1. Park your car on level ground and start the engine, leaving the gear in neutral or park. Wait for the engine to warm up. Unless your owner's manual directs otherwise, allow the engine to continue running throughout this procedure.

2. Find the ATF dipstick, located at the back of the engine. The ATF dipstick is often shorter than the engine oil dipstick but otherwise looks similar. If you're lucky, it will be labeled.

3. Pull on the dipstick and completely remove it. It may be very long.

4. Wipe the dipstick with a rag, replace it in the engine, push it all the way in and remove it again.

5. Look at the dipstick's tip. Observe whether there are two different full markings: one for cold readings and one for warm readings. If so, read the one for 'Warm.' If the ATF does not come up to the line marked 'Full,' add ATF.

6. Add ATF (see Tips) into the hole that the dipstick came out of (yes, that little tiny hole). Use a funnel with a long, narrow neck. Add only a little at a time, and check the level with the dipstick after each time. It's easy to add ATF but fairly difficult to take it out if you add too much.

7. Put the dipstick all the way back in when you are done.
today 7:30 am I checked our 2.2 TD's Automatic Transmission Fluid, when I got the dipstick out, I notice the level is at hot at first. but it doesn't count right? so I wipe the stick and dipped it again. Still it was at Hot Level. we didn't use the vehicle from 9:00pm last night.

this time, I Start the Engine * park mode for 5 Mins > I cleaned the dipstick out and put it back again. and now I see a barely touching Cold Level or barely see any fluid at all.

waited for 10 Mins, and checked again,.. Still barely see any ATF at all...

now, I turned the Engine off > then after 5 Mins, I checked the Stick twice and it's now * hot level...

so what's the right observation?

use the basis of checked level while Engine is at Idle?

or the basis of checked level after Engine is turned off?

any Ideas guys?