I was bored and browsing around on hmaservice and ran across the PDF on how you check transmission fluid on this thing. Did anybody else see that? Holy crap! No dipstick from what it looks like. Plug in the scan tool, make sure you get the fluid to the proper temperature, run it through the gears, put the car up on a hoist, remove a drain plug, if stuff comes out then it has fluid in it. Then you need special tools to put fluid in the thing, it doesn't have an ordinary filler tube. Good thing it's lifetime fluid. :grin:

But I guess if you've got enough money to buy a Genesis, you can pay the Hyundai dealer hundreds of dollars to tell you whether there's any fluid in there. :P

It says the fluid is available at Toyota and Lexus dealers, this isn't another one of those Toyota transmissions is it? (ahem, VeraCruz...) :puzzled:

Is Aisin part of Toyota group?

I don't know if Aisin is part of Toyota, haven't heard anything to that effect, but this does sound like ZF kind of nonsense; the procedure above might have described the ZF. I've experienced similar nonsense in ZF slushboxes in Jags and BMWs and read about it in M-Bs.

And I think that claim that it is "lifetime" fluid is really only for those who are leasing the Genesis - CERTAINLY those who would never drive a car with over 100K miles on it. A transmission or differential that is "sealed for life" MIGHT survive for 100K miles assuming no leaks or other complications (and many cars don't get to 100K without some kind of complication) but that doesn't mean that the fluid at 75K is protecting the components as well as it was at 5K. If I bought a Genesis with the intention to keep it for the long haul, I'd take the trouble to figure out how to change the fluid after 10k. My maintenance schedule is still a very conventional oil change every 3K miles conventional / 5k synthetic or 9 months, whichever comes first, diff oil every 25k or 2 years, whichever comes first, transmission oil every 25k or 2 years, whichever comes first. (For the last few years, time limits on the fluids always hit before mileage.)

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This post has been edited by andyman32: Jun 19 2008, 07:32 AM

You do know that the Veracuz has a sealed transmission as well... the Genesis won't be Hyundai's first sealed transmission.

At least, you don't have to pay for $150 dollars oil change like at BMW dealership.

My 1996 volvo 960 never mentions about changing tranny fluid. I checked the tranny dispstick and it's pitch black, but it shifts very smoothly though.