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Jul 28, 2005

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car fluids?

anyone have any suggestion for automatic transmission fluids and brake fluids? or is honda the best way to go

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use honda ATF fluid for the tranny and any DOT 3 brake fluid.

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use honda ATF fluid for the tranny and any DOT 3 brake fluid.

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honda warns that other (non-Honda) ATFs will cause your car to shift bad. I don't know how true it is but I wouldn't want to find out the hard way. any decent DOT 3 for brakes will work fine.

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