Quote Originally Posted by Loren View Post
"As long as possible" after that isn't really their concern. In fact, they should want it to blow up in a ball of fire at 110,000 miles so that you'll buy a new one after 8 or 10 trouble-free years!
Absolutely. They just want you to get to 100,000 miles without bringing it back in for warranty work.

...I opted to drop the pan, change the filter and change as much of the fluid as I could at 50k, and vowed to just pull the drain plug on the pan and change... maybe 2 quarts or whatever comes out... at every other oil change.
I've done the same thing on past cars with automatics. But my cars never seem to have drain plugs in the transmission pan, so sometimes you have to install your own.