2002 Explorer Transmision Maintenance

[rubberguts]

I have a 2002 Explorer (Eddie Bauer V8) edition that I recently inherited. It has 45,000 miles on it. I had the transmission fluid changed per
recommendation of everyone in this newsgroup. So far, no issues with the transmission. If I change the fluid every year, will that prevent transmission problems or will it eventually need repair regardless of maintenance. I had a transmission specialist change the fluid and he said that the old fluid "looked" okay.

 

[DAT05EXPLODER]

every transmission will act differently according to driving styles, road conditions, etc. just keep up with maintenance and hope for the best.

 

[94Eddie]

Frequent fluid and filter changes improve the odds of a long transmission life a great deal. I have never had to rebuild an automatic transmission on any vehicle I have owned where I bought it with less than 60k miles and changed the transmission fluid and filter every 30k-40k miles. Some of these vehicles were driven to 150k to 200k miles.

 

[cross6]

Fluid changes. Band adjustments.

Some things are prone to failure regardless of fresh fluid, servo bores and separator plate gaskets are usually a matter of time.