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Automatic Transmission tips
Submitted By: larry in Auto Tips category
 Driving an auto transmission car is slightly different from the usual manual cars. It is very easy to drive an automatically transmitted car rather than a manual car. Since it does not require clutch shifting control and changing gears, it becomes easy for the drivers as well as for the learners. An auto transmitted car does almost every thing by itself for your comfort. However, you still need to know how to control it. To experience the actual luxury of an auto transmission car, it is important to follow some automatic transmission tips.
Some Important Automatic Transmission Tips:
- Monitor your transmission fluid level. Nothing can harm the performance of auto transmission faster than running it at a low fluid level. It is better to check the condition of transmission fluid, as it tells about the internal condition of transmission. Take a white cloth and check the color of the transmission fluid, if the color is pink it means the fluid is fine, if the color of the fluid is dark red it means that the fluid is healthy but needs servicing and if the color of the transmission fluid is brown it means it has reached the extreme condition and needs to be replaced immediately or else it can damage the internal components of the transmission. It is better to change the transmission fluid approximately at 10,000 km, before it gets dark and dirty.
- It is better to minimize shifting. Automatically transmission cars suffers maximum when it shift gears. So if you’re driving the car where it needs frequent shifting, it is very important to get your transmission checked frequently. So that you can get the fault at the initial stage and can work on it. Always make sure that you are taking the car to the service center as mentioned in the user manual.
- Always try to notice about any type of oil or fluid leakage. Since, the transmission is a closed system; there are only few places to be checked for leakage. Following are places to check for leakage.
- Check the base of the filter tube.
- Check the drain hole of the transmission.
- Try to check between the transmission and the engine.
- Check the selector shaft (the road which connects your gear shift to the transmission)
- Check the radiator, as due to leakage there is a possibility of mixing of transmission coolant with the radiator fluid.
- As transmission filter plays very important role for your smooth ride of auto transmission cars. It is very important to check your transmission filter regularly. If you don’t check and maintain the transmission filter, it will damage the internal transmission components and will lead to poor performance of the car.
- If the temperature is below 5 degree which is often during the Chicago winters, start your car and let it be ideal for 5 to 10 minutes for warming-up before you put your transmission in gear. At winters due to low temperature ATF can get solidified and will be unable to provide lubrication to the transmission system and it can harm the internal components. So to avoid such condition,
These are few helpful automatically transmission tips which should be followed for the better performance of the automatically transmission system.
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