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I was wheeling in the mountains east of San Diego and all of a sudden a warning I'd never seen before, "HOT OIL," began flashing and ringing loudly on my dash. I wasn't doing anything usual or especially challenging, just climbing a rough jeep road that was hardly beyond beginner. My crankcase showed the oil temp was fine, and I looked under the hood and everything was normal. It was only after consulting WF that I learned the "oil" was the transmission fluid, not the crankcase oil. [Another brilliant move by Jeep/Chrysler.] Also that the situation is very serious.
So my question is -- was the fluid damaged or degraded for even the 30-60 seconds while it was too hot? Should I flush the transmission fluid system and replace it with fresh fluid? Is there anything else I should consider doing? Again, I stopped as quickly as I could when the alarm began ringing but it did take another 30 seconds of driving to get to a flat place out of the way of the other vehicles?
Thanks for any advice.
P.S.: For now at least, don't ask me to call the dealer service shop. I called them before doing my homework on WF and the clown said he'd never heard of the HOT OIL light and, if the warning went away, everything was probably just fine anyway. [He won't be working there after his General Manager receives the letter I'm going to write.]
So my question is -- was the fluid damaged or degraded for even the 30-60 seconds while it was too hot? Should I flush the transmission fluid system and replace it with fresh fluid? Is there anything else I should consider doing? Again, I stopped as quickly as I could when the alarm began ringing but it did take another 30 seconds of driving to get to a flat place out of the way of the other vehicles?
Thanks for any advice.
P.S.: For now at least, don't ask me to call the dealer service shop. I called them before doing my homework on WF and the clown said he'd never heard of the HOT OIL light and, if the warning went away, everything was probably just fine anyway. [He won't be working there after his General Manager receives the letter I'm going to write.]