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Originally Posted by MunkyPuke
We test drove the vehicle for a weekend before we purchased it. Most of our problems didn't happen until a) we had a cold snap and b) we put over a thousand miles on it. Only then did the paint begin to rub off and show a lusterous lemmon yellow paint job.  I still love the car. It just has it's quirks. |
That's a pretty lousy attitude, as this is NOT something wrong with your car.
It's just like your "creep" when you put it in reverse -- you're simply not understanding what your car is doing, and calling it a "problem," instead.
Once again, YOUR CAR IS CONTROLLED BY COMPUTERS. And these computers may choose to do things differently than you've experienced in any other cars you've ever driven. And they might even do things that you might think are opposite to what you WANT your car to do.
Your transmission is electronically controlled. Your throttle is electronically controlled. Your braking systems are electronically controlled. And so on. And they are all ultimately controlled by your main computer, the ECU, which has been programmed with a certain "agenda" or two -- "agendas" that might indeed make these systems do things in a way you don't expect from your previous driving experiences, or do things a bit at odds with what you're trying to do.
Mainly, these systems are programmed to do two things above all (or most) others:
1. To reduce emissions.
2. To increase fuel economy.
So, these systems rev your engine high when you first start it, to warm up the engine as soon as possible, which will help it reduce the high emissions made during the usual start-up and warm-up times. And, these systems will shift the transmission in ways that you may not have experienced with any other car.
The six-speed automatic transmission is definitely different than most anything anyone has ever experienced before -- how many of us have ever driven six-speed auto transmission cars before?? That puts more gears, which are more closely spaced, under the control of the car's electronic systems. And, again, the systems are going to use the transmission to reduce emissions and increase fuel economy, to the best extent they can. So, yes, the transmission might well do a downshift to match RPM with the speed you're going, and there just isn't anything wrong with that at all. After a while, you should be able to understand your car better, and come to expect that it operates just a bit different from cars you've driven in the past. I sure encourage you to give the car a chance for you to understand it better!
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