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hello everybody
I’ve got a 2002 ford focus 1.6 petrol engine, with an automatic gearbox ( 4-Speed Automatic Transaxle – 4F27E, made by Mazda I think). was bought from romania. the car is having about 100.000km and I had thinking I should change the transmision fluid. the service manual doesn’t recomend changing the transmision fluid saying is lifetime fluid. In romania I couldn’t find technicians that are not specialized in automatic gearboxes, and the guys from workshops told me what is on service manual. the oil change would cost me about 250$ with ford oil and original filter+gasket.
now the quistion is, should I change it? and if I need to change it can I use some other type of fluid ? the ford transmission fluid is kind of expensive at 20$/liter and I need about 8 liters.
another think that I saw, the fluid on the dipstick is have bubles and I saw in one of the videos that blubles on that fluid are not good.thank you
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Fords can be very particular about their transmission fluids, and having owned a few myself, the 2000+ should really only have mercon V in them, or they will shutter your teeth out on shifts!
As for transmission fluid changes; if you aren’t having a problem with it, then there may be no reason to change it. I have seen more than my share of flushes wipe out a transmission.
As for the bubbles on your dipstick, you may want to look for some type of anti-foaming additive.Usually bubbles on the dipstick is air mixing with the fluid causing aeration.
You can also have bubbles from hard acceleration. If the fluid looks clean
you may want to leave it.
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