Transmission Clunk TSB L-SB-0042-25 (7 Viewers)

[Roman]

I started at 16, right after I was around 20-21, settled around 18.6. Every refill now shows >310 miles? When before it was like 298.
I’ll take every mile

Still impressive, I haven't had enough driving since the update to notice myself...
If it does work, I'll take it!

 

[GMan93]

Want to come back and say after having driven a bit more and given the transmission time to re-learn a bit after the update and reset it's much much much better than it was...my clunky 3-2 shift seems almost non-existent now, maybe very occasionally still does it if the right circumstances happen when stopping but more sound wise and not really something you'd feel/notice if the radio is on. The car coasts 1000x better and seems to stay at a fairly consistent RPM level when cruising/up to speed now vs all the gear hunting it was doing before. All-in all a worthwhile update that makes the car drive a lot more like it should have to begin with.

 

[Bluegill]

I also noticed that highway cruising & coasting is improved with less aggressive downshifting. I have previously bitched a lot about how the truck slows itself down so aggressively when you want to coast - for instance, when you're exiting the highway onto a long off ramp. Here in AZ we have some off ramps that are a mile long, or feed onto frontage roads that run for miles. I know that the northeast has exit ramps that give you about 15 feet before you have to crank a hard right 270-degree turn (California too). But out here you can exit the highway at 80 mpg and coast for a long time. I always thought it was absurd that I had to keep shoveling coal onto the fire to make it to the end of an off ramp.

I just did about 400 miles this past week and I noticed a healthy MPG improvement (14.5 indicated which is more like 15.6 corrected for my larger tires). This included going from 1440 feet in elevation to 6800 feet plus over 120 miles of off-road, rocks, mud, climbing, etc.