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[ems]

Hello everybody. I have a 2005 Corolla. Today my car did something very strange. I was going down a hill that I go down everyday. The hill is very high and steep to the point that your ears pop. Well I was going down the hill at a speed of approx 70 mph and I had my foot on the brakes. All of a sudden my cars RPM shot up to 5000 rpm and slowly went back down. It was very odd. It was as if the transmision had slipped but the problem is I wasn't giving any gas at the time. My foot was on the brakes. The only thing I can think of is that It all of a sudden downshifted to a gear that was to low. Has anybody ever heard of this? I hope I'm not already having tranny problems with a car so young. It already has 34,000 miles on it. Anybody have any ideas?

[Joe B]

Sorry I can't help you with your issue but I find it quite funny that you and the others on the bottom of the page Similar Threads all spelled weird wrong.
I'm not great at spelling either.

[ToyotaMan1281]

yes my guess is it shifted to a lower gear. Have you tried taking O/D off or shift to 2nd gear? save your brakes dude. 50/50 engine braking and foot on brake pedal

[AVANT]

Agreed. Downshift and Engine brake when you need to stop accelerating for extend periods of time. Riding the brake is unnecessary and bad for your brakes.

[ems]

I hope we are all right. It is still very odd. I've just never seen an automatic tranny do that before. One thing I did forget to mention is that my A.C was on but that still doesn't excuse the engine from going up to an RPM that high. It was just very strange.

[TRDwasiq]

nah its same thing my car does its not odd as he said was 70 when he slowed down the gear reverse shifted that happens alot to me
its not a big deal