PRECAUTIONS
TM-7
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[TRANSMISSION: GR6Z30A]
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The gear shift is
not performed
or slow.
The continuous manual shift is not accept-
ed.
The excessively fast continuous gear shift is
prohibited for safety reasons. The gear shift
that can be accepted during the gear shift is
only the next gear shift.
Take interval time to
continuously operate
the paddle shifter.
Shift lever operation is denied when parking
the vehicle on a hill with the accelerator
pedal depressed.
Shift lever operation is denied when parking
the vehicle on a hill with the accelerator
pedal depressed to protect transmission
from being damaged.
When parking the vehi-
cle on a hill, fully de-
press the brake pedal to
operate the shift lever.
The gear shift in R mode of the M range is
slow.
The predictive pre-shift control provides a
waiting gear selection focusing on the full
sport driving. Therefore in normal driving, it
takes time for changing the waiting gear
and the gear shift time may be prolonged.
R mode of the M range
is basically used in sport
driving.
No automatic upshift occurs in R mode of
the M range.
In order to provide the operation feeling of
manual transmission, no automatic upshift
occurs like manual transmission.
Upshift manually or use
in Normal mode of the M
range.
In Normal mode of M range, 2 speed gear
shift is performed for one manual upshift.
Normal mode of M range performs the au-
tomatic upshift when the specified engine
speed is reached. During the automatic up-
shift, if a manual upshift intervenes by the
paddle shifter, a total of a 2-speed gear shift
(1-speed automatic gear shift + 1-speed
manual gear shift) is performed.
If the automatic upshift
is used or a manual gear
shift is done a little earli-
er, 1-speed gear shift
can be attained. Or, R
mode of the M range
without automatic up-
shift is used.
While driving in the A range, after the vehi-
cle is accelerated for merging onto a free-
way, for example, the automatic upshift
does not occur soon after the accelerator
pedal is released.
When the vehicle is accelerated rather hard
for merging onto a freeway, or runs on a
ramp curve with side G applied, the adap-
tive shift control works to activate the gear
hold status in which no gear shift occurs for
a certain period of time. This symptom stays
longer in R mode than Normal mode.
Waiting for a certain pe-
riod of time deactivates
the gear hold status. Or
upshift manually.
During a sudden deceleration, no automatic
downshift occurs.
During a sudden deceleration, if a tire lock
occurs, the actual vehicle speed cannot be
judged (the vehicle body moves, but the
wheels stop), therefore the appropriate
gear can no longer be selected. For safety
reasons, a gear shift is inhibited.
With a certain period of
time after the tire lock
disappears, an automat-
ic gear shift to the appro-
priate gear is resumed.
An upshift near the engine rev limit causes
a drop of the drive power.
A manual upshift near the engine rev limit
may activate the engine over-rev protection
depending on the timing and lower the en-
gine torque. Therefore, an upshift at this
timing drops the drive power.
This symptom can be
eliminated by upshifting
a little earlier.
Shock generated by gearshift is great.
Shift shock varies depending on how the
accelerator pedal depressed during a gear
shift. Because the tuning allows an increase
of the shift speed as the accelerator pedal
travel increases, the shift shock also in-
creases.
For example, start the vehicle with the ac-
celerator pedal fully depressed, as the vehi-
cle speed increases, shift up to 2GR, after
that release the accelerator pedal and shift
up to 3GR. In this case, compared to 2GR
to 3GR shift shock, 1GR to 2GR shift shock
feels larger.
To prevent shift shock,
drive with gentle accel-
erator operation.
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