Do You Need To Jack Up 2012 Toyota Tundra For Oil Change

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there are lots of DIY threads here virtually changing a/t fluid. my maintenance transmission (came with with the truck) goes for 250,000 miles and never mentions the transmission fluid.

i am upward to 95,000 miles and i accept 5,000 miles to get the skinny....

non wishing to be coy, just...

?????
I accept driven automatic Toyota's for Well Over 200K Miles without ever changing the transmission fluid. And never a problem.
With that existence said, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't get it changed, or that you will not have any issues. As long equally the fluid isn't burned I would recommend a flush at 100K miles only for General Principle and it should not hurt anything.

4WDTrout and captsolo similar this.
Toyota Dealership that I've used for the last 10 years say the same thing. Doesn't need to be changed. That said... I'll be changing it when the fourth dimension comes.
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I recollect Toyota revised the maintenance schedules and for my 09, at present states that fluid alter internal is 60K. Edit: looks like it's valid for those that tow...
http://world wide web.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/omms/T-MMS-09Tacoma/xhtml/T-MMS-09Tacoma_0001.html?locale=en

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There are lots of great threads out at that place. Hither is what I take learned.
i. Toyota WS fluid May or may not be fully synthetic
2. Valvoline max life, and amsoil make WS rated fluid.
three. At that place are two preferred methods for irresolute
A. Drib and supervene upon 3-4 quarts in the pan
B. full flush
4. There is no dipstick, so you need to have scangauge or similar trans temp readout
five. Not every asshole with their proper noun on a shirt can exercise this (INCLUDING DEALERS!!!)
6. If y'all tow anything y'all should fully affluent @ 50k
7. Regular driving 75k
8. A flush machine May or may not F upward the trans, specially @ 100k interval.
9. Simply use WS fluid and make sure you run into what goes in if someone else does it!
Look up the Gearcruncher on the forum... That dude forgot more near these transmissions than nosotros will ever know
The "never change information technology" stems from an EPA regulation not what'south all-time for our trucks. Think, toyota buys these transmissions and the mfg of these units suggests 35k changes!!!
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I only drain and refill every 30k mls, that gets some of it out just by far not all - my taco is at 21k so I volition do information technology side by side twelvemonth...I added an condiment at effectually 10k
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I put toyota WS back in my sequoia. Taco will get a total affluent @ 30k and everything will get amsoil except for Mobil i in the engine. I did the sequoia myself. It was tricky, but the next fourth dimension will be cake.
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From the irrelevant anecdotal bear witness department:
I have a 2005 Toyota sedan with 170,000 miles on it that has never had a transmission fluid service. The grease monkeys at my local shop that do the engine oil religiously every 5,000 miles call back I am nuts for not letting them change the transmission fluid.
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Hey Lomez,you are right.
That is irrelevant.
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I am going to backtrack. I think it is not irrelevant. Still anecdotal though.
Hardest office of doing the trans fluid is getting the truck into AT TEMP mode to cheque the level. It's just fourth dimension consuming.
Only a side annotation...
The automatic manual in the two.7 liter engine has a dip stick.....
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dont compare the loads a car sees to what many Tacomas will be exposed to. If you offroad specially climbing, tow or dont use the transmission they way it was designed you will vanquish the hell out of the oil. Remember all you have to practise is over do it once and the oil is shot. I dumped my trans oil at 35k it looked fine, it was definitely over kill. Then I did a few drop the oil in the pan changes and it looked dark but with some red color. At 110K i did a affluent and it looked like motor oil that had been run for 20K. Proceed in mind I do a whole lot of slow climbing in 4x4 with much of that in low gear because you will burn the oil otherwise. If you use the truck the fashion I practise and follow the 100k recommendation IMO you lot are playing with fire over an open pail of gasoline.
Too, please notation that I did in fact check the viscosity of the oil using the skilful sometime fashion rub it between my fingers and I did a contaminant assay past looking at the oil through a plastic canteen. Doesn't get more than anecdotal than that.
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Most any transmission will last at least 200,000 with the oil that came from the manufactory. Just leave it alone and drive it. If you've gone shut to 100,000 or more and change it at this betoken yous'll practice more than damage than expert. Most transmissions with new oil at that betoken die presently later. If yous do want to alter it, commencement it at about 30,000 and then you must do it every 30,000 or you're screwed.
Realistically, it is well-nigh a launder financially. As said, mill oil is good for at least 200,000. Changing it regularly MIGHT add together possibly 50,000 miles, but that is almost $1,000 worth of oil changes. $i,000 is a lot just to become a few extra miles out of the transmission.
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Threads like this scare me into thinking I should get my tras fluid changed at the dealer so that if it does I tin play the blame game....why the heck are transmissions sensitive to oil viscosity
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My boss once told me (he's a Pontiac guy, and not into trucks at all, just nonetheless knows his stuff) that when he changes trans fluid he keeps half of the old fluid and only replaced it with one-half new fluid. He says that's how you keep transmissions from dieing...anyone ever heard of this?
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Oil goes bad for many reasons. You tin can either do a total flush or remove a few quarts out of the pan and replace with new every so often. Burnt oil volition leave deposits and varnish. New oil will make clean that out and boot up all the contaminants and circulate it through the system causing problems by bottleneck upward lines, sticking up servos and trashing other components. If you alter regularly and the oil hasn't been oxidized you are fine to modify all the times you want. Once oil is overheated beyond its capacity it will degrade. Adding new oil buys time merely the all-time is to do a affluent unless, like I said earlier, the oil is and so far gone it has oxidized and deposited varnish on the components then kicking it all up volition speed upwards the destructive process with in the trans.
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if factory oil is skilful for 200k so why does Toyota list maintenance at 100K and so revised that figure down to 60K. Practise what the manual says and dont try to 2d guess the maintenance schedule developed past the manufacturer unless you want to increment the interval due to severe service conditions. They designed it and they know what is ok and not ok (most of the fourth dimension). Similar I said I dumped mine at 35K and it was still good. And then i dumped what was in the oil pan. Looked used then over again shortly afterwards and information technology looked pretty burnt. I decided to do a full flush and information technology was nasty. That was about 10K miles agone and it is still running potent.
I accept, it'south called a rotation drain. Y'all drain what comes out - measure - refill with that amt.
This is how information technology works(or did) in 4 cyl Accords. six qt. organization - 3 bleed when you pull the plug. Refill with iii. Car had 375,000 miles on information technology when I sold it.

Did the same with a 1st Gen Tacoma and at present have correct at 200,000 miles on an Avalon going this route. Not saying this is what anyone should do, just maxim it's what I've been doing for many years and it'southward yet to fail me.

Only machine I ever owned that had a converter and pan bleed plug was an early on 90s Mercedes.
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How often are y'all doing this. I am thinking of going this rout every 15k miles. A total flush is kindof a PIA