I'm planning to do mine at 80000 km, is that too late?

 

I just a drain and refill twice at 127,000 miles. You should be okay.

 

the dealership that is local to me said that a drain and fill is recommended at 100k miles but i feel like that's pushing it. i mean, they deal with these vehicles daily, so i dunno, but looking at the intervals for other vehicles needing transmission fluid replacement, 100k miles isn't typically, if ever, the first service interval point.

 

I guess it depends IMO. I never particularly had a transmission issue just slow and jerky shifts. First drain and refill i did was at 90k and 2nd and 3rd at 127k to get majority of old fluid out (all done at Lexus). Since then shifts just like new. But i have also owned car since 30k. Others have done it at 160k+ and reported no issues.

If i had to do it again, prob would have done it around 60k and done another one at 100k.

 

You'll be fine...get'er done!

 

Sweet im going to get my done as well but at a transmission shop lol not Westside Lexus in Houston is by far the worst dealer I ever been too always trying to sell me some garbage or jobs on my car I dont need done.

 

Hi guys, planning to do my ATF fluid change soon and have one question after watching quite alot of videos. I intend to put all four wheels on wheel cribs and use an offset 24mm wrench to undo the fill plug, will that work coz I'm abit lazy to remove the wheel. Thx..

 

Yes. You’ll want a wrench with only a slight offset since the area is really tight (flat wrench won’t fit)