Transmission Oil Cooler

[Demon]

Hi All, first time here.

I am considering towing a caravan ( about 1600kg GVM only). Will I need to fit a transmission oil cooler?
F2 TD4 SE Auto
Thanks

[354 chamberlain]

Demon
The auto freelander 2 has a trans oil cooler already and it works well .Recantly I was cleaning up my rural block about 100ks out of Darwin and carting scrap steel in my tandem trailer .Sat on 100ks most of the way and with the GCM 100kg under the 4000kg limit for the FL2 . Temp gauge sat steady where it always does and engine and trans handled the load well .Also tow an off road camper at 110 for hours at a time while travelling along Stuart highway and the temp does not change
Doug

[mikehzz]

The transmission heats up pretty quick on a long crawl up a steep track in mud ruts. I've had to stop numerous times when the warning sounds to let it cool down. I don't know if that is applicable to towing though.

[Meken]

We tow a 1.6t campervan and I've never seen anything different to normal and I don't ease off just because the van is back there (it's funny to see the commodore drivers frown when they are not outpacing you away from traffic lights when you have a van in tow)

[multiLuke]

Driving some local tracks last week, i plugged the OBD reader in and fired up the Torque app. I noticed the engine and transmission temps high compared to normal but the temperature gauge on the dash hadnt changed (which was a bit concerning). Normal driving about 80C but using mud and ruts setting on the tracks it was up to 93-96C. Not that steep or difficult track either.
Any idea of normal operating temperatures for 4WD use?

PS - I hit a rather large hole which the left hand wheels of the car hit and after this the terrain response started to play up. Turning on and off then said fault before behaving again. No fault codes read though which was a bit confusing.