Originally Posted By: walterjay
I am ready to do a drain and refill of the cvt tranny fluid on my 2013 Nissan Rogue. I am trying to decide between Castrol and Valvoline. Which is the preferred fluid on this forum? I want to stay away from $20.00 a quart Nissan overpriced fluid.
Check your manual, but yours should recommend Nissan NS-2 CVT fluid. The green stuff. I hear you on the ~$20/qt the dealer wants. Mine does too.
Check eBay. I'm seeing 6qts of genuine Nissan NS-2 for ~$65 shipped. For what ever reason, the newer NS-3 can be had a bit cheaper on eBay. That's how I get mine, but you'll need to stick with NS-2 since there's no 'backwards compatibility' that I'm aware of.
I have no issue what so ever with using the appropriate Valvoline, Castrol, etc.. product, it's just that my Nissan van has lots of warranty left on it, so to make it simpler, I'll be sticking with the blue NS-3 juice until the warranty ends.