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Have a brand new engine and turbo in my 150 Prado after old one was destroyed by garage not doing up the oil filter.
It's done 7,000 klm on new donk but the question is about my transmission. Funny things going on during first few miles. It took 1000 klm for the cruise control to figure itself out and work properly (I didn't use it to run in but tried it during that time). Now it's settled down and as good as original.
But the auto trans is not. Most of the time manual shift of the auto works well. But it seems when you need it most is when it misbehaves. Coming down a steep grade, knock it into "S" and it immediately drops into 4th as it should. Pull it back to 3rd and it will often go into neutral (LCD display says "3") you can feel the car accelerating away, opposite of what you want and it can take up to 4 seconds for it to engage third.
Going into 2nd, similar story. Sometimes it will even go in initially just for a second, drop into neutral and then engage properly in anything up to 4 secs.
All gear selections mentioned above are done well below maximum speeds for down shifts so that's not the issue.
When mentioned to the mechanics they suggested as the transmission has "electronic learning", it may take time to settle down as everything was disconnected for the engine swap.
I reckon 7,000 klm is plenty.
Is this something that can be adjusted, say by Toyota themselves or by an Auto specialist?
It's done 7,000 klm on new donk but the question is about my transmission. Funny things going on during first few miles. It took 1000 klm for the cruise control to figure itself out and work properly (I didn't use it to run in but tried it during that time). Now it's settled down and as good as original.
But the auto trans is not. Most of the time manual shift of the auto works well. But it seems when you need it most is when it misbehaves. Coming down a steep grade, knock it into "S" and it immediately drops into 4th as it should. Pull it back to 3rd and it will often go into neutral (LCD display says "3") you can feel the car accelerating away, opposite of what you want and it can take up to 4 seconds for it to engage third.
Going into 2nd, similar story. Sometimes it will even go in initially just for a second, drop into neutral and then engage properly in anything up to 4 secs.
All gear selections mentioned above are done well below maximum speeds for down shifts so that's not the issue.
When mentioned to the mechanics they suggested as the transmission has "electronic learning", it may take time to settle down as everything was disconnected for the engine swap.
I reckon 7,000 klm is plenty.
Is this something that can be adjusted, say by Toyota themselves or by an Auto specialist?
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