When you check the fluid level hot, make sure you follow the instructions that I posted.

Getting the fluid hot and putting it in all gears before checking the level fills up the various parts of the transmission so you can check what free fluid is in the sump.

When my two girls lived at home and we provided them with 740s and later 850s, I required that they check fluids, tire pressures and lights every Saturday - if they did not they could not drive the car to school the following week.

Sadly, one girl married a Subaru tech ( once she visited me, and her old Subi was running rough - I found a plug wire shorting to the engine which I fixed - and the other told me that she had never checked the oil on her new Sub in the 6 months she had her new car!!!)

On all our high mileage Volvos, I checked fluids weekly - I looked at the transmission fluid cold - because I did this weekly, I could see if the stick looked the same each week.