DISCUSSION FORUM

This is something I've been genuinely curious about ever since a friend mentioned it casually over dinner last week and I realized I had absolutely no solid understanding of whether it was true or just one of those automotive myths that gets repeated confidently without much actual basis behind it, because I've owned my Escalade for four years now and I'll be honest that transmission fluid has never once come up in any of the routine service conversations I've had at the workshops I've used during that time, which either means it genuinely doesn't need attention as often as some people suggest or means I've been going to places that weren't being thorough enough in what they were recommending. The car has about 92,000 kilometres on it now and I bought it new, so I have the complete history and I can say with reasonable confidence that the transmission fluid has never been changed, not because I deliberately skipped it but because nobody ever raised it as something that needed doing and I didn't know enough to ask about it independently. I started reading more carefully after my friend's comment and came across some information while researching options in the Sharjah area, including a page about a Cadillac gearbox repair garage in Industrial Area 11 Sharjah that had some useful context about what degraded transmission fluid actually does to the internal components of an automatic gearbox over time, and the explanation of how the fluid gradually loses its ability to maintain proper hydraulic pressure and lubricate the clutch packs effectively made me realize that the absence of obvious symptoms doesn't necessarily mean the fluid is doing its job adequately, which is a slightly uncomfortable thing to discover when you've been assuming everything is fine purely because the car hasn't given you any obvious reason for concern. What I can't figure out from my reading is whether 92,000 kilometres without a fluid change on this particular transmission is genuinely in dangerous territory in terms of accumulated wear, or whether it falls within the range where catching up on service now would still be meaningfully beneficial rather than just closing the door after the horse has already bolted, and I'd really like to hear from people who've had a proper transmission fluid service done on a high mileage vehicle that had never had it done before, specifically whether the workshop gave you any feedback about the condition of what came out and whether you noticed any difference in how the gearbox behaved afterward or whether the benefit is more about preventing future damage than improving anything you can actually feel in day to day driving?