tdiblair
Veteran Member
- Joined
- May 16, 2005
- Location
- CT Yankee
- TDI
- Passat 2005 silver Passat Sedan & 2005 Wagon Stone Henge Gray
On the verge of buying the Vag-Com to do the ATF refill once with filter change and then just a dilluting drain/ re-fill ( leave the filter on) about 1,000 miles later.
For the heck of it I called a shop looking for a guy with the $5000 ATF transfer machine. Asked if he could drop my pan - change the filter and then do the flush on the machine. He didn't have one and argued that the tranny flush machine wouldn't do me much good because I would be transfering all the old fluid thru my new filter with the machine. He felt it was wonderful to do if I wanted close to a full flush of the old fluid with new - but didn't have a way to keep my new filter from absorbing the old fluid as it was eventually circulated out on the machine. I'm assuming a new tranny filter - rated for 100K - would probably absorb that short duration of old fluid during the process and still be at 95% clean media remaining, but this guy didn't seem to agree with me.
Granted, he may have been coming up with an excuse as to why he did not have the ATF fluid transfer machine, but I'd like to here some opinions from those who know more than me.
He wanted $232.65 to do it the old fashion way. If I supplied the ATF it would be $75 less - very close to a Vag-Com VCDS Liscense with KII-USB INTERFACE - so with two Passats and a second flush 1000 miles later on each car - I know what makes more economic sense and I seem headed that way - but before I bit the VAG-Com bullet, the flush machine interested me enought to make a call - I'm just not sure about his point on his closing argument - " why pump old fluid through your new filter?"
Blair
For the heck of it I called a shop looking for a guy with the $5000 ATF transfer machine. Asked if he could drop my pan - change the filter and then do the flush on the machine. He didn't have one and argued that the tranny flush machine wouldn't do me much good because I would be transfering all the old fluid thru my new filter with the machine. He felt it was wonderful to do if I wanted close to a full flush of the old fluid with new - but didn't have a way to keep my new filter from absorbing the old fluid as it was eventually circulated out on the machine. I'm assuming a new tranny filter - rated for 100K - would probably absorb that short duration of old fluid during the process and still be at 95% clean media remaining, but this guy didn't seem to agree with me.
Granted, he may have been coming up with an excuse as to why he did not have the ATF fluid transfer machine, but I'd like to here some opinions from those who know more than me.
He wanted $232.65 to do it the old fashion way. If I supplied the ATF it would be $75 less - very close to a Vag-Com VCDS Liscense with KII-USB INTERFACE - so with two Passats and a second flush 1000 miles later on each car - I know what makes more economic sense and I seem headed that way - but before I bit the VAG-Com bullet, the flush machine interested me enought to make a call - I'm just not sure about his point on his closing argument - " why pump old fluid through your new filter?"
Blair