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Oct 17, 2006 | 09:22 AM

Diesel Man 03

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My daughter has a 03 Mercury Mountaineer with a auto transmission. This trans has no dipstick to check the trans oil level because , according to the manuel there is no need to check it.If it leaks you are suppose to take it in to the dealer and for any service or trans flush.My question is does anyone know how to check it or how to add oil to this trans?

Oct 17, 2006 | 01:41 PM

Ibarria

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jajjaaj, Man,, that is sooo crazy!
do the truck has at least a transmission oil temperature gauge?

Oct 17, 2006 | 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel Man 03

My question is does anyone know how to check it or how to add oil to this trans?

I had a Caddy Catera with the same deal. You had to remove the fill flug to check the level - while the car was running! The fluid was supposed to be right at the bottom of the fill hole, sorta like checking the level in a differential. Probably the same deal with the Merc.

Oct 17, 2006 | 03:54 PM

Ibarria

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I heard the same thing in the BMW's And Mercedes, but those, supposedly didnt have one because the fluid was supposed to last a "lifetime"

Go figure...

Oct 17, 2006 | 04:04 PM

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Yea, the Caddy specified 100K change intervals for the tranny fluid. Seems kind of extreme to me - I'd change it more often if it was a vehicle I planned to keep for a while.

Oct 17, 2006 | 04:36 PM

Ibarria

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yeah I have a 2000 Cadillac Deville, and it has a Tranny oil life monitor, the thing is, it has 90K miles, I changed the oil at 50K and the monitor is still showing me 100% tranny oil life, hard to believe huh.. so I will be changing the fluid this weekend after 40K miles. It calls for DexronIII Syn Oil. and it needs about 9 or 10

besides it has no filter :P, because the main filter is internal and is only changed when the tranny is rebuild.. bad bad bad..

greetings..

Gerardo.

Oct 17, 2006 | 04:43 PM

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that there is genuine jaguar engineering! Its the same trans in the "s" type. To check the oil, the plug on the bottom has a big plug and a smaller one inside it, remove the small one at operating temp while running. It should dribble out of there if full. To fill it, it goes in the same way. Get a squeeze bottle, and rig you up a tube that will go inside the small hole and start squeezing!

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Oct 17, 2006 | 05:06 PM

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Was looking at my sister's Chevy Malibu the other day for her. Searched for 10 minutes for that dang dip stick only to read later that "There's no need to check the fluid level. The only reason it would be low is because of a leak". Well, the car is a POS anyway, but that blew my mind.