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I think that if there are problems associated with changing fluid, it is likely due to mixing incompatible fluids or putting in the wrong fluids. I have caused some manual transmission problems in my 45 years of driving, but it was due to putting synthetic gear oil in a manual tranny that was intended to use conventional ATF. I killed two trannys that way before I learned not to put fluid in a tranny that was more viscous than the manufacturer recommended. The Toyota I was able to rebuild inexpensively, but the Volvo tranny was a boat anchor.
This thread reminds me. My '97 328 with a manual tranny has 275k on it and I have not changed the transmission fluid since 175k. Better add that to my to-do list.
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