Do you need to flush?

My Toyota dealer charges $169.45 + tax for transmission serice. I quote "Using state-of-the-art machine, one of our technicians ill clean and flush harmful deposits from your car's transmission. Thos servie cleans the transmission filter, screens, valve body and torque converter while removing the contaminated fluid and replacing it with new transmission fluid."

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I go with the "if it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown flush it down" rule. Works for me.

Jeff

Gee, the better learn to spell better. Words like will, this, sevie are not that hard to spell and can be caught with a spell checker. If the dealer can't even put up posters without misspellings, why would anyone trust them to work on their cars?

Jeff

What is the opinion of Ray O on this subject?

Toyota does not recommend engine or transmission flushes in their maintenance schedules.

IMO, engine flushes are a waste of money. The only time I might consider one is if my engine were sludged from lack of maintenance and I was willing to gamble the cost of an engine flush as a last-ditch effort to try to avoid replacing the engine, and knowing that the flush could also finish the engine off.

Transmission flushes might be more helpful if they were performed at the automaker's recommended interval for transmission fluid change, but if the vehicle is past the recommended interval, then transmission flushes are more likely to do more damage than good. That said, Toyota's recommendation is for a simple drain and refill, which is what I do for my personal vehicles. I have never had a transmission problem in any of my vehicles.

But the dealers always recommend them (well most of them). Doesn't Toyota have some sort of control over the dealers so they don't do unnecessary services?

No, dealers are independent businessmen and set their own prices and sales and service practices.