Getting to know your Transmission
Whether you are driving an automatic transmission or a manual (standard) transmission, also known as stick, your transmission or as some call it, tranny needs regular service and maintenance. Next to your engine, your tranny is the hardest working piece of machinery in your car. Just imagine all that power that your engine produces, and if it were simply directly connected to your wheels, it’d be like riding a bike that’s only got one gear, it wouldn’t get you very far. If you can picture that scenario, then you know exactly what a transmission does. Just like you can change gears on your bike to make it easier when you are getting going or going up a hill, a car does the same thing. That’s a lot of work right? In fact, if you were to look inside a transmission it wouldn’t look like a bicycle gear at all, in fact it has hundreds of parts and gears to it. These gears need a good oil lubricating everything and keeping it cool and viscous. That is why if you haven’t checked your transmission oil level recently, you should. And if you haven’t changed it, or it’s filter in a long time, it’s best you look into that too. It’s best that you change the oil every couple of years or 50,000 km, and that can vary on the type of driving that you do. Some manufacturers will tell you otherwise, but if you want to really get the most of your transmission, the trust us. In some cars it can be just as easy to do the filter at the same time, so you can do that too. The oil that you use will have a large impact, that is why you should always use a quality product from Eneos or Liqui-Moly in your transmission, just as you would in your engine. Failing to comply by these suggestions, you car will likely suffer transmission failure around 2-300,000 km and require a 3-5000 dollar rebuild. See how spending a few hundred bucks over a lot of years can be well worth it? This is the case with all proactive care for you car. Let us be your proactive mechanics in London and we will get you the most out of your car. In the long run preventing any thousand plus dollar repairs! As always, drive safe!