Trans Flush Price

[fordman]

Can you guys please tell me a fair price to get my trans fluid changed? I've had prices from $170 to $260. I have only called dealers because I dont believe a local oil change place will drop the torque conv. and so forth. Thanks.

[CROWNMARAUDER]

I had my trans. flushed in my crown vic for $129.95 last year at currie ford in frankfort. They also have occasional specials for $99.95.

[RoyLPita]

There are some of us here who do not have the access plug for the torque converter on our MMs. and the price of $129.95 is a very good deal.

[RF Overlord]

I have only called dealers because I dont believe a local oil change place will drop the torque conv. and so forth. fordman, most dealers around here won't drop anything, either. They hook up the fluid exchange machine, let it do its thing, then stand there with their hand out. Also, Ford dropped the torque converter drain plug in 2001.

Best to do the job yourself and save a ton of money.

[Gre8one7]

id do it for the price of the fluid, worth the 2.5 hour trip? lol

[1stMerc]

Around $129.95 when i had mine done at 30xxx. Everything uses some form of the BG systems to do flushes these days.

[Black Dynamite]

Dealer I work at just uses the machine. But then again we only charge 89.00

[FordNut]

The machine will do a better job anyway. All the fluid in the tranny, converter, cooler, and lines will be flushed out.

[justbob]

I must admit i didn't change my fluid untill 47,000 miles and it was still very clean and the pan was allmost sparkling. It was a very easy job with nothing in the way and now i will change probably every other oil change to keep new fluid circulating throughout. I'm sorry but i'll never pay $130 to have some shop hook up a machine and flush my tranny and not even change the filter! By the way the gasket is also reusable.

[RF Overlord]

I'm not really a big fan of flushing the transmission for no good reason. If, and I know that's a big if, the transmission was serviced properly from the get-go, just doing a pan-drop (or a drain-and-fill if you have a drain plug) every 20-30,000 should be enough to keep things nice and clean. Obviously if you are hard on your car more often would be better, or if you acquired the car second-hand and don't know the maintenance history a flush would be a good idea, but it's not really necessary to completely flush the transmission every 30,000 miles.

[jimlam56]

Get an E-350 pan with the drain plug (less than 100 bucks for the part) and do it yourself every other oil change..

[Zack]

The cheapest route is to drop the pan, then loosen all of the valve body bolts a little.
I did this and got over 10 quarts out after letting it drain for about an hour.

[Raudermaster]

I had the fluid changed in mine (drained, not flushed) and I paid about $150 bucks.

[freakstatus]

I paid $89 for mine at the Pennzoil drive-in. Even got to see the old go out and the new go in on the machine.

[jgc61sr2002]

I'm not really a big fan of flushing the transmission for no good reason. If, and I know that's a big if, the transmission was serviced properly from the get-go, just doing a pan-drop (or a drain-and-fill if you have a drain plug) every 20-30,000 should be enough to keep things nice and clean. Obviously if you are hard on your car more often would be better, or if you acquired the car second-hand and don't know the maintenance history a flush would be a good idea, but it's not really necessary to completely flush the transmission every 30,000 miles.

I concur with Bob. ^^^^^^

[Johns_goat]

I did pan drop and TQ drain on my 99 Vic. W/o a lift dont think I would want to do it again.

[RF Overlord]

Doing a pan-drop on ramps isn't too bad, but you WILL take an ATF bath the first time...that's why I recommend installing either a universal drain plug (under $10 from almost any FLAPS) or the "U-Haul" pan or one of the aftermarket aluminium pans. Once you have a drain plug, changing the ATF is as easy as changing the motor oil.