Yes, that's a vent hole. If there is too much fluid, as it heats up, it can spill out of that hole.
of course it does but just being in range is Ok?Doesn't the 6AT have a dip stick? Just check the dip stick.
This.If there is too much fluid, as it heats up, it can spill out of that hole.
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@Ghsouri , your situation has all the indications of an ATF overfill causing this problem.
@BLCKFLSH is correct. If all that fluid puked out the vent, and the ATF level was good afterwards, you were overfilled.
- Too much ATF, upper surface in contact with moving parts that the fluid in the sump should not be touching.
- Anti-foaming agents in the ATF can only do so much (incidental contact), you start getting air-entrained ATF
- Air-entrained ATF does not exchange heat at the cooler near as well as fluid ATF ... so ATF in the sump gets hotter, and expands, and the air entrained in it expands a lot
- Foaming, expanding ATF makes further contact with moving parts, heats more, expands more, pukes out the vent (that round, black "rubber cap")
You may have wrecked your load of ATF by thermal stress. Possibly. Since you don't mention the color of the ATF, and your car never stopped working (it just leaked out this stuff), you may be okay.
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But did he perform the level check procedure per the owner's manual? (as mentioned by @WiiMaster earlier)Then he filled with 8L oil.
Good catch! If the ATF was overfilled, who's to say the engine isn't also overfilled.Do you know the engine oil level?