Liqui Moly Top Tec ATF 1600

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Synthetic fluid with official MB 236.14 approval for those Mercedes-Benz 7G-Tronic seven-speed automatics that need this specification.

Classification
Product line Liqui Moly Top Tec ATF 13 oils
Base oil synthetic
Intended use gear and transmission
Approvals
Manufacturer approvals What an approval means
Meets the requirements of
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 28.7 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 6.45 mm²/s
Viscosity index 188
Pour point -45 °C
Flash point 206 °C
Density 850 kg/m³
Pack sizes 1 L, 5 L, 20 L, 60 L

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

Description

Liqui Moly Top Tec ATF 1600 is a red, synthetic transmission fluid for Mercedes-Benz 7G-Tronic seven-speed automatic gearboxes that require an MB 236.14 fluid. It is also backward compatible with older Mercedes-Benz five-speed automatics and certain transfer cases with the same requirement.

The fluid holds official MB 236.14 approval; the manufacturer states that it meets the requirements of MB 236.12 without formal approval.

Typical data-sheet figures: kinematic viscosity 6.45 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 188, pour point -45 °C, flash point 206 °C. Pack sizes from 1 to 60 litres.

Application

Mercedes-Benz 7G-Tronic seven-speed automatic transmissions, older Mercedes-Benz five-speed automatics and certain transfer cases, where an MB 236.14 fluid is required.

Worth knowing

Among Liqui Moly fluids in the catalogue, MB 236.14 is recorded as an approval only here: in Top Tec ATF 1800 and 1800 R this sheet, like MB 236.12, is among the fluid maker’s own recommendations. The article on universal ATFs explains what a sheet number on the can means when it has no entry in the Mercedes-Benz list.

The words “seven-speed automatic” alone are not enough to choose by. Top Tec ATF 1900 was also developed for Mercedes-Benz seven-speed gearboxes, types 722.9 and 724.2, but it lists MB 236.15 and shares no codes with this fluid. The figures differ as well: its viscosity at 100 °C is 4.4 mm²/s against 6.45 here, and by Brookfield at -40 °C no more than 10,000 mPa·s against 20,000 mPa·s. The Top Tec ATF 1900 data sheet also forbids mixing it with oils of other specifications. The Top Tec ATF 1600 data sheet, for its part, refers to the unit maker’s instructions, so what decides is the sheet number in the vehicle documentation, not the number of gears.

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