BMW BMW of North America The real truth about the Ultimate driving machine you never hear Fairfax , Virginia

BUY AN AMERICAN CAR!  When did it become so okay in this great country to buy all this foriegn crap.  The same people that complain about the economy are the same people driving around in (fill in foriegn car name here). 

After 30+ years of buying American cars we just recently bought a Kia Borrego 4x4 V6 and LOVE it, 6000 miles driven in 4 months and not a lick of trouble with it and it will out tow our Expedition.

Sorry Detroit your done.

You would be damned if you did and damned if you didn't.

 Often times once a car misses it's transmission fluid change schedule it's best not to change the fluid because as the internal parts begin to wear the fluid would gradually get thicker thus providing more of a protection to the internal parts and perhaps provide a buffer for worn out parts. Changing fluid on a worn out system can leave you with a dysfunctional transmission all together.

However by not changing the transmission fluid in general you will end up with thicker fluid somewhat full of metal fragments that in time will give you problems come winter since the thick fluid can't move as fast as a fresher thiner fluid would and you will experience transmission lag.

Now if your agreement told you not to change the fluid and you did just that the best thing to do is have the transmission looked at by a third party. Perhaps the damage done to the transmission had nothing to do with a fluid change but rather an internal failure.

If the third party confirms that it was not changing the fluid that caused the transmission to fail you have a lawsuit