Tranny neutral?

[Road Warrior]

Just cracked 36 K on my 06 V6 SRF 4X4 (and just recently purchased a Platinum 6/100K- whew! )

Anyway, I was stuck in slow traffic in Grand Rapids, MI yesterday and noticed that when just crawling along 10-15 mph, when I would gently step on/feather the gas the tranny seemed to be in NEUTRAL until the rpms picked up a bit. It was the first drive of the day...and about 40 F, not at all cold in our world. Other than that I have not had any issues and the truck has been flawless. I did buy it with 25K miles on it.

Is this normal? Any suggestions? Off to the stealership?
Thanks

 

[Kmvreter]

Perfectly normal. My '04 V6 has the 4 spd tranny. It does it and I can repeat it every time because I have to make a right-left-right series of turns (that have some space between them) in my sub. As I come out of the first turn it will find 2nd gear and I accelerate but then have to let up to make the next turn. That's when it upshifts to 3rd. As I accelerate to come out of this turn it will look to downshift to 2nd gear. It revs up a bit until it catches the gear. It will do this (hot or cold) at low RPM. I can stop this by planting the tranny in 2nd gear if I want to but I've gotten used to it after 3 years.

 

[Road Warrior]

Perfectly normal. My '04 V6 has the 4 spd tranny. It does it and I can repeat it every time because I have to make a right-left-right series of turns (that have some space between them) in my sub. As I come out of the first turn it will find 2nd gear and I accelerate but then have to let up to make the next turn. That's when it upshifts to 3rd. As I accelerate to come out of this turn it will look to downshift to 2nd gear. It revs up a bit until it catches the gear. It will do this (hot or cold) at low RPM. I can stop this by planting the tranny in 2nd gear if I want to but I've gotten used to it after 3 years.

THANKS for the reply!

 

[CannondaleMan]

Likely related to the computers.

The reason I say this is that we had an '07 Highlander and the transmission would take a second ro two to catch the gear when you slowed by taking the foot off of the gas or braking then coasting.

Explanation that I researched showed that apparently the computer is anticipating a downshift (apparently) and thus when you actually step on the accelerator it takes a second for the computer to change into this.

It is these damned "smart" transmissions that are supposed to sit and learn a person's driving style to adapt to it. The software gets all screwy when you have a different driver or something different happens.

At least that is what my theory is based upon my research last year. Sounds good to me anyway.