Evgeniy

Hi Dave, Thank you very much. Greatly appreciated to your answer. Cheers, Eugene

Hi Dave, Several hours ago, my Toyota Aurion 2007 has lost an engine oil in same way as you have described and photographed. Could you please share with me what the problem was in your car? Oil filter overtired. Or maybe the oil line burst. It will be interesting to know. I need to fix my car now. I'll greatly appreciate for your answer. Kind Regards, Eugene

Thank you very much Tony. Cheers, Eugene

Hi everyone. Could you please help me, I need a wiring diagram for radio/navigation/reverse camera unit. I need to connect new aftermarket unit and Toyota dealer cannot give me any wirings diagrams. Regards it as a top secrete and proprietary information

Thank you very much!!! Now I am confident that nothing wrong with a cooling system of my car

Is anyone knowing what the coolant engine temperature for Toyota Aurion should be? My is reading 93 C engine running in idle and when it drives the temperature dropped to 83-87 C. Looks low to me and maybe it requires to change thermostat? From the top of my head this coolant temperature should be around 95 - 105 C

I have a Toyota Camry 2000, V6, 3L, manual trans. It is 22 years old now and 465,000 km on odo. Still running good. Two months ago I have bought Presara 2007 with a 169,300 on odo. Hope it will last another 10-15 years up to 500,000 km

Yes, I dropped hot (around 60 C) fluid from the drain bolt and after pan has been opened, from the pan to the 5L measuring jar (I called it the Bunnings jar). I was awaiting for several hours to make sure that the fluid in the jar and new ATF WS will be at same ambient temperature. Meantime I have installed the pan and new filter back. In jar it was around 2.8 L of old fluid at temperature of 22 C in my garage. Than I have injected exactly 2.9 L of new ATW WS to the transmission (for 100 ml more than was). So, I did not check the fluid level because I do not have the controller to connect it to the car computer. I do not have even simple temperature laser gun. So, it was a risky exercises, but I have used simple logic - substituted absolutely same volume of drained fluid with same volume of new fluid and make sure that these two fluids have same ambient temperature. Plus additional 100 ml. So far, so good. After 50K will do it by more scientific way - will buy a controller to connect car's computer and use the drain plug to get the level in pan at 42.5 C.

Thank you again Tony. I have changed the oil in Trans like for like and only in a pan (Toyota ATF WS, expensive fluid, but not required full flash). Washed the pan as per your recommendation and changed the filter and gasket. Oil surprisingly was not too bad (I did change at 170K, but I just bought this 2007 Presara). Still red colour and not much debris on the pan at all. I did it because I did know the history of this car, may be someone already did it. Car itself very beautiful despite it is 15 YO and I just did not want to take a gambling with Trans.

Hi Tony, thank you very much for such a detailed description of oil change in Aurion's transmission. Please tell me: - is it necessarily to do a full flash of trans system? Some mechanics advised just to replace the oil which is in pan drain and put back same amount and same type of fluid back to transmission. Is it possible to drain the fluid from the pan by syphoning it from the filler hole? In this case there is no need to remove the pan at all. How the transmission in your car starts to behave after fluid and filter changed? Kind Regards, Eugene