Re: Wrong Transmission Fluid

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> ...What is
> strange
> is it would be rediculously easy to setup a test rack, and put a fresh
trans
> in it, instrument the hell out of it, then fill it with Dexron, then run
it
> until it died.
> Then we would have definitive proof as to what it was.

To do it right, multiple units would have to be simultaneously tested 
along with identical units of the same lot filled with the correct fluid 
- ATF+4 as a control.    The cost of the experiment just went up.  But 
no-one has the incentive to make the investment since only the consumer 
is getting screwed regardless of the truth of the matter.

Funny - you never hear of Consumer's Union doing this kind of telling 
testing, when it seems that it fits exactly in their charter.  Why is 
that?  Must not be any money in it for them either.

Bill Putney
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