Video: Automatic Transmission Service Tip

FREMONT — Host, Sarah Rutan: Do you drive an automatic vehicle? If so, you’ll want to know about a maintenance tip that will help extend its lifespan. Today we’re in Fremont with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Eduardo Porta of Fremont Foreign Auto to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Eduardo Porta: We’re here today to talk about automatic transmissions. That will be the service. Keep in mind to service the automatic transmissions on a daily basis. That means most of the cars in between thirty to forty thousand miles. Check your records. If you’ve never done one, it’s important to do because the transmission, it will not last that long.

Average transmissions, they last over two hundred and fifty thousand miles is the ones the services’ been done. Okay, go back to your records, look at what kind of car you own, and then make sure you do those services. This is very important.

Mercedes, BMWs, they don’t advertise out there to do the transmission service – which is not true because the transmission will not last the life of the car. It will last the life of the fluid if you take care and you replace them. Keep that in mind.

Stick shift transmission, much easier, much cheaper. Do every thirty thousand miles, you’re going to have a transmission for a long time.

Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local top-rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.org.