Porschemaniac
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Hello all,
Well, after 3 years of fighting one another, the love affair with my dear old 944 is over!
Having spent several weeks performing corrective surgery on previous owners 'repairs' to the rear quater, I finally realised that, despite every thing that I had done, I was still only scratching the surface in terms of what the car needed. It really was becoming a little bit of a lost cause!
Mind you, the blues didn't last long - picked up a beautiful X300 4.0L Jag to get me over it - it's a honey (complete contrast to the Porker - bit like driving a huge bed!). And despite it's engine size, I'm averaging about 18 MPG, which really isn't bad around town.
After a month of ownership, I'm now digging in to the maintenance, which, to be fair, really is just regular servicing items.
One thing on my list is to change the Auto Trans Fluid and filter. The kit's already been ordered and I intend (weather permitting) to set about it this weekend. This is my first experience of servicing an auto box and it has prompted a question; are you best to change the Auto Trans fluid with it hot, or cold?
The Jaguar manual seems to indicate cold, whereas a magazine write-up that I read seems to indicate hot! It would make more sense to me to do it cold as I should think quite a bit drains out of the Torque Converter overnight (certainly seems to be a lot more fluid in the sump in the morning). Additionally, with the old and new fluid at roughly the same ambient temperature, I would have thought there was a better chance of more accurately matching the volumes.
Must confess that it's got me a little foxed - so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Ian.
Well, after 3 years of fighting one another, the love affair with my dear old 944 is over!
Having spent several weeks performing corrective surgery on previous owners 'repairs' to the rear quater, I finally realised that, despite every thing that I had done, I was still only scratching the surface in terms of what the car needed. It really was becoming a little bit of a lost cause!
Mind you, the blues didn't last long - picked up a beautiful X300 4.0L Jag to get me over it - it's a honey (complete contrast to the Porker - bit like driving a huge bed!). And despite it's engine size, I'm averaging about 18 MPG, which really isn't bad around town.
After a month of ownership, I'm now digging in to the maintenance, which, to be fair, really is just regular servicing items.
One thing on my list is to change the Auto Trans Fluid and filter. The kit's already been ordered and I intend (weather permitting) to set about it this weekend. This is my first experience of servicing an auto box and it has prompted a question; are you best to change the Auto Trans fluid with it hot, or cold?
The Jaguar manual seems to indicate cold, whereas a magazine write-up that I read seems to indicate hot! It would make more sense to me to do it cold as I should think quite a bit drains out of the Torque Converter overnight (certainly seems to be a lot more fluid in the sump in the morning). Additionally, with the old and new fluid at roughly the same ambient temperature, I would have thought there was a better chance of more accurately matching the volumes.
Must confess that it's got me a little foxed - so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Ian.
