Like a complete moron I didn't check my trans fluid since I bought the car (about 2.5k ago). Anyway I checked it a few days ago and its pretty high, probably 1-2 quarts. My problem is i'm in college right now so there isn't really anything I can do about it besides pay a shop way to much to change and flush the fluid for me. I was planning flushing it and going to synthetic when I went home for thanksgiving break it will probably be another 300-400 miles. How bad is this?

I checked every other fluid in the damn thing, once or twice a week, for some reason it just occured to me that I haddn't even looked at the tranny fluid since I got it

 

Buy a wide and long tupper wear box, then jack the car up and take out the pan. Drain, put pan back in with new gasket/filter. Then fill.

Do it before you kill the tranny from overheating. Overheating the tranny is a VERY bad thing. You could also blow the pump.

 

You can go to the hardware store and get a really long 1/4" tube stick it down the filler tube and suck away. If you can get under the car then pop out the filler tube and then u can use a real short peice of tube.

 

Yeah, the thing is I don't want to change it now because its going to be changed to synthetic in about 400 miles, I don't have a jack, stands, ramps or anything with me, although its a great excuse to buy a nice floorjack and stands if a cop drive by and I have my car up in the parking garge they might be dick and make me put it down and have it towed to a shop to finish. The tube sounds like a good idea though.

 

just syphon it out for now.

 

Make sure your checking the fluid while the car is running, in case you didn't know. Fluid level drops dramaticly when the car is started.

 

Yeah, thanks I think Ill just go to the hardware store today and pick up some rubber hose.
Yeah I checked it while running, a mechanic once told me though to change gears a couple times before checking it like PNRPD, i tried both, both times it came up way high.