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Hopefully some of those people who claim the car will blow up if you replace the fluid realize it's not rocket science. The 8HP is not any different from almost any other modern automatic in terms of fluid change. You drop the pan, replace the filter, re-install pan, level fluid, get up to temp, refill/level.
Fluid actually doesn't look bad. Makes sense though, since you're only replacing about half of the fluid so the other half needs to last to 120k miles. If you've already gone to the trouble of jacking up your car and leveling it out, you might as well just wait until the fluid comes up to temperature. I like doing my own work but I don't know enough about every little thing to be confident in forgoing a specific step outlined by the manufacturer.
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