Hi to everyone

I need an opinion about changing oil in my tranny.

car is a 540iA 1994 with the 5hp30 tranny.Runs perfect. car has 171000km. Tranny was changed at 100000km with a rebuilt one in 2000.As per previous owner.

I bought all the service part for the tranny, filter and gasket for oil renew but run into an expensive finacial problem!!!! The dealer in my country does not have the Esso oil. ZF changed the 5hp 30 oil in 2000 from Shell La36.... to Esso....as per ZF tranny chart.

Anyway, if i want to order the Esso oil, it will cost me over US$1000 dollar for 20litres(esso oil only comes in 20litre container)as per ETK.the tranny uses 13ltr. they dont have in stock. or i should wait them order for someone else and then buy part of the 20litre

So what should I do? any one has an opinion

Kentish
540iA 1994
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