Hi all, Planning to do a full service on the Selecta soon, and want to change the gearbox oil.

The Fiat dealership service manual and Haynes suggest using CVT gear box oil, fair enough, but I can't find any of the stuff for love of money.

I've been recomended to try and find out what oil viscosity it is and see if I can get some using the viscosity as a guide.

I've tried Halford and Rapid Part (not sure if they're just a regional company to my county) and they haven't got any, and nor are they able to get it.

Would normal Automatic gearbox fluid / oil be good enough, I personally think not because of the fact that a CVT gearbox works very differently to a conventional automatic. And the last thing I want to do is buggar the gear box up.

Many thanks, Jon.

Choose a good quality " Dextron 3 " Automatic Transmission Fluid ( ATF )

There is also a filter in the sump and you may require a new sump gasket. See the Eper for details.

Empty via drain plug in sump, refill ( slowly ) via dipsick tube.

Level should be checked with engine running at tickover, whilst at normal operating temperature, with lever in " Park "

Rgds, Petel

you should use the correct cvt oil from what i have read
am soon to try and resurect the selecta i got off ebay
there is a link on here to an internet site that sells it
Tutela cvt oil

Micra K11s have CVT auto boxes... loads of them about so maybe same oil?

http://www.shop4parts.co.uk/index.cfm?action=catalogue.list
£5.25 Litre

OMG. Just googled CVT gear box oil as I'm still searching for some and look what appeared in 3rd place.

Before I bought Selecta I spoke with friend from Fiat Panda Club in Poland. He use Selecta for long time and he said that it's very important to use oli for CVT gearbox. It must be good with higher temp. then normal automatic gearbox. He said that Nissan's got similat gearbox and they also got some type of oils...but I don't know which one is good in UK's shops...
Generally - oil is very important, then filter and clean job!! Before start chenging oil and filter you must be sure that everything around is clean without dust and sand...

Just to update - I managed to get some 'CVT' gearbox oil today. £9 for 1 litre. Going to shop around for the price of 5L from Fiat, or buy it from the place I got the 1L from for £39!

Not cheap stuff. But if its whats needed then its what I shall get!

Most Easterly Panda's said:

The Fiat dealership service manual and Haynes suggest using CVT gear box oil, fair enough, but I can't find any of the stuff for love of money.

Many thanks, Jon.

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I was in Mervyn Stewarts parts dept on wednesday and they'd shelves full of the stuff!

Weird...

Jim

e505jpy said:

I was in Mervyn Stewarts parts dept on wednesday and they'd shelves full of the stuff!

Weird...

Jim

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Didn't happen to see any prices did you?

FL Selenia has a CVT transmission oil design specifically for fiat running with CVT .
The Tutela CAR CVT N.G.

http://www.flitalia.it/en/fl/component/option,com_dspcatprod/Itemid,254/

This is what I've got. Cost £38.49 for 5L.