What to pour into automatic transmission? Motor motor Toyota ATF Type 4.

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Introducing the revised version of our material about interchangeability different types ATF. Here are taken into account last years Changes in the world of transmissions and oils, changes in logistics and well-being ... Let's start with a direct answer to the question made in the title, and then go through the main transmission fluids Toyota.

Specification of the working fluid for the internal market models since the 1980s (automata series A13 #, A24 #, A54 #, A4 #, A34 #, A44 #, etc.). In foreign markets, these models were prescribed to refuel ATF type DEXRON II / III without mentioning D-II.

Technical meaning in the acquisition of this particular fluid is absent. You should use any ATF that meets DEXRON II / III specifications.

In the repair manuals or use, this Toyotovskaya liquid is absent, since it appeared much later than the end of the production of models with classic machines. Comes to all markets as original replacement Outdated ATF D-II.

There is no technical meaning in the acquisition of precisely this fluid, but in specific conditions D-III may be more affordable and cost-effective BRAND ATF.

Used from 1988 to 2002 in the "all-wheel drive" A241H and A540H automatic transmission for better work of a partial blocking of the mid-sieve differential.

The original is currently shipped to the domestic market. On the foreign market, the Type T-IV is considered semi-definite for Type T, however, on the T-IV canister directly indicate - "It is not recommended to use in automata under dexron 2/3 or Type T".

Perennial local practice has shown that machines with these machines work perfectly on the usual ATF types of DEXRON without any deterioration in operation full drive.

In the market, the supply of Type T is small, and there is no meaning in targeted acquisition. Application as a substitute Type T-IV can damage sufficiently old boxes, therefore, it is optimal to use less aggressive fluids according to the DEXRON II or III specification.

ATF TYPE T-II
Used in 1990-1997. For some machines with electronically control (A34 # series on classical layout sedans). Officially replaced T-IV.
In practice, any traditional ATF has been successfully replaced. Today, use as a substitute Type T-IV can damage enough old boxes, therefore it is more optimal to use less aggressive fluids according to the DEXRON II or III specification.

ATF TYPE T-III
Used in 1994-1998 On some automata with Flex-Lockup (part A34 #, A35 #, A541E, A245E). Officially replaced T-IV.

The main specification for all AISIN boxes after 1997 (U44 #, U34 #, U24 #, U14 #, early U15 #, A65 #, Late A24 # E, A34 #).

At the very beginning of the 2000s, instead of the then rare and expensive T-IV, traditional ATF type DEXRON III was successfully used. Later independent oil producers have settled the ATF issue of 3309 specification and universal ATF, and in the future the proposal of the original T-IV has grown so much that it has become hardly the most accessible liquid of its specification - it often acquires owners of other brands of cars with similar Boxes AISIN (Audi, Chevrolet, Daewoo, Fiat, Ford, Mazda, Opel, Porsche, PSA, Renault, Saab, Suzuki, VW, Volvo etc).

Using instead of T-IV ATF Specifications DEXRON does not entail negative consequences, but today it is already inappropriate.
The equally correct solution is the use of both the original Type T-IV liquid and any ATF corresponding to the JWS 3309 specification - depending on the specific circumstances.

The main specification applicable since 2004, used in modern 5/6 / 8-speed automata (series U15 #, U66 #, U76 #, A75 #, A76 #, A96 #, AA8 #, AB6 #). It has significantly less viscosity compared to the preceding ATF T-IV.

Liquid in sufficient quantities is presented in the market. The use of both the original WS and any ATF corresponding to the JWS 3324 specification is equally true, depending on the specific circumstances.

Together with the first Toyotov CVT in 2000, a specialized working fluid For variators.

The optimal use of the original CVTF TC, which in sufficient quantity is presented in the market. It is possible to use any liquid that meets the JWS 3320 specification. When urgent need it is possible to use universal CVTF.

Since 2012, the gradual transition of all variators on a new "energy-saving" fluid FE has begun - with noticeably smaller viscosity and fewer useful additives.

Optimally use of the original CVTF FE, which is in sufficient quantity in the market. When urgent need it is possible to use universal CVTF.

"Why write about it? Today everyone can afford the original"
Let now there are no problems with availability or with the price of original working fluids. But the question is in the other - a completely reasonable advice "It is necessary to use the recommended liquids" too often changes the slogan "You can not use anything other than the original!" With this coarse manipulation, challenged by the early merchants by Japanese spare parts, picked up by the official and separated mass of distant from the technique of owners - it is impossible to put up.

"Oil or ATF - Scholastic?"
IN mechanical boxes Transmission transmissions butter Performs almost exclusively the role of lubrication. IN automatic transmission the main task liquids - Transmission of power from the engine to the box, further work in the control hydraulic system, ensuring the necessary friction friction, cooling the rubbing elements and the lubricant actually. Therefore, there was a wider concept of ATF (Automatic Transmission Fluid) - liquid for automatic transmissions.

"Why GM and Dexron are taken for a reference point?"
Today, the joint venture GM-Ford for the production of automata is on the side of life and deep in the shadow of world transmission giants - AISIN, ZF, HPT, Jatco ... However, it is GM who were the generics of mass use of the automatic transmission, the largest world OEM suppliers of automata, And their specification of fluid for many years has become synonymous with the very concept of ATF.

Some GM Specifications History:

1949	ATF TYPE A - First GM Corporation Specification on ATF
1957	ATF TYPE A SUFFIX A - Updating Specification
1967	Dexron B - First Specification Actually With Designation DEXRON
1972	DEXRON IIC - option with new friction modifiers
1975	Dexron IID - a corrected IIC version, which has become the most common standard and synonym for ATF
1991	Dexron IE - Improved Specification with Best Viscosity Temperature Properties
1993	Dexron IIF - Unified Replacement for IID and IIE
1997	DEXRON IIIG - new requirements for friction and antioxidation properties with viscosity characteristics IIE
2003	DEXRON IIIH - improved base with better durability, oxidation and foaming protection
2005	DEXRON VI - new, noticeably less viscous liquid

- Specifications "DEXRON IV" and "DEXRON V" officially did not exist, although in Slane could be called IIIG and IIIH. Marketing designation "D-IV" for late dexcroses Independent oil manufacturers sometimes used in the market.
- Shortly after the release of D-VI, GM has canceled all previous specifications and stated the full backward compatibility of the new ATF with all the earliest types of Dexron. In reality, the translation of the elderly boxes on the liquid of another composition and with noticeably other viscous characteristics looks extremely doubtful.
- The original GM Dexron VI was famous for his tendency to a very rapid darkening (to the state of motor development), although the manufacturer officially considers such a behavior of the norm.

"Universal liquids?"
Here is a clear example of how the manufacturer of Toyotovsky Transmissions itself - AISIN - refers to the idea of \u200b\u200ba narrow specialization of liquids: AFW + - alternative all ATF from D-II to WS (as well as the mass of original ATF other brands), CFEX is an alternative to all CVTF, including TC and FE.

Today it becomes a trend: one liquid is on all automatic machines, the other liquid is on all variants, absolute backward compatibility with early ATF.
Of course, we warmly welcome such official confirmation of our words for more than a decade ago about ATF interchangeability. But we will try to not forget another most important principle - "do not bother the machine to work" - for properly functioning boxes of 10-15-25 years old, it is best to continue to use the liquid on which they drove so far.

"Periodicity?"
It will be appropriate to remind not only "that", but also "when to pour into the automatic transmission. However, from the beginning of the mass operation of automata, the answer has not changed: every 30-40 t.km should produce at least partial replacement (update) fluid, every 80-120 t.km - replacement with removal and cleaning of the pallet, magnets, mandatory filter replacement. It is even better not to simply "update" the liquid, but to change it by the method of displacement (with connection through the hoses of the booth cooler through which the fresh liquid is supplied when the engine is running, and the old and the trunk of the box and the housing of the hydrotransformer are being washed).
In 2000, many new automata lost control probes, and the instructions disappeared the frequency of mandatory replacement ATF. (But the concept of "working fluid is designed for the entire service life"). It is officially offered every 40 t.km to check the condition of the fluid, and change after 80 t.km only with particularly severe operating conditions. Literal following such recommendations will sentence an automatic, especially modern, already on the second hundred thousand mileage kilometers, therefore, for long and smooth operation, it is better to adhere to the traditional periodicity of ATF replacement even on the newest cars.

"What a manufacturer recommended pouring into my box (A541E, A340H, A245E)?"
The exact manufacturer's recommendations can be called, knowing not only the box of the box, but also a model and year of release of a particular car. First, the same Toyotov's notation was carried out several automata slightly different designs. Secondly, the recommendations were periodically changed even during the release of one generation of the model (especially often it happened during the appearance of the next, new specification at that time - T-IV, WS, FE).

"What is FLEX Lock-Up?"
Starting from the mid-1990s, in the AISIN automatic boxes, the mode of operation of the hydrotransformer "with partial lock" appeared (FLU - FLEX LOCK UP). Previously, the hydrotransformators of the machines worked in two modes - or with the transmission of the moment from the engine only through the liquid, or in the full lock mode, when the crankshaft, the case of the transformer and the input shaft of the box are tightly connected friction coupling And the moment is transmitted purely mechanically similar to the traditional clutch. In a partial blocking box, there is an intermediate mode in which the coupling may be slipped into one degree or another. At first, partial lock was used at low loads and in a rather narrow high-speed range, but for the sake of increasing the cost-effectiveness and improve the dynamics, the modes of complete and partial blocking on more modern machines began to be applied more and more.
Of course, Flu is not a Japanese know-how, therefore, since the Dexron III specification, the requirements for automatons with partial blocking have been taken into account.

"They say, if you pour a dexron instead of T-IV, then you will appear?"
When pouring any fresh Liquids, even original, are possible some changes in the behavior of the machine, and we are not always positive. Fresh ATF is always different from its old chemical / physical properties (even more than more than two different varieties of fresh fluid differ, and in its own way affects the operation of the box, already "adapted" to the old ATF.
In our practice, there are no differences in behavior of serviceable automata when used instead of T-IV other ATFs (even without tolerance 3309) was not noted.

"Where to learn the viscosity of the original liquid?"
The main Toyotovsk site has long been and regularly updated Safety Data Sheets to all original materials, from paints and oils to antifreeze and fragrances.

"What is the code of the right original Type T-IV?"
Original Toyotovskaya ATF can take the most different external form: Metal "Japanese" Bank (black, white, gray), black plastic "civilian" bottle, gray plastic "European" canister ... Do not try to allocate "more real" from them.
But why the retail price of the original ATF in the Russian Federation is other than once a half or two times lower than in Japan or the US ... Let it be better than a small commercial secret.

"Type T can be officially replaced by Type T-IV"
On the one hand, in June, "98 Toyota has released the TC003-98 service newsletter for the American market, according to which the ATF Type T-IV is completely replaced by the previous T-II and T-III, but did not replace the actual Type T.

On the other hand, in the technical documentation for the domestic market, substitutes for Type T have never been envisaged, but on the original metal canister with Type T-IV still in Japanese and in English indicated "It is not recommended to use ... instead of Type T".

What option is more faithful? The first and last models common in the foreign market under Type T was RAV4 SXA10 (for which these bulletins appeared), however, almost two dozen models were produced inside Japan in 1988-2002, while more massive, with A241H and A540H boxes. Therefore, in matters of operation, the full drive of more trust deserve the practice of the internal market. And today you can add - if japanese Toyota. officially He recognized the replacement of Type T, it would not sell this fluid in the late 2010th, and immediately sent it into non-existence as the T-II, T-III and dozens of other oils of truly outdated specifications.

"And in fact, did anyone poured the non-original liquid?"
I want to remind you that Japanese cars appeared in the country in those days when there were no mobile phones, Internet, and in Primorye we went through the winter ... And, of course, there was not even the very concept of "original liquids", the trade import of which began only at the turn of the 2000s. But from the very beginning of the 1990s tens of thousands of Toyota (including the A241H, A540H boxes, A245E, A340E) were operated here on any ATF available - without breakdowns and problems, and many of them feel good today.
But before buying a completely non-brand ATF, we strongly recommend familiarizing yourself with the final part of our articles On the choice of engine oil.

"Everything is clear ... But maybe it's still better than the original?"
Of course, in addition to the benefits for the car, the use of original working fluids has a pacifying effect on the owner and increases its CHW. And do not forget that in addition to the original ATF, the instructions are prescribed to use:
Only approved Toyota Motor oil
Only original cooling fluid "Toyota Genuine Super Long Life Coolant"
Only the original fluid for the hydraulic pot "Toyota Genuine Power Steering Fluid"
Only original brake fluid "TOYOTA GENUINE BRAKE FLUID 2500H"
Only original compressor oil "ND-OIL8-11" ...
As well as only original Toyota spare parts.
Obtained only W. official dealers Toyota.
Otherwise, because the car immediately falls apart, is it not true?

Unlike motor oils, propellations for automatic transmission, in my opinion, it is necessary to take relatives, original. The fact is that automatic box The gear is a very thin mechanism, and the use of unsuitable liquids can lead to her premature failure. And if everything was quite simple on older cars, Dexron II or Dextron III was used, which produces a large number of manufacturers, now the automatic transmission of various firms use a wide variety of fluids recommended for their type of boxes. Therefore, when the question arose about replacing the oil in a box-machine on Toyota, the choice without hesitation was made in favor of the proprietary canister of the recommended liquid Toyota ATF Type T-IV.

The bank itself was similar to the canister with the Toyota motor oil, which I also moved after a short choice. Canister gray, with a print of black and red colors. All information is in Japanese, hieroglyphs. In English, only the most basic one is given.

On the side wall, information is also given in Japanese, and duplicated in English. There is a warning about safety measures (not to change the liquid on hot transmission, put on safety glasses and gloves), first aid instructions when entering the eye, on the skin or inside the body, recommendations for the storage and disposal of the used liquid.

Total, we have high-quality oil from the manufacturer, for Toyota automatic transmission automatic transmission machines, which recommended the ATF Type T-IV liquid, is priced slightly higher than you can find analogs from third-party manufacturers. But the replacement of fluid in the automatic transmission is required not so often (usually every 50 TCM, we can both more often), so the cost of a really high-quality product is justified. Moreover, when it comes to such an expensive unit as an automatic transmission.