4 Ways to Destroy Your Transmission

The transmission system is one of your vehicle’s most complex and crucial systems and it only takes one of these common bad habits to destroy the hardiest of automatic transmission in the long run. Let’s take a closer look at some of the habits.

4 Ways to Destroy Your Transmission:

Overheating Your Car

The bottom line is a transmission overheating is not good and continuing to drive your car with it overheating can cause serious damage to your transmission. Temperatures above 220 degrees Fahrenheit are very likely to sustain damage by breaking down the transmission fluid resulting in it failing to keep the moving parts lubricated and cool.

Improper Fluid Levels

You can permanently damage your vehicle’s transmission if you continue to drive with low transmission fluid levels. It’s generally not recommended to drive on low transmission fluid. Some garages say short distances like 10 miles should be ok, but you are still taking a chance of damaging your transmission. Low fluid levels can cause jerky movements or prevent gears from

shifting.

Failing to Have Fluid Change

If you fail to not change your transmission fluid the main thing that happens is that the whole transmission system can overheat and cause a complete system failure. The transmission fluid will become dirty and wear out your transmission. Over time the transmission fluid can become degraded to the point of poor lubrication leading to complete transmission failure.

Shift Gears Before Stopping

It is always a safe strategy to come to a complete stop before shifting gears in a car with an automatic transmission. By doing so it lets the relevant moving parts stop moving in one direction before going the opposite direction. It will be the best way to preserve your

drivetrain in your automatic transmission. Some other ways to abuse your transmission system are being in stop and go traffic over a long period of time, off-road driving, start driving before the engine warms up and down shifting to

brake a traffic lights.

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