On my recent camping trip and even on many early morning roads trips I have noticed some odd AT behaviour.
It is my understanding that the AT won't change up to 5th gear until it has hit a certain temp (which seems illogical to me given that holding fourth increases revs a reasonable amount at 90km/h plus) around 65° from memory.
On my most recent camping trip my AT held fourth at 110km/h (3k revs) on level ground for almost two hours! My scangauge was reading AT temp=85°-90° (code manually entered from scangauge thread on PP) for the majority of that time and cruise control would not activate (I'm guessing it is linked to the use of 5th somehow). Is it in anyway related to the water temp for optimal cooling purposes because I noticed it would engage 5th once water temp hit 90°?
This is incredibly frustrating when you're on a long distance road trip and you are chewing through fuel like nothing else. A mates GXL 120 5 speed AT has no dramas initialising cruise control straight away with no warm up.
What exactly is going on with my rig? I have tried all sorts of little tricks to try and get it to engage 5th earlier but nothing has worked. Is it a possible software error?
Any ideas?
It is my understanding that the AT won't change up to 5th gear until it has hit a certain temp (which seems illogical to me given that holding fourth increases revs a reasonable amount at 90km/h plus) around 65° from memory.
On my most recent camping trip my AT held fourth at 110km/h (3k revs) on level ground for almost two hours! My scangauge was reading AT temp=85°-90° (code manually entered from scangauge thread on PP) for the majority of that time and cruise control would not activate (I'm guessing it is linked to the use of 5th somehow). Is it in anyway related to the water temp for optimal cooling purposes because I noticed it would engage 5th once water temp hit 90°?
This is incredibly frustrating when you're on a long distance road trip and you are chewing through fuel like nothing else. A mates GXL 120 5 speed AT has no dramas initialising cruise control straight away with no warm up.
What exactly is going on with my rig? I have tried all sorts of little tricks to try and get it to engage 5th earlier but nothing has worked. Is it a possible software error?
Any ideas?
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