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Yes, an automatic is way more $ to repair! And I have always been able to sell my old manuals myself - may have taken a week or two longer due to fewer people wanting one, but they always sold.
It will be very difficult to find a manual Camry, unless you are in certain parts of the country where they actually sold manuals, or if you are willing to travel a ways to get one. They did not sell manuals in my region, so I had to travel a bit to buy one.
All I can say is it makes a typical, mid-size boring car fun to drive, even if it is a mid-size Camry sedan. I really wish most other people (and especially my better half) would agree with me!
Good luck, let me know how it turns out or if you have any other questions.
Yeah, I think I may have to stay with my AT, but it's still ok. I basically like the car. As long as the thing lasts, I'm ok with it. I'd like to drive it 200,000 without any major difficulties.
Is it a good manual trans? Nice shifting, how's the clutch? I had a 1996 Honda Civic DX coupe with manual, and it was nice except the clutch was ambiguous, I'd stall it after five years driving it, and reverse was hard to get sometimes. But it was a nice head on the shifter, and slipped right into the other gears. $12,080 new. Still had the original clutch when I traded it at 273,000 miles.
Do you share the Camry with your wife, or does she have something else?
Thanks! All the best.
I wish you the best.
Just think of it as a part of the "pre-flight checklist".
Sounds and vibrations caused by the ABS, brake assist, VSC and
TRAC
œA sound may be heard from the engine compartment when the engine is
started or just after the vehicle begins to move. This sound does not indicate
that a malfunction has occurred in any of these systems.
So it's not a "malfunction," but it sure is irritating. Telephone customer care people don't have a clue!
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To answer your questions: It is a typical Toyota manual transmission, meaning it shifts very nicely, but throws are long. Clutch is great, no complaints. The only complaint is the drive by wire, which just about all manual transmissions have now, no mater who makes the car. It requires you to drive a little different than older manual tranny cars, because the computer keeps the revs up between shifts, even though you take your foot off the accelerator. I've driven other makes' manual trannys, same problem. "Rev Hang" is for keeping emissions lower.
Wife is not a manual transmission fan, so no, I do not share it with her.
Good to have someone put an end to to the worry about this "issue". And the noise is even described in the owner's manual!!
In the olden days it was the carburetor dashpot that kept the revs up with a rapid release of the gas pedal.
I disagree. I helped my sister to purchase a Sienna in 2006 and a Camry in 2010 and I think dealers in Dallas area are the worst compare to the NE dealers.
The price is usually higher plus they have too many nonsense add on like Lusterizing Sealant, Sealant Cleaner, Fabric Guard...
So what do you think, shall I go and check my transmission or I don't have problem?
Anyone have this TSB done on their Camry? If so did it fix anything or just make things worse.
Bill
my Camry is now at 8700 miles and runs a little better than it did but there are times when the "sluggish" transmission is still very prominent
thanks again
hope we all find a solution to this issue one day !
When you wish to shift out of park there is an electromechanical interlock that prevents you from doing so absent having the brakes firmly applied. That interlock system may be what you are feeling when shift out of or into "P".
Look in the owners manual for teh method that can be used to manually over-ride, bypass, the electric solenoid that locks the shifter into "P" and try over riding it manually a few times and see if that doesn't alleviate the movement restriction.
downshift hesitation wwest
Sluggish or a noticeable delay in downshifting for re-acceleration?
It seems to help a little. Acceleration is smoother during city driving. However, the downshift "almost stalling" sensation is still there. Overall, glad I got it but the fundamental problem is still there and is still bothersome. Hope this helps!
my problem is the downshifting so seems it would not help this situation at all
wish they would just "come clean" and admit they have a design issue
and fix it
I dont like the fact that we cannot check our transmission fluid (no dipstick)
anyway good luck
Also noticed the lurch in traffic. Occasionally the car will jump out from under me. It's almost caused me to rear-end a few people because it happens so quickly. I mean, seeing as we've all either driven or own one, I have the 4cyl and the thing drives like an effing v6 for crying out loud. Tap the gas even a little and you're flying. I love it, but when the lurch happens, I don't love it quite as much. I've also noticed that periodically (not all the time, but at least 6 times in a day of driving) it will hesitate when I brake. I'll have my foot slowly but steadily easing down on the brake to stop at a light or a sign, and it lurches forward when I'm NOT touching my gas pedal. That's the part that makes me the most paranoid considering Toyota has had past issues with the accelerator sticking, so I'm careful with it. I might make some people behind me angry, but I brake WAY ahead of time just to be cautious. Otherwise this has been a wonderful car. Nice features, sleek, comfortable, loud @$$ speakers lol.. Great car, just makes me nervous sometimes...
Rollback on a hill? Again, most (all?) new automatics do this. Have you ever driven a manual? Same procedure applies. Get off the brake and on the gas quick, or set parking brake. Or like I do with my manual transmission, use your foot on both brake & gas at the same time, so there is no lag between getting off the brake and on the gas. But since you have automatic, you could just use your left foot on brake when on a steep hill.
I don't think you have any problems. However, I will say I am glad I have my 2010 Camry with a stick shift!
As you coast down in speed with the gas pedal fully released this technique inproves FE. The engine is fully STARVED of fuel but kept turning above stall speed via sequentual downshifting of the transaxle as roadspeed declines. Once roadspeed is too low to sustain the engine RPM fuel flow is restored and the transaxle is upshifted to alleviate/reduce the engine load.
It's that final upshift that gives you the feeling of slight acceleration or "unbraking".
Look at your owners manual for a description of the ESes "hill-hold" technique.
With the advent of so much use of the torque converter lockup clutch it has been possible to make the TC much less robust, not as much drive, torque, to the driven wheels with the engine simply idling.
The hill-hold technique has now been widely adopted to combat the resulting "roll-backwards" (or forward) issue. On some models hill-hold will only be engaged with a little extra push on the brake pedal after coming to a full stop. Hill-hold uses automatic TC, Traction Control, braking to hold the car in place.
As a result, once hill-hold is engaged, you will often experience a slight delay in gas pedal engine response to give the brake system time to release.
Then there is the 1-2 second "re-acceleration" downshift delay/hesitation.
Remember that final coastdown full fuel cut final upshift...?? If you happen to try to accelerate just as the transaxle begins that upshift sequence then DBW will be used to delay rising engine RPM until both the upshift completes and then the required downshift can be completed.
There are quite a few instances wherein this "re-acceleration" issues raises its ugly head, delayed engine response to gas pedal depression.
Most because the transaxle has for some reason selected the wrong gear, or is in the process thereof, and now some driver action, "re-acceleration, say, requires the use of DBW to delay the application of engine torque until the proper, "newly" proper, gear ratio is estabished.
2. When taking off faster, shifting up seems smooth, but not always
3. When slowing down with foot off gas, gear downshifts with hard jerk into lower gear about 25 miles per hour.
4. When taking off easy, gear slams in hard into second gear shift sometimes.
5. Shifting up and down is not always smooth whether vehicle is cold or warmed up.
My car is one year old with less than 10,000 miles and is currently at the dealer. I'm told there is an internal transmission problem and the transmission needs to be dropped and checked out.
has anyone else have this problem?
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I think the Canadians and other none 50 state cars don't have the carbon filter and I was wondering if they had the same problems we've experienced
It largely adresses the knotty shifting, coast deacceleration and general smoothness.
Not sure of original date but it is a software update.
Dealer had tried many things, but this seems to be it.
I have an '11 with the harsh downshifting problem. Dealer would not apply the TSB because they said it did not apply and said it was a bad deceleration sensor and it would be $1150! No check engine light is on.
I have a 2011 Camry Le I purchased used in December with 24,000 miles. I drive about 500 miles a week and the only issue i have noticed is the transmission shifting up and down hard at times. While braking I noticed it because I had to adjust how I was braking to accommodate for the awkward downshift. I took it to the dealership because it has a 1 year bumper to bumper warranty. They test drove it and then performed a transmission fluid flush and fill to check for metallic pieces. The results were they detected no problems. I had a dashcam in the car for the entire service and the car did not actually act up while they test drove it. Since then I have further diagnosed the car myself and I think I located the issue. Around 1,000 to 1,200 rpm, if the car does not detect your foot on the pedal it will disengage what I think is the connection from the engine/transmission with the differential? Ive noticed when this happens the car freely drifts as if it was in neutral so it saves on gas during driving. How ever when it reconnects by accelerating (such as city traffic when I notice it the most) it will connect hard and accelerate hard causing the computer to seem confused and shift the gears hard or fumble the gears. I will be taking it to the dealer again next week for an oil change and tell them what ive noticed and maybe this could be a problem that could fix many camrys nationwide with the same issue.