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      03-18-2025, 04:40 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by fe7565 View Post


"What i did. Drain transmission. repalce drain plug. Fill transmission with fresh fluid. Run through the gears. Drain transmission a second time and replace the filter. Then fill, go through all gears, and top off. I wanted to flush the system with fresh fluid and then remove that fluid as it would become contaminated with the old in the torque converter. You wont be able to completely get out all the dirty transmission fluid, however, this cycles out some of the bad or old fluid in a attempt to replace as much of it with fresh fluid as possible."
Exactly what I did with my E60 530i when I replaced solenoids/bridge seal/etc. Losing a couple of liters of fluid was worth the result. My $.02.
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