welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to review the process that i go through
on my 2015 chevy cruze and what i'm doing today is i'm going to change the transmission fluid
and for a lot of you that has never done this before the biggest obstacle
most do-it-yourselfers run into is well the lack of confidence on thinking they can do a job
that frankly you're going to pay a lot of money for but this is such a simple procedure so it's
just really a drain and fill but i do it in a way that's very easy and i'm going to take you through
the process i'm going to show you what i'm using you decide what you want to use on your own but
this is the way that i do it and i'll just tell you i've been driving vehicles for over 40 years
and i've never had a transmission failure in my life so what i do is every 50 000 kilometers or
30 000 miles i change the transmission fluid and for a lot of people they're going to say
well you don't need to do that just look on your manual because some of them say
filled for life you don't have to do anything well the fill for life well i know too many people that
just didn't have too good experiences about the fill for life idea so what i'm going to do is i'm
going to take you to the process and i'm going to show you what transmission fluid looks like after
30 000 miles so let's go over to the bench here i'm going to show you what
i would say most do-it-yourselfers all you need this is all you need and you can save
yourself enough money to actually buy one of these contraptions that i'm going to show you and save
yourself a lot of money in the future with no transmission repairs so today is just strictly
a drain and fill i'm not changing the filter and let's get to it right now so let's start
off right here here is the drain plug it's just sitting on the bottom of the
transmission and all you need is one of these just 11 millimeter wrench so i'll take you over to the
manual here and this is just a really easy manual jeep that you can buy and shows you
the bottom of the vehicle and it shows you where that plug is and if we go over to the next page
it'll show you exactly right there and i'll show you that i highlighted it with a yellow marker and
that's just if you want to be able to check the fluid level now a lot of people aren't going to
do the transmission fluid like i am and they may make a mess or you might spill something and you
might not know how much you're putting back in but i always put back in exactly what i take out
and this is the unit i use here now i bought this many years ago i don't know how much they are now
but these are invaluable and all i do is i put the fluid in here and you just pump it up like a weed
sprayer kind of a thing and it pushes the fluid out for you and of course i'm using factory fluid
and you can use generic you can use anything you want it's up to you but i only use factory fluid
always so that's just all you really need right there so let's go over to the vehicle
and uh i've drained the fluid out now i got the fluid in the drain pan and i'm
going to show you what's next so as you can see i have two identical containers they both hold
almost five liters each and this is the old transmission fluid this is
for the new transmission fluid so i want you just to take a look and see
look at that 50
000. kilometers
so what i'm going to do is fill it up right there now there's a little bit left so as you can see
the whole idea of this process is you match the identical amount in your second container so
let me take a look and see if i can fit it all in there i don't know if i'll be able to
almost almost so now you can see that all you have to do is fill the other container right up to here
and then put it in your transmission so we'll get on to that next
well here we are in front of the car i've got the pressure tank all pressurized there is the the cap
that goes on the top of your transmission and if you follow the hose all the way down you can
see that's where it is right there and nobody could miss it it's so easy to find that spot
so all we got to do now is turn on the pressure tank and let it fill it up so let's do that next
okay it's as easy as just turn on the valve there you go and when it gets empty well you're pretty
much done okay so here we are on the driver's side here i'm just going to take a peek in
here with you and show you i colored that bolt yellow and if you can see that it's right there
and that's where you would check your fluid level and the instructions are quite clear you open it
up no fluid coming out it's too low and if there's too much fluid coming out just let it drain out
well thanks for joining me here today i realize this is just a quick overview but the best thing
to do is get yourself one of the manuals go through it understand everything what you're
doing and you know what this is a very simple job from the time i start until the time i finish is
like including the taking the tire off jacking it up put a jack stand underneath like a half an hour
that's it tops i mean i've done this so many times that you know it's it's not difficult and i would
say you're probably going to save yourself a lot of money in the long term for doing this yourself
you know it was done right you tighten everything up with the proper torque specs and you know like
i said in the beginning a lot of times it's just it's just having the confidence to actually do it
that is separates a lot of do-it-yourselfers and actually trying to accomplish something like this
in this particular safe uh situation this is a very easy easy easy maintenance thing that you
can do save you a lot of money and you know what you're going to spend more time just driving to
a shop just to get it looked at and serviced you're probably got two hours tied into it
and you know that's time out of your day as well so you got to include that as well as
you know time and time is money so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this
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