Advertorial Things Not to Do If Your Car Has Auto Transmission

[Pilotman]

8 minutes ago, tifino said:

what many an Auto driver might not realise,

 

is that it is cheaper to repair/replace an abused set of brakepads,

 

than to restore a tortured Auto.

 

 

for example; my #1 DoNot; is all the following combined:

 

Never Select D if you are moving Backwards

Never Select R if you are still moving Forward

Never Select P if you are Moving.

Duh. you must know some really dumb people. 

[tifino]

2 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Duh. you must know some really dumb people. 

the very same reason the Thread is popular!

I guess I am not the only one who knows one/some...

Edited February 7, 2019 by tifino

[Pilotman]

Just now, tifino said:

the very same reason the Thread is here!

I guess I am not the only one who knows one/some...

Indeed so. 

[Vacuum]

13 minutes ago, ravip said:

I am not an expert on AT transmissions... but I am sure it has more than 1 O ring. Why not Google and let us know.

The Op should let us know about the o-ring that can ruin your tranny.

[Moti24]

7 hours ago, ThaivisaSales said:

Things Not to Do If Your Car Has Auto Transmission

Drive with your left foot resting on the brake pedal!

 

It seems the majority of Thai drivers are guilty of that one.

[tifino]

10 minutes ago, Moti24 said:

Drive with your left foot resting on the brake pedal!

 

It seems the majority of Thai drivers are guilty of that one.

or resting left foot on the brake pedal, 

all the while, slightly gunning the idle, whilst sitting at the Lights, ready for a quick getaway on the Red 

[wgdanson]

2 hours ago, tifino said:

the advert has only lightly skimmed over the top of whatever 'facts' they decided to promote!

 

The car when parked, is only Parkde when it is in Park

Thier skimming missed the general experts' idea that the situation really refers to when one is 'Stopped' i.e. at the Traffic lights/ Railway Crossings when a loon train is shovelling through... etc etc

 

 

the real problem of leaving your car languishing by the side of the road, and not in Park;

 - is that you are Totally relying upon the HandBrake to do all the work!

And if you leave it double parked in Big C or somewhere, the parking men want you to leave it in Neutral so they can push it out of the way of someone. There is a button to disable the transmission so you can remove the key, and hence lock the steering, but still have the car in neutral.

[tifino]

9 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

And if you leave it double parked in Big C or somewhere, the parking men want you to leave it in Neutral so they can push it out of the way of someone. There is a button to disable the transmission so you can remove the key, and hence lock the steering, but still have the car in neutral.

I guess that must be the now uncovered only good reason to drive a Vigo etc!

 

In my dinosaur, I can pull the key, no matter whichever left in P/R/N/D/S/L

and the Steering becomes locked

 

be a great party trick, not, at 100kmh down the expressway! 'look ma, no hands!'

[perconrad]

3 hours ago, RPM09 said:

'THE'  O- Ring ... 

 

 

Even I am a mechanical engineer, he lost me. Perhaps because I am Danish, but I do not think so.

[tifino]

21 minutes ago, perconrad said:

 

Even I am a mechanical engineer, he lost me. Perhaps because I am Danish, but I do not think so.

It sounds like a great script, to use for the next StarTrek Discovery episode!

 

In DrWho, there was the Bi-Dimensional TriLateral Stabiliser...

 

Marvin the Martian, came up with the Intergalactic Space DeModulator

 

The vid, well it was all as clear as mud, or:

funex?

svfx

funem?

svfm

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[Bill Miller]

Former AAMCO Transmission center manager here.

I too am curious about the "O ring". There are a number in mozt auto transmissions, and not usually a wear item.

Kind of a brouhaha about putting in park or neutral when stopped. Driver for fifty years and certified mechanic off and on for a good part of that. Never heard much about that until coming here. At AAMCO we generally saw 100,000 miles before rebuilds on properly maintained trannys; i.e. fluid and filter changes at specified intervals, which would get band sdjustments as part of the service.... possibly the afore mentioned "O ring".

[Vacuum]

15 hours ago, tifino said:

what many an Auto driver might not realise,

 

is that it is cheaper to repair/replace an abused set of brakepads,

 

than to restore a tortured Auto.

Yeah well, how much could that o-ring cost ? I prefer stickshifts.

[kannot]

20 hours ago, transam said:

Auto Oil/fluid coolers are present..But, if you go beyond that cooling capacity then things may go a bit pear shaped...

Im actually planning to change the oil much sooner than their 75 k as I know as temps increase the  fluid need  changing much earlier, it degrades  way faster almost double the rate Ill do it at 50k

[kannot]

15 hours ago, Pilotman said:

how thick do you have to be not to be able to drive an automatic safely and efficiently. 

ask all the Thais who seem to end up in ditches round here

[jkcjag]

I've never seen such incomplete and misleading inaccurate nonsense.

[transam]

2 hours ago, kannot said:

Im actually planning to change the oil much sooner than their 75 k as I know as temps increase the  fluid need  changing much earlier, it degrades  way faster almost double the rate Ill do it at 50k

If my memory serves me well the perfect operating trans fluid temp is 175f (80c).

Found this in miles link...With a lot of work my fun ride manual auto temp gauge stayed at 175f, street or strip...????

 

http://www.txchange.com/heatchrt.htm

Edited February 8, 2019 by transam

[kannot]

1 hour ago, jkcjag said:

I've never seen such incomplete and misleading inaccurate nonsense.

u need  to stay here  longer ????

[kannot]

39 minutes ago, transam said:

If my memory serves me well the perfect operating trans fluid temp is 175f (80c).

Found this in miles link...With a lot of work my fun ride manual auto temp gauge stayed at 175f, street or strip...????

 

http://www.txchange.com/heatchrt.htm

Yeah I read it breaks  down rapidly with even a few  c  rise much over that, its  life gets  severely limited. 79 to 93c 175f to 200f

https://www.freeautomechanic.com/transmission-temperature.html

[eddysmit]

On 2/7/2019 at 1:11 PM, wgdanson said:

You cannot leave a Vigo/Tuna parked in the D position, the ignition key will not come out.

And the M position for Manual....I can't find it.

 

 

Same thing for my Honda,it must be in 'P'.

[wgdanson]

2 hours ago, jkcjag said:

I've never seen such incomplete and misleading inaccurate nonsense.

Regarding which post please.

[fredob43]

3 hours ago, kannot said:

Im actually planning to change the oil much sooner than their 75 k as I know as temps increase the  fluid need  changing much earlier, it degrades  way faster almost double the rate Ill do it at 50k

I don't know what ride you have but Toyota suggest changing AT box oil at 40th km, same time as rear axle. Also front axle splitter box that's if you have the last two. 

[HAKAPALITA]

1 hour ago, Emmess said:

You tink too mutt!

 

So does my Wife... Why is there no B for Backwards and F for Forwards, stupid Men.

[tifino]

4 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Yeah well, how much could that o-ring cost ? I prefer stickshifts.

that point, is it's more, much more Labour Costs expensive, to internally access even the cheapest part within an Auto( and then reassemble and calibrate); than it is to pull down a brake calliper set

[Vacuum]

19 hours ago, Moti24 said:

Drive with your left foot resting on the brake pedal!

 

It seems the majority of Thai drivers are guilty of that one.

At least the motocycle (wave, dream etc) riders, but they use their right foot.

[transam]

Just thought of another "not do"...

 

Never tow an auto ride with the drive wheels in contact with the black top...