The owner of this car made a very expensive mistake. Let me be clear I am NOT picking on them. This is a weird setup and ive seen professional technicians make that same mistake. But here is what happens when you drive 9,000 miles with no fluid in the rear diff! #humblemechanic #diy
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If the oil doesn't even touch the dipstick that means you put too much.
This happened to my sportwagen. Out of nowhere my rear passenger wheel locked up. I was dragging it. It was under warranty. They claimed that there was a hairline crack due to stress.
Now I understand why some Haldex cases don't have any drain plugs in them. Case-in-point; the Haldex in my Ford Five Hundred. That's two less points of failure…and self-inflicted abuse. Egads that diff looked horrendous!
People need to think. When you just drained a gallon of fluid but only takes an ounce to refill…. Hmmm……
A lot of newer cars you can find a basic repair manual online from the nhtsa and never have this problem. I replaced mk6 2.5 engine just with that at home
naw, dawg shouldn't work on cars ever again
It lasted for 9000 miles with no fluid. That's incredible.
oh god I thought it was the pinion bearing backing off. Still pissed the one in my mk4 r did that
Toyota used to have separate trans and diff cavities in their automatics (much like VW 01Ms) and many shops on install would forget to fill the diff side of the automatic transaxle.
I’m sure more than a few dealer techs and independents have done this more than once to customer cars by accident. Just more work for them in the end given possible long failure interval.