Re: Wrong Transmission Fluid

"Bill Putney" <bptn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:680854F2qqoe5U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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?

Because the average consumer has no understanding of what real
product testing is all about, and so does not demand better than the
schlocky testing that Consumers Union and also Consumer Reports
does?

Ted