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RustyBucket »
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Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:40 am
Well, in response to your questions, the only answer I have is "Probably not since 2005", since there is no record of it in the maintenance receipts.
The car has 268,000KM on it (about 166,000 miles). It's been on the flat prairies since at least '96, so going up "hills" bigger than 30 or 40 feet has probably been an uncommon thing 14 or so years, which would help transmission life. The climate, which varies beween +35C in the summer and -35c in the winter doesn't help, however.
I've done reading on here about transmission lifespan, so I am defintiely putting aside a "transmission contingency fund". I got a transmission cooler on the weekend, so I'll check out the mounts when I'm putting that in and replacing the external trans. filter.
I've also read that this could also be caused by problems with the parking brake.