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Originally Posted by Linck
The people that know me know that I am pretty "familiar" w/ cars.
I did have a friend of mine who is a certified mechanic drive my car and he also felt the hesitation.
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Well, I would disagree with some of the other folks above -- it sounds to me like your car has "throttle by wire" (as all of the new Camrys do), and your car is operating entirely normally compared to all of the cars the rest of us have. Then, it sounds like you've "made a federal case out of it, and them some," instead of driving the car and either getting used to how throttle by wire responds to your inputs, and/or allowing the transmission to adapt to your driving style. "Only drove it on weekends," eh?
I'd agree with your dealer that there's probably nothing wrong whatsoever with your transmission. Check out our "hesitation" thread, if you have't already. Sure, sure, OK, all right, you know a lot about cars. So does your certified mechanic. The bottom line is that the computer-controlled throttle and the computer-controlled tranmission don't respond quite like the mechanical systems you and your mechanic are probably used to operating. That's not necessarily a "problem," and you can try to get a thousand new transmission replacements, but this
is how they normally operate.
To restate what I've already described in the recent "hesitation" thread, any kind of "hesitation" issue has totally disappeared with my car -- either I've learned how to operate the vehicle in order to get it to respond the way I expect it to, or its adaptive transmission has "adapted" to me well enough to operate the way I expect it to.
I would recommend that you simply go out and drive your car. Give it a three months and then see if your "problems" have simply withered away after that time. And, if you're finding yourself so frequently in situations where you've got to essentially "punch it in panic mode," well, I tend to think that most of those kinds of situations can be avoided. Sure, there are true "panic situations," but if that's the kind of thing you're routinely doing just to move about in traffic, well, just give that some extra thought.
Probably not quite the sympathy you expected to get from a bunch of fellow forum folks? Well, it's simply the fact that, "Yep, that's what our cars have done, too." But we're starting to learn how our cars' computer systems work, and we're finding that our hesitation issues are going away, again, as we have either simply learned how to operate the throttle in order to get the response we expect, and/or the adaptive transmisson has indeed adapted to our driving styles. It sure sounds to me like that's one thing you haven't given yourself -- and your car -- a chance to do. So, that's the solution I would recommend -- drive the car. And if you're only going to drive it "on the weekends," well, then count about 15 weekends = one month. But
drive the car for "three months," and see if you and your car can't just learn how to work together to your best benefit. Or, just bail out of the thing as best you can, and find something else -- but just make sure it doesn't have "thottle by wire." Again, I think your dealer is very much telling you the truth -- this is a different technology compared to the old mechanical systems, and the transmission probably
is working entirely normally, in conjunction with the throttle-by-wire system.
