ANH10 2.4 Recommended Source for Servicing Spares.

[devonia]

Hi, I've never had an automatic before - or anything like my lovely Alphard.  Can I ask you for some advice, before I attempt my first major service?

I've tried to find "jap spares" as the servicing parts thread suggests - but not joy (well, a surfeit of jap-spares).  Can anyone point me in the right direction?  I gather that I will need to buy the transmission fluid from Opie. That's fine.  Unless someone will sell that fluid, plus the plugs and all the replacement filters? I have oil and the sump plug washer, so far.

 

Oh, is there a simple guide where all these filters are located? 

 

Finally, I do have a dipstick for the transmission fluid. At least, that's what I think that it is! It's not the motor oil one.  I'm assuming that there is a "sump plug" for it, that may take the same washer as the motor oil one. I was planning to drain it out, pour in a little less than the amount that the handbook mentions, then do a short run to warm it up and then top it up to the dipstick mark. Is that a good plan?  I've read threads about flushing and having to remove a sump.....

 

Any help,  much appreciated. Or, if you know a reasonably priced garage that would do all this for not a huge amount - near Tavistock - please do tell.