MAHLE Presents an Efficient Solution for Gearbox Flushing

Nowadays, more and more automakers ditch manual gearboxes in favor of automatics. The auto market statistics confirms this shift to the automation: the number of cars with automatic gearboxes has increased by around 40 % in the last 5 years. Due to this trend, demand for automatic gearbox service is also booming. With the ATX 150, MAHLE Aftermarket now offers repair shops a new solution for the gearbox flushing.

Higher requirements of customers for driving comfort and legal restrictions on CO2 emissions lead to the growing number of cars equipped with automatic or robotic gearboxes with more sophisticated designs. Due to technical complexity of these gearboxes, car owners have to adhere to specific maintenance intervals determined by carmakers.

ATX 150 flushing unit

The quality of transmission fluid plays a critical role in the gearbox operating condition. Over time, ATF gets contaminated and fluid leakages may occur. Therefore, well-timed gearbox maintenance and ATF change can significantly prolong the service life of your gearbox. Thanks to the new flushing machine, repair shops can provide fast and efficient flushing services for automatic gearboxes in passenger cars. This new model belongs to the FluidPRO series and makes it possible for repair shops to perform the fluid change service in accordance with MAHLE Aftermarket’s E3 principle: environmentally sound, economical, and efficient. The ATX 150 machine guarantees purity when changing the ATF type thanks to the ‘Zero cross’ concept (i.e. prevents the mixing of different ATF types).

MAHLE service solutions

Moreover, MAHLE Aftermarket has recently presented new oil filters for automatic gearboxes. The oil filters prevent preliminary wear and damage of automatic gearboxes. Thanks to the abovementioned new products, MAHLE Aftermarket is able to offer an efficient solution for automatic gearbox maintenance. MAHLE offers automatic machines/units for automatic gearbox flushing, which are notable for simple operating principles and automatic flushing process. FluidPRO machines combine user-friendly design and the most modern technologies.

The new MAHLE flushing unit provides a range of benefits for repair shops and their customers.

Benefits for repair shop customers:

• Reduction of expenses on the transmission repair;
• Significant improvement in shifting characteristics;
• Gearbox resource enhancement taking in account its mileage.

Benefits for repair shops:

• Fully automatic flushing process without manual intervention;
• Wide range of offered services;
• Establishment of closer relationship with customers.