Automatic gearbox top up (Unable to find a dipstick like most other auto boxes) We Need to top up the box !!!!!
We have a light come on the Dashboard normally E or D but now when hot E &D go out and in between orange lamp comes on with what looks like a Cog with a ! mark and ideas.
Thanks in advance
mike
Never worked on one, but Autodata CD tells me that there is a drain plug on the bottom of the gearbox. Follow the join in the casing around to the side from this - nearside if I read the illustration right, and on the opposite side of the join (ie to the rear), and you should find another similar-sized plug at 90 degrees to the drain plug - this is the filler plug. I've emailed you a picture. Where no dipstick is provided the usual technique is to fill to the level of the drain plug, although I make no promises for a BMW!
If you feel like completely draining and refilling the transmission, which is an item on the major service schedule anyway, it takes 3 litres of Dexron II ATF.
The message from Chris Bolus contains these words:
Though this is not true of Renault autoboxen, many of which have no dipstick.
Need to be checked via software and computer at running temp and pressure ( pain in the arse )
Hirsty's ( snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Oh. For. Fuck's. Sake.
Have ALL manufacturers gone completely mad?
This reminded me of something that one of the butchers in my local Tesco told me recently: his weighing scales went wrong a couple of weeks ago and the cure was.....a new hard drive!
Si
The message from Adrian contains these words:
I'm dreading the day when I have to buy a halfway modern car 'cos all the proper ones have worn out.
Just wait until all mainstream cars have multiplexed electrics!
:-)
Chris
Chris Whelan ( snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Is there much left that hasn't?
In message , Guy King writes
On the plus side, obtaining parts will be easier once every car on the road is a thinly disguised VW Golf.
No, probably not.
By "mainstream" I was really meaning cars of an age that they would be more likely to be owner-maintained. This really will be a problem in the future.
Chris
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