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California98Civic 08-19-2018 09:49 PM

All they flushed was our money
 
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Do you have your own "false flush" stories?

A few months ago my wife's Forester needed service, and I told her she was due for an automatic transmission fluid flush. It had been done at about 50,000 miles, I think. Now she is at 110,000. I know she requested the service because I heard her do the order on the phone with the tech. And after she brought it back, the car was shifting better she thought and I agreed. But slightly clunky shifting soon returned and I checked the trans fluid to see. Not good. Checked the receipt for service. They had only charged for 4 quarts ATF. It is a 10 quart system. So they hadn't flushed the system and hadn't told her. I could have drained 4 quarts and replaced it. So anyway, that is what I started doing today. Here is the ATF I pulled. Replaced with four fresh quarts. I will repeat 4 quarts maybe once a week for a two or three more weeks and then just do it every other oil change or something.

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I wish I could count on the Subaru guys to do it right and honestly, but I can't. We love the car. The dealerships are bad. That is at least my fourth bad experience with two diff dealers.

Happens to you too? I don't imagine I am special.

jcp123 08-19-2018 10:32 PM

I don't have anything similar to share, but yikes. That's bad. Who knows if they even did the drain and fill.

The closest I can recall was Stevens Creek Toyota in San Jose, CA. My Ma bought a new '04 Sienna there. Somehow, the A/C was DOA, and it was back the day after. They fixed it, but it never really got cold. Given my subsequent experiences in the Echo (on which I used a manifold gauge to verify pressures) and my current Civic which both had/have weak a/c, and the fact that the Sienna in question ended up being a bit of a junker, I wonder how much I can even blame the dealer, though.

cRiPpLe_rOoStEr 08-20-2018 12:17 AM

Isn't there any trustworthy independent mechanic around?

oil pan 4 08-20-2018 02:46 AM

I have a pretty good Hyundai dealer out here.
They have flushed the transmission fluid and it went from looking kind of orange to looking like fresh red fluid out of the jug.

California98Civic 08-20-2018 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr (Post 576482)
Isn't there any trustworthy independent mechanic around?

And that is part of the problem. It was a difficulty with an independent mechanic who charged for work I later realized he didn't do that drove me to do all my own repairs starting eight years ago.

MistyLJ 10-01-2018 09:13 AM

Good service left somewhere in the early nineties...


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