[Otter74]

I'm doing an oil change on my Beige Transportation Appliance this weekend, and figure it's about time to do a trans fluid service, too. The BTA is a 2003 Accord with 55k miles. This is the first and only two-pedal car I've owned, so A/T service is not already in my car-maintenance repertoire.

Is it sufficient to do a drain and fill? (I can do this easily by removing one of the cooler lines), or should I flush it? I know that a drain and fill won't get anything out of the torque converter which is probably holding close to half the fluid in system.

Or perhaps do a drain and fill and then another one after some relatively short mileage interval? At the rate I drive it (especially with the 911) It takes me at least a year to rack up 5k miles.

Being rigorous about it tells me to flush and fill, but if it's not really needed I'll skip it since it's a lot more work.