Does $900 for a flush and filter sound right to yall?

 

That sounds pretty high to me if that is all they are doing. My local dealer quoted me around $650 last year to do the fluid and filter. You can save a lot by getting everything online and doing it yourself though.

 

Way too high, I paid $465 at the dealer.

 

I think I was quoted a little over $700 when I asked.. is about $400 in parts alone. I do it myself, is straight forward.

 

That is way overpriced. Get some Pentosin-FFL2 yourself on Amazon and a filter from SSP and do it yourself for about 250! Super easy too.

 

Pentosin is for these cars. Stick to OEM Diaqueen or Castrol Transmax Dual I believe is the other name for it outside of the states (make sure its specifically for DC-SST). These I believe are what is used by mitsubishi at the dealerships. So far from what I've read any other fluid contributes to the failure rate of these transmissions with the shift fork magnets

SSP paper filter is also not as good compared to OEM. I get my OEM filters for like $50 on ebay and they look much sturdier. I have a picture of the OEM filter side by side with the SSP and you can see the quality difference.

If you're thinking the lifetime filters from SSP I'd also say no. They are shiny and can be reused but they dont filter as well and let more contaminants get through to the transmission compared to the paper filters

 

Oem left. Ssp right

 

If you want to do it yourself here is a how-to video on youtube

http://www.evoxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35444

http://www.clubralliart.com/showthread.php?t=1263

All good resources which show you what you need to do

 

Was just putting in my .02. I've had my ralliart on FFL-2 with over 350whp/tq for about 75k miles and it's been good for me. I didn't know it was bad, razorlab suggested it long ago and has stuck to it stating it was the same fluid. To each their own though. If you have the money for fluid trans fluid flushes and fills every 25k I'd say go with oem stuff. The SSP filter does look different. I just got theirs this last time I changed the fluid. But 900 is way too much. It's not liquid gold lol.

 

There's a guy that sells the jugs for like $120 a piece. You need 2 per fluid change

 

Who is the guy selling? I would buy it at that price and ditch the FFL-2

 

He might be talking about DANCA Automotive. Their web site seems to be temporarily down until tomorrow, but Google's cache shows their price being $116 per container. Not sure about shipping though.

 

Thanks for the info. That is the cheapest I have seen the OEM fluid ever being sold for!

 

I'm getting my 60K service tomorrow at a local Mitsu dealership (which includes a whole bunch of stuff including "Change twin clutch sportronic shift transmission oil andReplace twin clutch sportronic shift transmission oil filter) for about $750. It ended up being about $870 total, but that was including a lot of other stuff so $900 for just a tranny flush seems way too high. Cheers.

 

Yeah I was talking about Danca