Originally Posted By: cronk
I once was in Autozone, trying to buy a transmission filter and pan gasket kit. The car was a 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, the first year that model went to front wheel drive.
The guy behind the counter tried to give me a filter kit for a 200r4 which is a rear wheel drive transmission.
When I told him that was the wrong filter, he tried telling me someone must have changed the transmission, because "this is what they came with".
I can't even begin to follow that logic, your car is front wheel drive, but came with a rwd transmission and someone must have changed it and it in a fwd transmission.
Ended up having to look it up as a 91 or 92 to finally find the correct filter kit.
To be fair, the parts book probably did list the 200R4 as the correct filter, as they DID make both a FWD and RWD "Cutlass Supreme" in 1988.
"As the new front-wheel drive Cutlass Supreme model was being launched in 1988, the rear-drive G-special coupe remained in production for one final model year as the Cutlass Supreme Classic."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile...78.E2.80.931988
I can't defend the "someone must have changed it" comment though!