Understanding the modern auto transmission

[displacedtexan]

What are you driving and what are you towing? Is this a totally stock motor?

2012 F250... Trucks, cars, tractors, lumber, steel, campers, horses... All kinds of things.

Hot tuning only on this one. I'm getting soft in my old age.

 

[displacedtexan]

Uh huh, sure ya are, smh.


You’re the greatest ever man!

Come take a look at the odometer.

Wanna bet?

 

[StuckInTheEast]

Im not an engineer...but I see the patterns in failures of what engineers design every day.
Most people have absolutely no idea the nonsense going on in modern transmissions.
Engineering has run amuck on most of them in my opinion.
I mean, we are to weak, dumb, lazy, entitled to pull a lever or turn a key(the design of which rarely failed)anymore so we gotta push a button or turn a little knob to start a vehicle or put it in gear now.
The biggest pattern failure across the board ive noticed with modern transmissions has been torque converter clutch chatter and failure since they've moved to all these synthetic low viscosity fluids and running them hotter..By across the board I mean damn near every manufacturer. There used to be a handful of transmissions that it was common with, now its a rarity to a model Ive not seen that issue on.
Best advice I can give is keep fresh, oem fluid in them. Change it every 30-50k. The only truth to "lifetime" transmission fluid is that the lifetime of your transmission will be significantly shorter if you DONT change the fluid regularly

 

[svivian]

I don’t understand the cost cutting nature of these decisions. Anyone willing to buy a $75k+ truck would gladly pay another $1500 for something that would make their transmission more reliable!

Have there been many reported failures?

 

[fatbacks]

Sorry about your trouble. If you need it done right, there is none better than Inglewood Transmission in Long Beach, CA.

Thanks! I also learned that it is about $3,000 to get a transmission shipped to and from the lower 48 from Alaska.