aaah, just for the record, I have a 1951 dodge with fluid drive (chrysler's
rejoinder to GM's hydromatic - a way of avoiding the patents) - it has no
filter, it uses 10 wt oil as the fluid and lubricant, and it's been going
fine for over 50 years. Of course it doesn't have bands and stuff. My
point here is that a filter doesn't make something last a long time by
itself.


"y_p_w" wrote in message
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Steve wrote:

y_p_w wrote:



* No filter to be changed


I wouldn't OWN an automatic with no filter. Talk about pre-planned
obsolesence (failure). Sheesh.

My understanding of Honda automatic transmissions are that they
are a very different design (closer to a "wet" manual transmission),
and that they are typically as reliable as other automatic
transmissions that use filters.

The automatic transmission on my old '89 Integra was running like
new when the car was sold at 115K miles.