Charlie207
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A friend offered to undercoat my GF's & my cars yesterday at his home shop, so we spent the day at their house drinking, and being merry.
I asked him last minute if he could help me change my ATF filter and do a fluid change, so that's also up-to-date. Easy to get the pan off with me prying down on the exhaust with a long pry-bar while he pulled the pan out.
The fluid was old, but not burned up, and the magnet has zero chunks. He said it all looked really good overall. We drained the fluid w/an evacuator, refilled, and drove on the highway twice to cycle 4 gallons of fresh ATF (Valvoline maxLife synthetic) through the valvebody, coolers, and torque converter. Although not a true flush, the fluid now looks fresh and clean.
Her car is still amazingly clean underneath, and a unibody (VW Tiguan) so it was easy/quick to spray. We just had to undo a few plastic underbody covers, and zip-zap, done.
Mine was a little more involved. And took 2x as long. I sprayed the heck out of the undercarriage, but the frame coating has been sloughing off since I bought the truck, so he had to alternate blasting the metal surfaces with compressed air, then undercoating, then going back over everything as the metal soaked the Fluid Film dry.
$300 for both cars (and my ATF service) so I'm happy. Best part was he spent over an hour removing the 3M adhesive tape, and buffing out the front of my hood where the old bug-guard has scratched the bejesus out of the clear coat, for free.
I asked him last minute if he could help me change my ATF filter and do a fluid change, so that's also up-to-date. Easy to get the pan off with me prying down on the exhaust with a long pry-bar while he pulled the pan out.
The fluid was old, but not burned up, and the magnet has zero chunks. He said it all looked really good overall. We drained the fluid w/an evacuator, refilled, and drove on the highway twice to cycle 4 gallons of fresh ATF (Valvoline maxLife synthetic) through the valvebody, coolers, and torque converter. Although not a true flush, the fluid now looks fresh and clean.
Her car is still amazingly clean underneath, and a unibody (VW Tiguan) so it was easy/quick to spray. We just had to undo a few plastic underbody covers, and zip-zap, done.
Mine was a little more involved. And took 2x as long. I sprayed the heck out of the undercarriage, but the frame coating has been sloughing off since I bought the truck, so he had to alternate blasting the metal surfaces with compressed air, then undercoating, then going back over everything as the metal soaked the Fluid Film dry.
$300 for both cars (and my ATF service) so I'm happy. Best part was he spent over an hour removing the 3M adhesive tape, and buffing out the front of my hood where the old bug-guard has scratched the bejesus out of the clear coat, for free.
