Re: Some details of the 2AZ-FE engine

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:36:09 -0500, Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Vic Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:58:47 -0500, Steve <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>>> How may car owners ever use the automatic transmission dip stick?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All of them with half a brain.
>>>
>>>
>>> How often do you actually add ENGINE oil? I never need to between 
>>> changes, but I still CHECK it weekly. Same with the transmission
fluid. 
>>> The whole idea of maintenance is to CATCH a potential problem before
it 
>>> becomes costly. Eliminating the transmission dipstick pretty much 
>>> guarantees a low-fluid failure will ultimately destroy the
transmission, 
>>> be it at 10,000 miles or 200,000 miles.
>> 
>> Hard to imagine not having a trans dipstick.
>
>Open the hood of any late model Toyota. :-(

2006 Corolla has them.  I think that's a late model Toyota.

Jack