Yeah, well, I hope you can use the weekend to get over it...

As it says on my cars page, I've long advocated doing it along with the timing belt, when the car is taken out of service for an afternoon of preventive maintenance anyway... Is there a longer existing recommended interval at which it would be better recommended? For those of us who've found these cars worth keeping for a years and years and years and years, "never" will come due eventually...

And, don't forget, I'd already done it once at 61K mi (after what some would consider continual heavy-duty upmountain [uphill doesn't begin to cover Pikes Peak] exuberant use). For those who feel that a 70K mi ATF interval is too long, I can still say I've gone 20% further than that with my own turbo's AT/ATF without any hint of any problem, even with the use of tires (Toyo Proxes T1-S) so mushy that the AT could not keep itself optimally adjusted for crisp shifting (the best strategy for minimal wear) over 2.5 summer driving seasons.

Volvo and Aisin Warner seem to feel -- correctly IMO -- that, for most customers, the ATF can really be forgotten about for very extended intervals (so none is recommended). So I guess, by going 84K mi on my turbo's AT's ATF, I'm really still an overmaintainer at heart (one of the young techs who saw the used ATF coming out said it looked pretty clean -- maybe most customers wait until they have a problem and the ATF is already cooked, but that still doesn't mean that waiting caused the problem!); but I do try to overmaintain in moderation, and I sure don't waste money on expensive synthetic formulations where they're not indicated.

Roll on,

- Dave; '95 854T, 145K mi