Gear at Speed Question: 7AT

Jordo!

4th and 5th are great cruising gears, but downshifting to 3rd at, say just over 2K initiates a throttle blip whereas and just under it's perfect -- at least based on my style of driving.

On throttle at lower speeds 4th will be okay, but throttle off even for a second at low speeds and it will insist on being in 3rd gear, which may mean accidentally dropping to second -- too low a gear.

It's an infrequent issue for me, and not the end of the world, but it strikes me as a bit of design or tuning flaw considering the comparatively wide practical range of use for the other gears (except 7th, which is pointless unless highway cruising at sustained high speeds.)

3rd gear is perfect for slow residential streets where you go over speedbumps and the like -- it will just hold the gear and have plenty of grunt to get moving again.

I wish we could turn off the automatic down shift with UpRev. Be interesting to see whether or not the engine would really stall out if it were left in 4th at the "wrong" speeds. 4th is kind of a limited gear with a narrow range of practical use it seems.

I'll have to compare gear ratios -- I bet 3rd and 4th are just a little too close together or something.

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