7 at owners

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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