Last summer I saw a 2002 civic auto with 117k. It had a stack of maintenance papers with lots of new parts. So I bought it. Then, I found out from internet forums that the trans in these cars suck.

Anyway, I have a couple things but first...
I might have some interesting evidence to suggest that automatic trans fluid flushes are not good (as many have already said).

According to the original owners mainentance reciept the trans had a fluid change of 3qts at 92k miles. This was the first time the trans fluid had been touched.

The second time was at 98k which the reciept says 14 qts of fluid. Which tells me it must have been a full flush.

Well, at 107k the trans gave out and would not drive. So it was replaced with another factory one.

I know we cant just say for sure it was the flush and such but its interesting how the trans totally gave out 9k miles after a full flush.

Now my question...
The car now has 128k on it. The new trans has 21k on it. What can I do to help this trans last longer? Anyone with this POS trans ever find out why they fail like they do? Also, what is the FULL fluid capacity of these trans?

 

I've got 230k on my original trans and all I do is dump it and fill it. What happened to the your vehicle's trans is they waited way too long to get the fluid changed and it was probably having issues. They took it in hoping a fluid change would fix it and it didn't. Still acted up and they flushed it. Then it puked like it was going to anyway.

Keep the fluid changed and it will last. 30k or every 2 years is what I do.

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