local BMW independent says DO NOT CHANGE ATF!!!
these are master techs, trained by bmw, that opened their own shop, drive their own bimmers (old school 3 series that are bad @ss).
Say that bmw builds and fills the ATs in a clean room, complete with white body suits and gloves. the ATs are extremely sensitive to any foreign matter. they will swap the fluid if you make them, but they prefer not to. have also told me that they have not had good results with fluid swaps, with failures 40,000 miles later, more than once. So they admit-- we touch it, and 2 years later it dies. driven nicely, they'll say that a e36 AT can make over 200k miles.
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these are master techs, trained by bmw, that opened their own shop, drive their own bimmers (old school 3 series that are bad @ss).
Say that bmw builds and fills the ATs in a clean room, complete with white body suits and gloves. the ATs are extremely sensitive to any foreign matter. they will swap the fluid if you make them, but they prefer not to. have also told me that they have not had good results with fluid swaps, with failures 40,000 miles later, more than once. So they admit-- we touch it, and 2 years later it dies. driven nicely, they'll say that a e36 AT can make over 200k miles.
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