TrailAlaska
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Only 23,000 miles on it but have had this issue from day 1. It's been in to Toyota 4 times now, each time they tell me nothing is wrong with it, they plugged into the computer, they drove it, reset the computer, etc.
#1-when driving down a gradual hill by my house I will let my foot off the gas as I approach at about 40mph (speed limit is 45) as I start the decent it takes off as if I have it in neutral, really picks up speed, it doesn’t try to hold back at all. When applying the breaks obviously will slow it down, but the minute I let off it continues back as if it's in neutral again. If you really apply the breaks it will down shift so low that the engine revs to almost 3,000RPMs – and it will stay in that gear for some time before it shifts out. It’s almost as if it is stuck and won’t shift back. I get that when you have to break to slow way down it should shift but not to the point to where the engine is rev-ing & won’t shift back.
#2-Going up a hill it doesn’t want to shift, it’s as if it has a delay, when it finally does shift to get momentum to go up the hill there is a what sounds like a clunk.
#3–Lastly... occasionally between 35/45mph the engine does little pulses. You can feel it & see the RPMs up/down, up/down. Eventually it will stop after you have been driving it a while. Choke issue maybe?
I know the shifting issues & pulses are not normal as the last 2 times I had a Toyota they gave me new 4RNR loaners. Each one did great on the hill, both up and down. They held back speed & only gradually picked up speed towards the bottom of the hill-which would be expected. Driving up hill, no shift issues-clunks, & no pulses. They even had a different feel driving them. Thoughts/Help!!!!
#1-when driving down a gradual hill by my house I will let my foot off the gas as I approach at about 40mph (speed limit is 45) as I start the decent it takes off as if I have it in neutral, really picks up speed, it doesn’t try to hold back at all. When applying the breaks obviously will slow it down, but the minute I let off it continues back as if it's in neutral again. If you really apply the breaks it will down shift so low that the engine revs to almost 3,000RPMs – and it will stay in that gear for some time before it shifts out. It’s almost as if it is stuck and won’t shift back. I get that when you have to break to slow way down it should shift but not to the point to where the engine is rev-ing & won’t shift back.
#2-Going up a hill it doesn’t want to shift, it’s as if it has a delay, when it finally does shift to get momentum to go up the hill there is a what sounds like a clunk.
#3–Lastly... occasionally between 35/45mph the engine does little pulses. You can feel it & see the RPMs up/down, up/down. Eventually it will stop after you have been driving it a while. Choke issue maybe?
I know the shifting issues & pulses are not normal as the last 2 times I had a Toyota they gave me new 4RNR loaners. Each one did great on the hill, both up and down. They held back speed & only gradually picked up speed towards the bottom of the hill-which would be expected. Driving up hill, no shift issues-clunks, & no pulses. They even had a different feel driving them. Thoughts/Help!!!!
