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Old 08-17-2014, 09:21 AM   #492 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Cobb View Post
Hows the tranny assuming you got a stick shift? I had an 06, but shifting it was like moving a stick around in a bucket of gravel. After 40 thousand miles and grinding 2nd or 4th at least once a day was the last straw. That was after changing the fluid and going to a trd shifter. Never had problems with the old benz or geo I had.
Wait, so I'm not the only one with a crappy shifting Toyota C5x transmission? Before changing the fluid, it wouldn't even go into 1st gear unless I had rev matched it to within 100rpm.

I got pretty good at rev matching and timing my upshifts so that the synchros didn't have to do much work. Recently I've gotten tired of slow upshifting so I just stir the gravel extra hard. Oh and of course, I double clutch every single upshift and some of my downshifts too.
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