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‘We’re Supposed To Go 100,000 Miles’: Mechanic Checks New Transmission Fluid. Then He Compares It To Fluid After 35,000 Miles

An independent auto shop owner took to Facebook, holding plastic bottles up to the camera in order to call out something he says is killing American transmissions: manufacturer service intervals that let fluid get filthy before anybody touches it.

In one of the bottles, the fluid is bright cherry red. In the other, drained from a customer’s car at 35,000 miles, the fluid has the color of motor oil dredged from a parking lot puddle.

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