Hey, what's going on? Welcome back or welcome if this is your first time here. Today we're going to be checking the automatic transmission fluid on a third generation Subaru Forester. The Forester here that we're working on is a 2010. If I'm not mistaken this should also work on an Impresa and Outback, most other Subaru's of this era. So what we're going to do now I'm going to flip the camera around. I'm going to show you where the dipstick is located and then I want you to follow along because there's a process you need to follow to accurately check your automatic transmission fluid. So let's flip this camera around. Let's take a look at where it's located and then it gets work, all right? So I got my light here. Got a nice bike cruising by. All right so let's take a high level look, right? Here is the overview. That's a nice bike. Here's the overview of the entire engine, okay? As you can see so you got your washer fluid, coolant, oil, all right let's zoom in and let's get in a little closer. Let's go to the back. It's kind of tough to see deep in there, okay? It's going to be down into the left of the brake fluid. So here's the brake fluid. Reservoir, look down here. It's deep in here, all right? Wait down in there. All right so what you're going to do is I'm going to run you through the process on what we actually have to do to accurately check the automatic transmission fluid, all right? So stick around. Okay so here we are, we are inside of the farester. So we're going to put the key in the ignition. You want to do this with the vehicle running preferably with the engine warm. So let's turn it on. And I'm going to let this run for a few minutes, let the engine warm up and then we'll jump back in here and I'll show you what we have to do to check this automatic transmission fluid. All right we've had the car running for quite a while now. I got the engine nice and warm, all right nice and hot and what we're going to do now is check it out. You're going to put, you're going to engage your parking brake. Pull that on, put your foot on the brake, all right? Put your foot on the brake and you're going to go through your gears. I have to put it in reverse neutral. Drive this way up shift down and then we'll go back around. I will go here here here. All right and now we're going to head out to the engine, compartment to the engine with the engine still running, all right? So make sure it's in park, make sure your parking brake is on, then take your foot off the brake, all right? Now let's go check it out. Okay so for this you're going to want some paper towels, all right? So you can obviously check the levels and we're just going to go in here and get some gloves on. It's kind of messy up in here. We're going to reach in, pull that one, clean it off, always do it wipe it off, all right? Let's stick it back in. Now we're going to look here real quick too. I'm going to show you this. Let's zoom in on here. Let's zoom in here. Okay there we go. All right let's take a look here. So let's look. You've got cold low, cold full, hot low, hot full, all right? So if your engine's cold we're looking down here, your engine's hot. We're looking up here, okay? Right there. So let's check it out. Engine's hot. But it's sit there for a moment, pull that out. We check it as you can see here. My farster is not in good shape, all right? I am at even low for cold and this engine's hot. So what we're going to have to do is I'm going to do a quick top off. I'm going to top this off and then we should be good to go, all right? So that's how you check the automatic transmission fluid and the Subaru farster. Okay so I just want to be really clear about one thing real quick before we wrap everything up here. How I said I'm going to top this off with automatic transmission fluid. Now the only reason I'm doing that is because I know why the transmission fluid is low and that's because one of the clamps on my return or intake line for the transmission fluid is really loose and I've identified the leak. If you don't know why your transmission fluid is low and it's as low as it showed on mine, call mechanic, call professional, have them take a look because I'm no expert and I'm not going to tell you fill it all the way back up if there's something else that's causing that leak, right? So if this video helped make sure you think about hitting that like button it'll help get some more views, get some more attention, we can do more videos and definitely think about hitting subscribe and turn on those notifications. I'll talk to you guys later. If you have any questions drop them in the comment. Take care of each other, be kind, peace.