new 2013 prado vx 150 diesel gear box issues

[Corigator Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Corigator]

It seems the brake trigger was only on the older models. Cruise seems to do its own shift down if the speed rises above the set point.

[retroenduro Member Find all posts View Profile Close retroenduro]

i love this feature. Its as if you were driving a manual, you can keep a regular speed going downhill without riding the brakes. Its safer too as less likely to get brake fade. Who needs an auto lock up kit eh?

[r4ndll Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close r4ndll]

I love it and wish more cars had it, because that is what you do in a manual to prevent brake wear.

I use this a fair bit in my 120. But I also tend to drive my auto a bit like a manual and put the box into 4 or 3 on steep descents to get the engine braking. I always wonder what the brakes are like on cars I see with their brake lights on the whole way down a hill

[Steve M Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Steve M]

" I always wonder what the brakes are like on cars I see with their brake lights on the whole way down a hill"... Smoking hot and faded to the shit house. And probably end up with warped rotors to go with it, I too have oftened dabbed the brake so it cuts back or if need be same as yourself I drop it back manually.... Cheers Steve

[Pearl150 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pearl150]

Yeah only happens if you have hit the break.

[Cuvier100 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Cuvier100]

As said before, mine does it only when I hit the brake. I find it is an excellent feature.

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Hi Chrisq

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Hi Chris,
yes that what they do normal driving running down a hill with no accelerator depressed the car will drop a gear and use engine retardation. Just push the accelerator every so lightly and it with come back to 5 gear.
cheers

[lehencountry Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close lehencountry]

but it is also annoying when it dropes from 5 to 3rd gear at 100km/h and Refs go up to 3800.
In this Case I can only switch to manuell and lift it up to 4 or 5, whatever suits me more in that particular situation.
Applying more accelerator pedal has no effect to switching up when going down hill. Only when Street gets flat again, Gearbox (in D-Mode) will switch up again. same story when going up hill. Toyota´s Gearbox is in those cases the worst.
Have tested many other AT from other Brands, they switch much better, not so often (hectically) to make more use of the torque.