I have been changing my own oil in all of my vehicles since the first day I bring them home. Doing this in my HCH has been really easy, except for those dang clips.

It was time for another change this last weekend and I thought I would tackle a transmission fluid change at the same time. Got all my stuff together and set out to do the transmission first. Loosened the fill plug first, was rather easy, jacked her up and started to tackle the drain plug next. For some reason, I wanted to check the level and went looking for the transmission dip stick. IT WAS GONE!!!! I started looking around the bottom of the engine bay and found it wedged in around the radiator.

Of course the last person to even touch the transmission was the dealer when they performed the 60,000 mile maintenance.

There's even a warning on the stick to "keep dirt away". Man, you don't know how mad I was. Changing the fluid was real easy and everything after that went fine and it runs just fine.

Anyone think not having a transmission dip stick in for about 25, 000 miles would cause any damage?

Howard