And ppl always say women can't handle tech... (I do not mean that men can't. Neither do I mean that women can't)

And today you learned not to have your boyfriend work on your car. It could have been worse....

Those are some unusual euphemisms

Yay my second FML posted! He was trying to do something nice. I wasn’t really that mad. He drove to the store and bought me more transmission fluid so we were fine. He’s a sweetheart, my oil never got changed though haha.

Okay, I'll come to boyfriend's defense, depending on the make and model it is an easy enough mistake to make, particularly if you've never heard of a transmission having it's own drain plug. Also, it's probably not ALL of the transmission fluid. It's typically only a two or three quarts that can be emptied out of the drain plug (as opposed to a full-scale flushing of it) and can probably still be driven in a pinch. At least to the nearest service station (unless you live out in the middle of nowhere). I did the exact same thing with my Pontiac Vibe/Toyota Matrix (same car, different badge). Didn't realize it until after I hit the highway and my tailpipe started poring out white smoke since the engine now had too much oil in it and the acceleration pushed the issue. The transmission had been acting up a bit, but being a new driver I didn't think much of it. The mechanic balanced out the fluids to where they were supposed to be and everything was fine, no significant damage done.

I hope you took your car to the shop after, just in case. Usually it’s not so straight forward to completely refill a transmission, there are sometimes bleeding procedures to be observed. And then don’t let the boy touch your car again. It sounds like he has two left hands and doesn’t do well with stressful situations, since he forgot to put the drain plug back in. Especially do not let him touch safety critical components like the brakes and ABS unit ...

I think you and I dated the same moron. Mine only realized he had drained my transmission fluid when he went to dump it and it was the wrong color. So he poured it back in and hand tightened the cap that took him break away to loosen in the first place. He then decided not to tell me about it because he was sure I wouldn't figure it out with my tiny female brain. I leaked transmission fluid all over the city for about a week before I finally got the truth out of him in time to take my car to a real mechanic and save myself a total transmission overhaul.

leave automotive work to the professionals. people dont know wtf theyre doing... that mess up could have costed you thousands

He shouldn't be nice if he doesn't know what he's doing. Some people have no business under the hood of a car

Lol, is he new to work? That's a kind initiative but he doesn't know what he's doing at all.