Well, you have found the perfect business to get into. However, I don't think that customers would want to leave the car overnight for an oil change. Be sure to post the results of you new business venture.

Its very common on older subarus as the transmission and oil pan are very close to each other and use similar drain plugs, Lots of vehicles got a transmission drain and doubled up engine oil that way.

It was also later fixed by Subaru, they installed a T-55 bolt for the transmission drain.

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1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

Not planning on getting into the business of repairing/changing oil/etc. People like to complain too much, they are NEVER happy regardless of the results.......

You make that blatantly obvious.

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Early Subaru had a separate differential oil fill drain / fill from the transmission from what I recall with draining the differential being the common failure.

This was nothing compared to the SAAB 99 / 900 classic where the engine sat atop the transmission but fluids where separate.

EDIT > Subaru auto transmissions have a steel pan with a drain plug. The transmission pan is far enough back that even if someone didn't know the car was front / all wheel drive, they would have a hard time confusing the trans for engine oil as the configuration looks just like a rear drive car.

At time 0:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coXdL6sDw1g

Wow......so you'll sit here and complain and whine about how everyone is screwing you over, but you won't stick your neck out because other people will whine and complain about how you're screwing them over. Just.......wow.........

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Current stable:
1995 E320 149K (Nancy)
1983 500SL 120K (SLoL)

Black Sheep:
1985 524TD 167K (TotalDumpster™)

Gone but not forgotten:
1986 300SDL (RIP)
1991 350SD
1991 560SEL
1990 560SEL
1986 500SEL Euro (Rusted to nothing at 47K!)

Believe it or not, every once in a while hm forgets to be his normal scared, complaining, hostile and dishonest self and you'll see there's an actual person in there somewhere......

I know he's a serious crybaby, whiner, liar who makes up his 'facts' as he goes along but try to help him to become a rational Adult.....

Imagine how miserable he is inside, you'd not like to be like that, wouldja ? .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

See post 13, here. Our guy doesn't even trust his own car / ability to repair it.

https://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/397788-890-miles-home-stuck-fayetteville-nc.html

Case in point see post 16

https://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/397788-890-miles-home-stuck-fayetteville-nc-2.html#post3898333

Meineke : Reason #89 to perform your own oil changes...

"We don't work on any Mercedes"!

Happy Motoring, Mark

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2005 forester.
I understand mistakes happen but they knew they made one and tried to cover it up. Auto transmissions don’t run on 5-30w. They changed both the trans and crankcase with motor oil

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1993 e300
1995 e320
1994 e320
2006 s500 4matic
2004 Jeep wj overland
2001 Ducati 748
2004 Honda shadow aero

When your car develops a mechanical/electrical issue 500 miles from home, you have three choices:

1. Lucky you if your car broke down in a major city. If a part is needed, attempt to source the CORRECT part from either the dealer or the local auto zone. Be sure and pay up your hotel bill a week in adavnce because there is a good chance you are going to need extra time to perform the repair. Hopefully, you have the proper tools to perform the repair, if not see item #2. Also, if your car broke down 100 miles from the nearest major city, see item #2.

2. Call AAA and have your car towed to the local stealership. Be prepared for sticker shock for the charge for parts and hourly labor rates to perform the necessary repair on your car. Be sure and bring vaseline.

3. Tow a U-Haul trailer full of tools and parts behind your mercedes. That way you will be prepared for any and all mechanical/electrical failures.

Nothing like lying on your back in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in sub zero tempertures trying to change out an alternator......

I've actually done a lot of road side repairs, mostly on others vehicles but in fifty years occasionally my own ~ right after hurricane katrina I was in West by God TEXAS in my old 1978 300CD N/A, stopped for fuel and when I re started the alternator lamp remained lit .

The cheapo original stamped steel alternator pulley had failed, a 'V' shaped chunk of steel fell out of it .

No panic, no week of Motel 6, it took me a day to find another alternator with pulley (oddly I wasn't able to find a used pulley anywhere) , I spent the night in the only really grubby Motel 6 I've ever seen and put two wheels up on the curb in the parking lot the next morning ,got a sheet out of the maid's laundry cart to lay on, ignored the TV set and broken furniture some drunks had tossed through the windows of their room during the night, changed the alternator using the two tool kit wrenches I'd found in the trunk the day before when I bought the car in Louisiana, no panic, no fear, I got to meet some interesting local characters and tour a remote abandoned West TEXAS junkyard where they had the remains of a badly smashed 240D the F.D. had used the laws of life to remove the roof from, I'd offered $100 for the alternator but he wanted $400 for the whole car that had been sitting for several years and was blown full of fine sand and every plastic piece was crispy or nothing, no drama, I moved on .

The point here Mr. afraid of his own shadow by choice is : it's not the end of the world and by choosing to hide from reality and make up stories and scary news events you're missing out on a wonderful full life in the best country of Earth .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

That is on another level of WOW.. standing ovation WOW. Because the fill on that transmission is still the dipstick tube.

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1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

Yes, its pretty obvious for anyone. but still I have seen the transmission drain and doubled engine oil on subarus more than I can count. Including the CVT ones.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)