Liqui Moly Top Tec ATF 1200

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Multi-vehicle fluid for stepped automatic transmissions, meeting GM Dexron III-H, Ford MERCON V, Chrysler ATF+4 and Toyota T-IV requirements.

Classification
Product line Liqui Moly Top Tec ATF 13 oils
Base oil hydrocracked
Intended use gear and transmission
JASO class
Approvals
Meets the requirements of What an approval means
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 36.4 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 6.9 mm²/s
Viscosity index 150
Pour point -48 °C
Flash point 230 °C
Density 850 kg/m³
Pack sizes 0.5 L, 1 L, 5 L, 20 L, 60 L, 205 L

The car maker has not officially approved the entries in the “Meets the requirements of” row.

Description

Liqui Moly Top Tec ATF 1200 is a JASO 1A fluid made from hydrocracked base oils for stepped automatics, manual gearboxes, steering and hydraulics. It holds no official approvals; the manufacturer lists only specifications it meets.

These include GM Dexron III-H, Ford MERCON V, Chrysler ATF+3, Chrysler ATF+4, Daimler NAG-1, Toyota T-IV, Aisin Warner JWS 3309, Hyundai/Kia SP-III, Mitsubishi SP-III, Mazda ATF M-V, Allison C-4, MB 236.5, MB 236.6, MB 236.9, MB 236.10, MB 236.11, ZF TE-ML 03D, ZF TE-ML 14A, ZF TE-ML 17C, VW G 055 025 and Volvo 97341.

Typical figures: viscosity 6.9 mm²/s at 100 °C, pour point -48 °C. Pack sizes from 0.5 to 205 litres.

Application

Stepped automatic and manual gearboxes, power steering and hydraulic systems in European, American and Asian cars and commercial vehicles.

Worth knowing

Where the documentation demands an approved fluid, this list is no substitute for an approval: more than fifty codes are recorded as a Liqui Moly recommendation. Top Tec ATF 1100 is approved to ZF TE-ML 03D, 04D, 14A and 17C, Voith H55.6335.xx, and MAN 339 Type V1 and Z1, while here the same codes appear without approval. The MB 236.1 sheet is not in this list at all, whereas in 1100 it is an approval.

The codes do not carry over in the other direction either. Ford MERCON V, Chrysler ATF+4, Toyota T-IV, Hyundai/Kia SP-III and Aisin Warner JWS 3309 are absent from the 1100 list. Lines like these make 1200 a universal fluid, yet all that backs them is the word of the fluid’s maker, as the article on the long specification lists on an ATF can explains. Nearly equal viscosity at 40 °C, 36.4 and 36 mm²/s, does not make the fluids close: at 100 °C it is already 6.9 and 7.5 mm²/s, and the viscosity index is 150 and 180. For the Honda ATF Z-1 line the data sheet adds the caveat “except CVT”, so it does not apply to CVTs.

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