diff --git a/src/auth/oauth2client.ts b/src/auth/oauth2client.ts
index 2b752f2f..2ee1e2bb 100644
--- a/src/auth/oauth2client.ts
+++ b/src/auth/oauth2client.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import crypto from 'crypto';
 import * as http from 'http';
 import querystring from 'querystring';
 import * as stream from 'stream';
-
+import * as messages from '../messages';
 import {PemVerifier} from './../pemverifier';
 import {BodyResponseCallback} from './../transporters';
 import {AuthClient} from './authclient';
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ export class OAuth2Client extends AuthClient {
   refreshAccessToken(callback: RefreshAccessTokenCallback): void;
   refreshAccessToken(callback?: RefreshAccessTokenCallback):
       Promise<RefreshAccessTokenResponse>|void {
+    messages.warn(messages.REFRESH_ACCESS_TOKEN_DEPRECATED);
     if (callback) {
       this.refreshAccessTokenAsync().then(
           r => callback(null, r.credentials, r.res), callback);
@@ -605,7 +606,7 @@ export class OAuth2Client extends AuthClient {
         throw new Error('No refresh token is set.');
       }
 
-      const r = await this.refreshAccessToken();
+      const r = await this.refreshAccessTokenAsync();
       if (!r.credentials || (r.credentials && !r.credentials.access_token)) {
         throw new Error('Could not refresh access token.');
       }
diff --git a/src/messages.ts b/src/messages.ts
index b8827ee8..ed08ce94 100644
--- a/src/messages.ts
+++ b/src/messages.ts
@@ -69,3 +69,13 @@ export const DEFAULT_PROJECT_ID_DEPRECATED = {
     'method instead.'
   ].join(' ')
 };
+
+export const REFRESH_ACCESS_TOKEN_DEPRECATED = {
+  code: 'google-auth-library:DEP003',
+  type: WarningTypes.DEPRECATION,
+  message: [
+    'The `refreshAccessToken` method has been deprecated, and will be removed',
+    'in the 3.0 release of google-auth-library. Please use the `getRequestMetadata`',
+    'method instead.'
+  ].join(' ')
+};
diff --git a/src/transporters.ts b/src/transporters.ts
index df39d7c6..5953972c 100644
--- a/src/transporters.ts
+++ b/src/transporters.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ export interface Transporter {
 
 export interface BodyResponseCallback<T> {
   // The `body` object is a truly dynamic type.  It must be `any`.
-  // tslint:disable-next-line no-any
   (err: Error|null, res?: AxiosResponse<T>|null): void;
 }
 
diff --git a/test/test.oauth2.ts b/test/test.oauth2.ts
index 8137b575..13fc4c71 100644
--- a/test/test.oauth2.ts
+++ b/test/test.oauth2.ts
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ import * as fs from 'fs';
 import nock from 'nock';
 import path from 'path';
 import qs from 'querystring';
+import sinon, {SinonSandbox} from 'sinon';
 import url from 'url';
 
-import {CodeChallengeMethod, GoogleAuth, OAuth2Client} from '../src';
+import {CodeChallengeMethod, OAuth2Client} from '../src';
 import {LoginTicket} from '../src/auth/loginticket';
 
 nock.disableNetConnect();
@@ -42,12 +43,15 @@ const certsResPath =
     path.join(__dirname, '../../test/fixtures/oauthcerts.json');
 
 let client: OAuth2Client;
+let sandbox: SinonSandbox;
 beforeEach(() => {
   client = new OAuth2Client(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, REDIRECT_URI);
+  sandbox = sinon.createSandbox();
 });
 
 afterEach(() => {
   nock.cleanAll();
+  sandbox.restore();
 });
 
 it('should generate a valid consent page url', done => {
@@ -714,6 +718,14 @@ it('should return error in callback on request', done => {
   });
 });
 
+it('should emit warning on refreshAccessToken', async () => {
+  let warned = false;
+  sandbox.stub(process, 'emitWarning').callsFake(() => warned = true);
+  client.refreshAccessToken((err, result) => {
+    assert.equal(warned, true);
+  });
+});
+
 it('should return error in callback on refreshAccessToken', done => {
   client.refreshAccessToken((err, result) => {
     assert.equal(err!.message, 'No refresh token is set.');