You drive it like you always do, it's gonna try and match your driving style. Guys on the Tacoma sub forum say a couple of tanks of gas. Just let it do it's thing and drive your car normally.

 

When I bought my Camry, it seemed like 12k miles before it decided
how I drive. At low speed, in traffic, I don’t really care for it.
Accelerating on freeway, shifts great, accel to 80-85 mph and it holds
for about 5-8 seconds and settles in to cruise mode. I love the way
it cruises.
What do I think the weak link is in this car? The tranny. Otherwise,
Toyota hit a home run with these trd cars.

 

I was resetting adaptations on my 2018 every week. Seemed it would fall into it's sleepy/lazy shifting in about 2-3 days of driving. I know 2018 transmissions were exceptionally bad. I couldn't take it anymore and I traded it in for 2023 hybryd and now I'm happy.

 

I would maybe see if there is a firmware/software update for your car/transmission. The dealer finished mine today, updated the software and reset the memory (plus flushed the fluid and changed it) and it drives better. Shifting is a lot smoother (drove it about 150 miles combined city and highway after the change). There is still occasional shuttering but mostly if I, say, speed up and then slow down quickly, and then speed up again for example, but I guess this may just be a characteristic of the 8-speed as it did this when it was new too. But for the most part, for me, the reset and fluid change seems to have helped quite a bit.

I guess we'll wait and see how this pans out though as I've only driven 150 miles on it today and will need to probably wait for a few thousand miles to see if it retains its overall shift strategy which I think is quite good now post service.

 

My wife's 2020 Camry AWD transmission was much better then mine, so they did improve. Hopefully it will work for you.

 

If you're replying to me, yes I do see an improvement, but again, time will tell. I think though that mine may have developed some bad "habits" due to my driving when I first got the car and it has not exactly adapted properly until it was reset, so maybe this time around, it will be better.

 

My issue is that there are days, and by days I mean instances of driving where the car feels very responsive and agile and days where it feels almost sluggish. I wish there was an additional “toggle” where you have the option of “daily drive” mode or “sport” mode. Meaning a choice of two “learned shift points” and other settings,… one for when you are trudging through mind numbing traffic on a Friday and the other when you are illegally racing your buddy a quarter miles before a speed trap.

I don’t live that the car always ends up with a “learned” program that is half 5 mph traffic and half vroom vroom.

 

Question: does the PCM stop at a point after a few tanks as far as learning or does it continue or “check back” at certain points?