04 Audi A4 3.0 Transmission Oil Capacity

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• Projection Fourth dimension: 3 hours
• Tab: $lxxx to $220
• Talent
• Tools: 21mm, 19mm, 13mm wrench, 16mm XZN Drain plug socket, 10mm, 5mm Allen, 10mm socket, fluid pump, lawmaking reader or infrared thermometer, floor jack, jack stands, wheel chocks, safety glasses

• Parts Required: New oil and filter
• Performance Gain: Smooth running transmission
• Complementary Modification: Flush coolant

Changing manual fluid is a straightforward task, and one of those things that is proficient to practise whenever y'all take ownership of a new (to y'all) car.

Transmission fluid has a longer change interval and thus is more probable to accept been neglected by the previous owner.

Fortunately, changing transmission fluid in the A4 is not that hard, if you accept the right tools and get the automobile safely supported upwards on jack stands.

The vehicle must be in a level position (the make full pigsty, when the car is level, serves every bit the indicator that the transmission has the proper corporeality of oil in it). Adjacent, remove the nether body trays. Please encounter our article on under body tray removal for additional information.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle is that you may need a couple of special tools. The car has a 10mm Allen-blazon fastener on the fill plug and a 16mm XZN bleed plug fastener. Make sure that you bank check the fasteners on your manual and simply use the right tools for the task; yous do Non desire to strip one of these bolts.

The filter for the CVT is very expensive and near people refrain from replacing it. If your fluid is dirty when yous change it, the historic period of the last modify is unfamiliar to you or your vehicle has over 100,000 miles on information technology, you should seriously consider changing the filter.

Hot tip

Make sure the temperature is correct when setting the level

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Project Photos

Figure 1 With the underbody trays off yous tin see the filter lines at the forepart of the transmission (green arrow), the filter (yellow arrow) and the bleed and fill plugs (blood-red arrow).

Effigy 2 In that location are two plugs on the lower case of the transmission: the 16mm XZN drain plug (red arrow) and the 10mm Allen fill plug (yellow arrow).

Figure 3 You must use a 16mm XZN socket to remove the drain plug (red pointer). A standard 16mm triple square will not fit or seat correctly in the plug. You lot volition run the gamble of damaging or worse stripping the plug.

Figure 4 Using the special socket, remove the bleed plug (red arrow). Exist prepared equally there is a big volume of oil that volition come up out. Now is besides a good time to remove the fill up plug (yellowish arrow).

Figure five If you are going to exist removing the filter, y'all will need to use a 10mm socket and remove the two bolts (red arrows) on the under tray bracket and remove the subclass. Make sure to requite everything a practiced cleaning, as you do non want whatsoever clay or debris getting into the lines. If you lot are not replacing the filter, yous tin skip steps 5-11.

Figure 6 Use a 5mm Allen and remove the two brackets that hold the cooling and filter lines to the front end of the manual (red arrows).

Figure seven The filter lines connect using 19mm and 21mm nuts. The 19mm nuts are fixed and the 21mm nuts spin. Hold the line with the 19mm nuts (red arrows) with a wrench and use a 21mm wrench to loosen the other nut (xanthous pointer).

Figure 8 E'er leave the end caps on the new filter lines until just before installation and cap the old lines if you lot are going to get out them open for any length of time. Install the line fitting past mitt until it is paw tightened. And then bolt them back in identify for the final tightening.

Figure 9 Remove the two 13mm bolts (carmine arrows) that mount the filter to the left side of the transmission.

Figure x The bolts pass through two rubber isolators on each opening (cherry arrows).

Figure 11 Transfer these safety bushings to the new filter. Installation of the filter is the opposite of removal.

Effigy 12 Reinstall the drain plug and using a fluid pump and hose insert the hose into the make full opening on the transmission (yellow arrow).

Figure 13 The CVT manual holds approximately vii.five liters of fluid. An average fluid change volition use 4.5-5 liters of new fluid (plus another .5-i quart if you changed the filter). Pump in enough fluid until information technology starts dripping out from the make full pigsty. The transmission needs to be at operating temperature (35C-45C or 95F-113F). Start the motor and with your foot firmly on the restriction shift the transmission through all the gears. Using your lawmaking reader or an infrared thermometer get the transmission upwards to operating temperature. With the manual at proper operating temperature, if no fluid is running out, add together fluid until tit drips from the fill hole. This diagram illustrates what is happening within the make full hole.

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04 Audi A4 3.0 Transmission Oil Capacity

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