Good afternoon all,
2015 mirage at 98,500 miles. So, long story short, when i was a relatively new car owner 2 years ago at 75k-80k miles and still pretty ignorant on proper car care, I accidentally had regular transmission fluid put in my mirage at a quick lube place. A year ago, I start experiencing intermittent transmission overheating. Last winter i took my car to two transmission specialists at independent shops and they each said nothing was wrong, but I knew there still was because i could still smell the burning fluid along with the flashing 'D', at least intermittently still. Two weeks ago i took it to a dealer. Basically, the dealer says there is nothing mechanically wrong with the transmission but I (obviously) need the proper fluid swapped out. I (now) know the proper fluid is CVT7 specific (i think?) so I was totally wrong. Anyone else have experience with this? If anyone else has experienced this, did your transmission recover? I'm sure I'm not the only Mirage owner to have done this by accident!
I know I took a super long time to fix this and for that I regret. The reason was because the overheating did not happen very often and still doesn't. I would like to take care of this now though. I just really hope my transmission can be saved. The other components of my powertrain function well so at least theres that. But I am still looking for new vehicles worst case scenario. I'm taking my car in first thing tomorrow morning that flush and filter change. I am just wondering how likely is it that my transmission will recover.
UPDATE: I had a technician at the dealer flush my CVT twice and put in a new filter. Very fair pricing too, only $300 total. I got back home with no overheating or fault code (the dealer is an hour from where I live). Additionally, acceleration was easier and I could also maintain a higher speed more easily. However, the real test will be next week when I take a 3 hour road trip. I will provide another update then.