First of all, let me start off by saying that I am car retarded and have no phucking idea how to work on them. In terms of knowledge, I am about on par with your average sloot.

The odometer on my 2013 Accord says I'm ready for an oil change (sure), changing filters (sure, and I know most mechanics will try and fukk me here), and a transmission fluid change. I called my redneck dad, and he said to not change transmission fluid in your cars. "I never have, it's a scam."

That doesn't smell right to me, so I figured I'd run it by carbrahs of misc. Is it a service I'm fine skipping?

It's not a scam. It needs to be done, more often if the car is a manual. Plus it's like $40 in ATF or oil. It's not like it's a $1500 thing.

You should do it if you want your car to last. Should be a really easy task on a 2013 accord

You can drain and fill the same amount that came out. I think most don't have a fill anymore so you have to buy a special pump to put back in the fluid amount that came out. If you want your tranny to last, you should change the tran fluid, and if you drive or haul hard.

Not a scam.

But my dad had many cars last over 300k km without ever changing the fluid.

If you don't plan on reaching that kind of mileage I would say it's not necessary to change the fluid.

Long as your blinker fluid is topped up you're good to go bud

You can’t really do a very good job yourself , as there’s oil stuck in the torque converter and iyou need specialized equipment to flush it all properly. Plus you need to remove the oil pan to access the trannies filter.
I just paid them to do the tranny and was done with it . Transmissions are so much money nowadays,I think it’s worth changing it . When I don’t know ,as it depends on how hard the vehicle was used

This is referring to flushes where they pressurize the system and force new fluid in and old fluid out. Majority of people will just be doing a drain and fill, which depending on the vehicle has to be done more than once to get majority of the fluid changed.

No need to flush. Just drain and fill.

This. In order to avoid the above issues sometimes people will change out 1/3 - 1/2 of the fluid at a time if the car has high mileage. It's debatable what the best method is or if you should just ride it until it dies.

Might want to go to a honda forum to hear the experiences from other people.

Eventually, yeah. It's amazing how that can impact the way a transmission performs.

Ty for the responses, guys.

I'm at 98k miles right now. This car has been totalled by hail damage and paid out by insurance as such, but I'd like to keep it running because A. it doesn't have any onboard internet or chit that the govt could use to remotely shut me down (ded srs, Klaus Great Reset paranoia), and B. the used car market sucks a phat phuckin dikk right now.

Like others said: don't do a flush, just a drain and fill. I did that a couple times on my car. The way I did it was:

-Remove drain plug and let the fluid drain (it won't all drain out. My car has like 7 or 8 quarts in the transmission but can only drain 3 quarts at a time)
-Fill with new fluid (check dipstick to make sure you're putting in the same amount, obviously)
-Drive around for a bit, making sure to go through all gears, including reverse
-Go back, lift the car up and drain & fill again. Repeat all this until you feel you have "replaced" all the fluid in the transmission.

However I've known others who have had good results just doing a single drain & fill maybe every 2 or 3 oil changes or so. My car is notorious for having auto transmission issues but I haven't had any issues yet with mine.

I just did a single (single as in only one drain and fill per maintenance interval, not that I only did the operation once) drain and fill on my old Honda and never had any problems. Sucker lasted 340k miles and was still driving good when I got rid of it

I have an older car with about 115k miles on it. Bought it used.

Took it to the shop recently for some radiator work and asked them about changing the radiator fluid.

They checked it and recommended not to do it as it didnt need it because it looked and smelled just fine. Thought it was pretty cool that a repair shop didnt even recommend it when they usually milk every last dollar they can from you.

You should absoloutly change it, just doesn't need doing that frequently. For most cars built in the last 20 years every 60-100k should be fine.

It's incredibly easy to do in an MT, but a bit of a ballache in an auto (and uses a LOT more transmission fluid)

I did a drain and fill with 10 ish litres of fluid on an e92 3 series with 130k on the clock about 5 years ago and it went fine. As above there are stories of changing it too late causing issues with debree and what not, but nearly all examples i've seen of this are when people attempt to flush the transmission, instead of just drain and fill. I'd say if you drain and fill it's 99.9% going to be fine and extend the life of the trannie.

At 97k miles i wouldn't even be remotely worried though, i'd just do it. I'd probably start questioning it if it had 150k+ miles.

What's also worth noting, that i haven't seen anyone else mentioning yet is:
1. Not sure how the trannie is setup on the honda, but on my BMW it was worth changing the filter & metatronic sleeve also while you're doing it.
2. Adaptions also needed resetting, the car 'adapts' to the age of the fluid, at least in the e92. These adaptions need to be reset to see a performance benefit from changing the fluid. I'm not sure if the same is true in your Honda but it's definately something worth investigating.This sounds alturistic but im not sure it is; it's the same thing here in UK. Many companies wont touch an auto transmission service, because it's actually not a great paid job considering the time it takes, and the risk involved of being blamed if the trannie then goes on to fail. There are much more efficient ways for them to make money than doing transmission fluid changes. Even BMW themselves refused to do mine, claiming its a 'lifetime fluid' (which really means '100k' since after 100k all cars are out of warranty and not their problem).

In on yet another misc tranny thread.

I did it on an older car with 160k miles, I don't think it had ever been changed before. I don't think I'll ever need to do it again. Don't think the car ran any smoother. I guess I'm glad it didn't break anything.

If it's an at and the filter has never been done ,do it

Drain and refill every 60k otherwise

Never ,ever ,flush a trans

Certain cars have certain procedures

My 330i was a pia ,in every fkn way

Car has to be level ,have to let it come up to temp and circulate new fluid then top off

There's no fill ,or dipstick ,so you need a pump

This is usually European car bs

Japanese are simple drain and refill

Anyone saying trans fluid is lifetime is either a mechanic or a ja

Depends on the car. My car has “lifetime” transmission fluid guaranteed by the manufacturer. They’ve even sealed it so the fluid can’t replace by any mechanic.