How to Check your Transmission Fluid 2003-07 Cadillac CTS
Created on: 2016-08-03
Watch this video to learn how to check your transmission fluid. The experts at 1A Auto show you how to check the fluid on your 05 Cadillac CTS.
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step 1 :Checking the Transmission Fluid
- Start the vehicle and let it warm up to operating temperature
- Press the brake
- Shift in each gear range for three seconds
- Repeat the process for two or three times
- Place the car in Park
- Raise and support the vehicle on jack stands
- Loosen the T45 drain plug
- If fluid runs out, you have enough fluid
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step 2 :Refilling the Transmission Fluid
- Install a hose
- Pump fluid into the transmission pan until it runs out of the hole
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Jack Stands
T45 Socket
Drain Pan
Transmission Fluid
Ratchet
Floor Jack
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In this video, we're going to show you how to check and refill the transmission fluid in your 2005 Cadillac CTS.
The items you'll need include a T45 Torx bit, ratchet, and socket extension, a screw-on hand pump, Dextron VI transmission fluid, drain pan, and a jack and jack stands.
To check your transmission fluid, you will have to start the vehicle and let it get up to operating temperature. Once it's at operating temperature—we warmed our vehicle up before taking this video—be sure to have your foot firmly applied the brake. Shift into each gear range and hold it for three seconds. Repeat this process two or three times to allow the transmission fluid to properly cycle through all the valves and solenoids inside, ensuring that the level on our pan is accurate.
With your vehicle raised, supported, and running in the Park position, after going through the steps to cycle the transmission fluid, use a T45 Torx bit and socket extension and a ratchet to remove the drain plug on the back of the transmission. Our transmission fluid is running out with the vehicle running, which means that our level is up and where it needs to be. So we can reinstall our drain plug.
Otherwise, you would install a hose or pump, and fill the transmission fluid until it ran out of the bottom of that hole as you saw there. If you do have to add transmission fluid, you'll use a screw-on hand pump setup like this into your jug of Dextron VI ATF fluid for this particular vehicle. Insert the end of the rubber hose into the fill plug hole and pump the top to pump fluid into the transmission pan.
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