new versus old

[RICHPAGTUO]

I work at POTOMAC GERMAN AUTO RECYCLING.WE are having a problem with 722.6 transmission's coming out of car's.Some of the car's have red fluid while others have green fluid.Has there been an update in fluid.I have both part numbers****000-989-2103 and 000-989-4503****,due to i do not have a quart of this lying around and the mb dealer cant tell me the color.Any help with the fluid in these trans would be great.thank you

[slk230red]

Originally Posted by RICHPAGTUO

I work at POTOMAC GERMAN AUTO RECYCLING.WE are having a problem with 722.6 transmission's coming out of car's.Some of the car's have red fluid while others have green fluid.Has there been an update in fluid.I have both part numbers****000-989-2103 and 000-989-4503****,due to i do not have a quart of this lying around and the mb dealer cant tell me the color.Any help with the fluid in these trans would be great.thank you

I have a bottle of the 000-989-2103 MB transmission fluid and it is red.
Hope this helps.

Dave

[rg2098]

Could people be putting power steering fluid in the trans? It's common to use ATF in the P/S pump.

[sokoloff]

Isn't the new backwards compatible fluid for the 722.9 transmission purple? Does the old dirty red and the new purple make green when mixed?

BTW, great to have someone here from PGA.