Hi everyone I'm new to this forum and was hoping to get some help. I have only worked on domestic and German cars so this is a little new to me. My gf has a 96 Corolla and had the transmission flushed at 109,000 miles. She drives 50 min to work 6 days a week (almost all highway miles). Her car now has 125,000est miles on it. I checked the transmission fluid and it did look like fruit punch 
, but it was a qrt low. Since it has excessive driving, when should her transmission be serviced again? I purchased a filter\gasket, 8qrts of transmission fluid and I just found out it has been done 16k miles ago. Do I need to go through the headache of flushing it? The reason why I am asking this already; I found some tranny fluid collecting on the transmission to the left of the tranny pan. There wasn't too much just a couple drops. I am gonna place a piece of cardboard under the car tonight to see how much it leaks. It doesn't look like the pan is leaking but I am thinking about changing the gasket any ways. Are the transmission lines known to go bad? I am hoping that the service techs didn't tighten the pan down too much.
One more question, I read somewhere in the archives that the dif oil takes 1\2 tran fluid, 1\2 motor oil. Is this true or does it just take III fluid?
A list of common problems would be great so I can prevent some problems in the future. I will be leaving to Cali and my gf won't have anyone she can trust to fix her car.
Thanks so much for the help and patience!
-Gideon
, but it was a qrt low. Since it has excessive driving, when should her transmission be serviced again? I purchased a filter\gasket, 8qrts of transmission fluid and I just found out it has been done 16k miles ago. Do I need to go through the headache of flushing it? The reason why I am asking this already; I found some tranny fluid collecting on the transmission to the left of the tranny pan. There wasn't too much just a couple drops. I am gonna place a piece of cardboard under the car tonight to see how much it leaks. It doesn't look like the pan is leaking but I am thinking about changing the gasket any ways. Are the transmission lines known to go bad? I am hoping that the service techs didn't tighten the pan down too much. One more question, I read somewhere in the archives that the dif oil takes 1\2 tran fluid, 1\2 motor oil. Is this true or does it just take III fluid?
A list of common problems would be great so I can prevent some problems in the future. I will be leaving to Cali and my gf won't have anyone she can trust to fix her car.
Thanks so much for the help and patience!
-Gideon
