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Originally Posted by Jimmert
I think montr already made the right comment. The oil level in the oil pan should only be flush with the engine RUNNING. That's why it originally came out gushing through the fill hole. When the engine is running, oil is sucked from the reservoir to the torque converter which leads to an 'normal' filled oil pan. Once you shutdown the engine, oil seeps back to the reservoir that makes it look like it was overfilled (and it can exit throught the fill hole). This is absolutely normal.
In all manuals it says clearly that the final top-up is with a running engine, else you underfill your transmission, like in your case.
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Thank you. Embarrassing on my part, but it so happens that the documentation I was looking at did not mention this. I favoured the document over the YouTube videos.
Fortunately, I haven't driven it much. It was about 3km and 5 minutes, low speeds 50kph. Do you think this caused any problems? Shifted very well.