| In order to maintain you car in a good shape, to | | | | brown or it has a burnt smell should be changed at |
| offer you the safety as well the performances it | | | | once. Before buying transmission fluid, check with |
| was designed for in the first place, taking care of | | | | your car's owner's manual to se the exact type the |
| your vehicle's transmission is a vital thing you should | | | | manufacturer recommends. Never mix two different |
| take care of. Modern cars have very complex drive | | | | types of fluid of fluids coming from different |
| trains, and the transmission being one of the most | | | | manufacturers. The recommended period to replace |
| important elements of it, repairing it because of the | | | | it is every 2 years or every 24,000 miles, which ever |
| in-proper use can be very costly. The most serious | | | | condition occurs first. When you want to put your |
| operations on a car's drive train can only be executed | | | | car in reverse, come to a complete stop first. |
| in specialized shops, but the casual maintenance | | | | Changing from drive to reverse while the vehicle is |
| operations you can make them yourself. | | | | still moving will harm your transmission. In order to |
| The biggest enemy of the vehicle's transmission is | | | | protect vital transmission elements, put the cark into |
| heat. There are many causes for the heating of the | | | | park after you have pressed the brake pedal and pull |
| transmission's elements, and many are related to | | | | the emergency brake. By doing this, less stress is |
| operating your car under difficult conditions. Racing | | | | applied to the drive train. Always change gears from |
| with your vehicle, towing a load, or repeatedly | | | | park to drive only when your engine is at idle. |
| putting it in drive and reverse for exiting heavy snow | | | | When towing a very heavy load or when you are |
| or mud can contribute to the overheating of its | | | | climbing abrupt terrain, be sure to disengage the |
| ensembles. | | | | overdrive feature, if your car is equipped with such a |
| If you often are forced to operate your car under | | | | option, as it will prevent the car from repeatedly |
| these circumstances, you can benefit greatly from | | | | changing gears from and to overdrive. Overdrive is |
| adding additional cooling to your transmission. Such a | | | | the highest gear in the transmission and it used to |
| cooler will be mounted on the radiator and it will cool | | | | allow that vehicle to run at highway cruising speeds |
| the transmission fluid. Because many SUV owners use | | | | with a reduced revs, in order to mainly save fuel and |
| them to tow heavy vehicles, they came equipped | | | | reduce noise. If the automatic gear in your car has a |
| from the factory with such auxiliary transmission | | | | 4-speed transmission with overdrive, the overdrive |
| coolers. | | | | refers to the 4th gear. The same is with cars with |
| In the following paragraph you will find a series of | | | | 5-gear automated transmission with overdrive. There |
| tips about properly maintaining your car's transmission. | | | | is the possibility to have a smaller car, with a 4 or 5 |
| The most important aspect is to have your | | | | way automated transmission, but without the |
| transmission fluid checked on a regular basis. Also | | | | overdrive function. |
| check for its color. It should be red. If it had turned | | | | |