7 at owners

burntz

The paddles work in automatic mode (stick in D to the right ) so you can change gears when you want, the indicator in the dash goes from D to whatever # gear your in and reverts back to D if you don't use a paddle again after ~10-15 seconds BUT ( the annoying to me part) it still (not rarely enough) does some gear selection while it knows you are giving it directions thru the paddle shifters by re upshifting just after I tell it to downshift (when throttle off coasting to stop) or rarely (but extra annoyingly) if it and you both decide to upshift it will skip up 2 gears in one go

still, 90+% of the time I don't regret going MT 350Z to AT 370Z.

zeeder

It's just about as easy to click the shifter over to manual and select the gear you want for engine braking and then you don't have to worry about errant upshifts!

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FPenvy

i only use manual mode on mine.

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cigarclifford

a friend of mine here in Northern California has a 7 speed automatic and as
well only drives it in the manual mode

He drives it like a animal and at 100,000 miles with zero issues on the transmission

Amazing how well built a 7 speed automatic transmission is

-Clifford

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FPenvy

it is an awesome piece of the puzzle to making the Z great.

i am at 51k miles and my only "issues" to date are within a few months of buying it i guess coming up a hill in traffic the ECU/TCM didnt like something and tripped safe/limp mode. parked it, shut it off,waited 5-10 min, started back up 100% animal ready to go again.

bright side is that there are a lot of safety catches that will do their best to keep the car in one piece lol

only other "issue" is end of last driving season if i let the car drop itself from 3 to 2 there was a slight "Clunk". did the fluid change and whatnot still slightly there.

HOWEVER after it sat all winter i drove it finally monday-wed. and it's all gone which leads me to believe that was a TCM/ECU error not mechanical.

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vtec to vvel

i agree about the 2>1 downshift statement. not sure if it does, in fact, damage anything going from 2 to 1, but this is my first auto. all my previous cars, including my 07 350Z, have been manual, and typically, the gearbox locks/prevents from going from 2nd to 1st, unless you're coming to a stop. i much rather be safe than sorry and never go from 2nd to 1st.

this happens once in a while. it's like an abrupt clunk and you're like

FPenvy

mine was doing it any and every time i let the car downshift itself from 3 to 2 when warm it clunked.

however when cold it didnt do it so i thought at first that my tranny fluid lost it's viscosity but even after the fluid swap it still happened.

but now after a few months in the garage i think the Z is behaving so it doesnt get put away again lol

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