Spoke to my local Skoda dealer......

Atf and filter change

.......=£380 all in

(180-parts +200 labour)

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Is that too much?

When I asked at what was my local main dealer they wanted over £400.  

 

From what I read it is worth just bearing in mind that if you have any issues it is pot luck if the fluid will fix them from what I read.  It is more to do with keeping a good running transmission in good working order.  The Landrover ZF specialists talk of loads of people who have the fluid done only to be looking at a gearbox refurb.

 

In my case my transmission went from useable having had a reverse slip issue once, to really nice forward but very little reverse in the course of 500 miles after the fluid change.  I guess I really wasted the £230-ish I paid an independent mechanic to do the change.  I should have taken more note of the single slipping incident I'd had in reverse and gone to an autobox specialist for some advice.  As it is I've ended up paying for two lots of oil, filters and labour (bearing in mind these boxes are renowned for reverse gear problems - I see there was another post from someone here losing reverse at only 60K miles).

well im gonna have to wait till next pay due to some major bills...

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i will let you guys know about my ATF oil change experience ...

so far my one is good as gold ..No reverse problems and No forward crunch making noises 

cool, good luck!

A lot of people forget that the transmission needs a warm up just like the engine. I think that these auto boxes with some maintenance and gentle warm up and backing off throttle just before a gear change all help prolong their life. I'm currently on 120k miles and it's as sweet as it should be. ATF and filter were changed at 75k. Next due at 150k. Hopefully she will make it to that milestone.

When you talk of backing off throttle before a gearchange - do you mean in tip mode?

My one just turned 103k and it's also fine. ..but

Not sure if the atf ever been change so need to be done

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I agree ... if you look after the equipment then it should last a lifetime

If only life were that simple

 

The place who did my box said on their cars they would do the filter and fluid every 24,000 at the most - they do a lot of London Taxis and as an experiment used to fit an auxiliary filter inline to allow easy inspection of the fluid quality - and said even at 24,000 miles it was surprising how much crud was in there.  Interestingly enough they also claimed that if you wanted an auto Audi / VW / Skoda then the ZF 5HP-19 (as fitted to our Superbs) is actually the best chance of having something reliable - apparently the newer ones have many parts made out of chocolate.

 

And let's face it - no-one who is running a new Skoda which had a supposedly sealed for life box was going to drop the fluid while the car is in warranty in case of issues.  So the result is probably every car out there on the second hand market will have a worn box to some level or other.

The 06 Superb I am just parting with had the ATF (and cambelt) changed by VAS Motion in Guildford at 70k. Still good at 124k, was planning to change again at 140k. When I can afford it I will probably probably get the new one done - a lot less miles, but it is 6 years old............

 

I spent most of my working life in the bus world, and in the 60s / 70s Leyland introduced an automated throttle dip on their epicyclic g/boxes to avoid full power changes. I have used the same principle toe-off changing 3>4>5 using TIP. Don't know i it does make any difference - but now at 124k with no problems.

Ah ok, I rarely use tiptronic as I see little point in having all the expense and arguably risk of an auto and then changing gear myself...!

The only time I use it is if I'm on a real economy run and I want to get into 5th earlier than it would otherwise do in auto mode.