Finally finished my fluid change!!!

[mezonesxbox]

This morning i received my new filter-gasket and fliud and changed everything.

My car is a NB 2000 2.0 with 70,000 miles, although i think an earlier change could have helped. When i drained the fluid it was dark black and very dirty, no debris thankfully, but i did notice that the pan magnet had collected a lot of stuff. Here are some pics:

This is a very clean pan, in which i gave it a lot of attention. (hope i didnt leave soap in it LOL!)



Here is the old VS New filter, when i cleaned the inside of the old filter blobs of grease or oil like substance came out. This is by no means re-usable like some say. The filter inside which is made out of paper is very clogged by "chunks" or "Jellow" of old fluid.


Then finally i found out that the germans have a sense of humor, if you look carefully you will see that they have the text: "LOL" embeded in the valve body.


I hope this is not your fluid.. How can VW say its "LIFE-TIME"?? this fluid starts yellow and very bright. After 70,000 it is black and very dirty. Yuck!!


After finishing this process i now feel very relieved and now that i think of it. Its not too bad

If you try it, take your time, be careful and follow step by step. Also Vag-com is good to have handy you can buy a cable on Ebay for 30.00 and you get a demo which lets you check the temp.

[Breez]

great pictures showing us such detail... interesting.

[kcfoxie]

THANK YOU! My goodness THANK YOU! This proves why you must change your transmission fluid! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[kcfoxie]

Was it on the old forum? The pic with the shardes on the magnet?

[Breez]

lol

[GatorBeetle]

Originally Posted by kcfoxie

Was it on the old forum? The pic with the shardes on the magnet?

I remember that picture...frightening to say the least...I need to do this. How much did it cost? How much time?

[Kestas]

I was the one that asked if the filter may be reusable as filters on other transmissions that only have a metal mesh screen. Since I changed the fluid in my car, I find the filter is a media filter and not reusable. However, the gasket is reusable.

[Kestas]

For reference, this is what I paid from germanautoparts.com:
$14.55 filter
$9.92 gasket
The two were sold separately.

[Kestas]

Yes, it did.

[oneighturbo]

nice work. im on 48k and plan on doing it soon..

[sweetpea4e]

Where did you find the steps to change the fluid? and were you haveing tranny issues before changing the fluid?

[Kestas]

I think this is the tutorial you're looking for:

"How-To" Change Auto Transmission Fluid

This should be done every 40K to 60K or so.