No scheduled maintenance on Ford Superduty
I have a 2021 Ford F250 with the 7.3 gas engine and the 10 speed transmission. It was bought new and has 20k on the odometer. Supposedly there is no scheduled maintenance on the transmission! I've...
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I can understand your nervousness about it but I have two older vehicles with sealed transmissions, an F150 that has been used quite a bit for trailer towing and 150,000 miles on the clock, and a 2011 Kia Optima with about a 160,000 on the clock. No transmission troubles from either one so far. I did recently get the fluid changed in the F150 as a precaution.
My 2016 F150 only has about 61,000 miles on it but shows that 33,000 of those miles where pulling a trailer over 10,000lbs. And that is not the only trailer that it has been used to pull. If I am not hauling or pulling I generally drive something smaller. I intend to do a transmission fluid and filter change on it soon out of caution. It doesn't seem like it is going to be that hard. You just have to do everything from underneath the vehicle. That makes checking and adding fluid a little more challenging.
My 2016 F150 only has about 61,000 miles on it but shows that 33,000 of those miles where pulling a trailer over 10,000lbs. And that is not the only trailer that it has been used to pull. If I am not hauling or pulling I generally drive something smaller. I intend to do a transmission fluid and filter change on it soon out of caution. It doesn't seem like it is going to be that hard. You just have to do everything from underneath the vehicle. That makes checking and adding fluid a little more challenging.
