checked the ATF when it was hot enough, like after a 30-mile highway run).
Just like motor oil samples, I think you're suppose to take the ATF sample mid-stream after it starts pouring out of the pan, but I hastily took the sample closer to the start than the middle of the stream. Don't know if that made a difference here.
The transmission in this 2006 4-cylinder Camry LE is either the Aisin U250E or the U151E. I think it's the U250E. Total ATF capacity is probably around 7.x quarts for the U250E whereas it's 9.3 quarts for the U151E. The drain and refill amount for both the U250E and U151E is 3.7 quarts.
After I took the Toyota T-IV ATF sample for Blackstone, I did a drain and refill, adding about 4 quarts of Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF. So right now I have about a 50/50 mix of T-IV and Mobil 1 in the car, but the numbers in the Blackstone sample below are from an ATF fluid that is 99 percent Toyota T-IV and just 1 percent Mobil 1, so almost all T-IV.
Probably 85 percent or more of my driving the past 3.5 years has been city driving, and about 15 percent has been highway (maybe even 10 percent highway). Always gentle driving on the streets of Columbia, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri.
Blackstone Labs says, "Our universal averages show typical wear from a Toyota automatic transmission after an oil run of ~20,000 miles" (so 5 thousand miles less than my 25,000-mile run of the factory fill).
From Blackstone Labs:
Sample date: July 2, 2009.
Miles on ATF oil: 25,000
Miles on car: 25,000
[First number = my sample's results] , [Second number = Universal Averages from a Toyota automatic transmission]
Aluminum 28 , 16
Chromium, 1 , 0
Iron 73 , 38
Copper 17 , 57
Lead 30 , 14
Tin 5 , 2
Molybdenum 0 , 1
Nickel 4 , 0
Manganese 3 , 1
Silver 0 , 0
Titanium 0 , 0
Potassium 0 , 1
Boron 32 , 57
Silicon 27 , 19
Sodium 8 , 4
Calcium 117 , 131
Magnesium 1 , 17
Phosphorus 228 , 297
Zinc 16 , 56
Barium 17 , 3
MY RESULTS // VALUES SHOULD BE
SUS Viscosity @ 210* F = 46.7 // 43 - 51
cSt Viscosity @ 100* C = 6.26 // 5.1 - 7.9
Flashpoint in *F = 360 // > 335
Fuel % = --
Antifreeze % = --
Water % = 0.0 // < 0.1
Insolubles % = 0.0 // < 0.1
TBN =
TAN = 1.9
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