how smooth is your transmission?

[ezwinner701]

I have a 06 Aero SS and I just love the torque especially when i'm driving 60+. But I have some problem in the lower gears, it is not very smooth when I decelerate. I have taken it to a dealer before and they reset all the settings and seems to worked a bit better but sometimes, when going into 2, 3 and 4 gear, RPM goes to the high 4's. is that normal? The problem isn't "that" big, so I'm not sure if the dealership can replicate it to fix it. any thoughts?

[ANTMAR]

There are a few posts on the 06 transmission I believe - search and you may get more info there.

Do you have an auto or manual? You mentioned decelerate - like from 4th to 3rd to 2nd etc?

There is definetely something going on but the question is "is it normal". I have the 6 speed manual - and I swear when am slowing to a stop and I push the clutch in and move my foot to the break between 3rd to 2nd - the car surges forward - the rpm's go up and it adds pressure to the breaks just before the clutch fully disengages - so I have to apply a bit more break pressure then when it all goes away you stop abruptly - I am pretty much used to it and the car runs great in all gears accelerating and is pretty smooth - bit stubborn when it gets cold. I haven't even addressed it with my dealership - exercise in futility it would be.

[turbulence]

my opinion (2005 9-3 arc) is that our cars think too much and try to "protect" us or the motor (not sure what it's intentions are) in a weird way...i've noticed weird behavior, too. it's the whole drive by wire trionic 8 thing.

[DemiGuru]

On my end I have an '06 Aero 2.8T Automatic and I haven't noticed any transmission issues (thus far). I use both the Sentronic and the Fully automatic functions quite a bit.

Seems to be very smooth.

[kilo]

smooth enough, but i believe that the 'gap' between 1 & 2 is too small and betw 2 & 3 too small and betw 3 & 4 too LARGE and betw 4 & 5 too small. U notice this esp when U drive in the sentronic manual. It looks like this car does everything in 3rd gear.

[ANTMAR]

I believe the 2.0's use the T8 - the 06+ V6T use the Bosch.