maktas
Veteran Member
I Want to see what kind of tranny failure numbers are out there....
Not failed yet, touch wood, 254,000 km.Please post your not failed mileage
I used OEM Pentosin in both our transmissions (40K change intervals) and both failed prematurely.I have flushed my transmission, but is anyone starting to notice that there are folks, as in the 2 posts above, who never touch their transmission and it lasts forever? Conversely, there are folks who have flushed, such as Dlai, and have had premature failures. Interesting. I would be curious to know if any of those premature failures involved the use of BG transmission fluid, which is not approved, and widely used by the dealerships in Canada to keep costs down. Problem is, they don't disclose this to the customer unless asked. My buddy used it and his transmission blew about 1.5 years later. I would imagine that they are using it in the US too.
The work was done by Harv at Wild Rose and he used Pentosin. As Harv and Oilhammer will tell you, I do everything by the book. All work on my car since I've owned it was done by Harv, Oldpoopie, or Oilhammer. Go figure, luck of the VW draw I guess...I have flushed my transmission, but is anyone starting to notice that there are folks, as in the 2 posts above, who never touch their transmission and it lasts forever? Conversely, there are folks who have flushed, such as Dlai, and have had premature failures. Interesting. I would be curious to know if any of those premature failures involved the use of BG transmission fluid, which is not approved, and widely used by the dealerships in Canada to keep costs down. Problem is, they don't disclose this to the customer unless asked. My buddy used it and his transmission blew about 1.5 years later. I would imagine that they are using it in the US too.
I voted in the poll as a failure with 200K + (I was at 230,000 when I swapped to 5 Sp. Manual), but I cannot say it was a true transmission "failure". The TC was slipping and threw a code, but I decided to to BM delete, tranny change, and axle replacement at that time. I chalk it up to MY bad - I did not do any fluid checks or changes on my transmission ... DOH!I Want to see what kind of tranny failure numbers are out there....