Some of you may laugh others begin typing a flame response but...
my wife has been using her mom's 07 Accent, the mom is 90 and hasn't been incapable of using it for a while now.
I did an oil change (without paying much attention) I've never seen this type of car before. Oddly the oil level seemed outrageously over full and still dirty ;)
Then upon driving it the automatic transmission was all wacky, not engaging at idle, then it abruptly chunking into gear...
So I check the transmission fluid level and it's not on the stick.
Research here let me know SP-III is what I'd need.
(some of you see where this is going)
Then while surfing a youtube vid regarding this model's transmission it hit me in the face, I'd drained the automatic transmission fluid!
Went to the Kia dealer got 3 quarts dumped it in there, drained the overfilled 5.5 quarts of old and new oil rectifying my mistake, which brings me to the reason for this post.
This 2007 car only has 24,300 miles on it and I mistook the automatic transmission fluid for outrageously dirty engine oil! I swear this stuff looks like it's fulla carbon black n burnt up.
My question: is it normal for the trans-fluid to have such a degraded appearance in only 25,000 miles?
my wife has been using her mom's 07 Accent, the mom is 90 and hasn't been incapable of using it for a while now.
I did an oil change (without paying much attention) I've never seen this type of car before. Oddly the oil level seemed outrageously over full and still dirty ;)
Then upon driving it the automatic transmission was all wacky, not engaging at idle, then it abruptly chunking into gear...
So I check the transmission fluid level and it's not on the stick.
Research here let me know SP-III is what I'd need.
(some of you see where this is going)
Then while surfing a youtube vid regarding this model's transmission it hit me in the face, I'd drained the automatic transmission fluid!
Went to the Kia dealer got 3 quarts dumped it in there, drained the overfilled 5.5 quarts of old and new oil rectifying my mistake, which brings me to the reason for this post.
This 2007 car only has 24,300 miles on it and I mistook the automatic transmission fluid for outrageously dirty engine oil! I swear this stuff looks like it's fulla carbon black n burnt up.
My question: is it normal for the trans-fluid to have such a degraded appearance in only 25,000 miles?