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04-30-2012, 09:29 PM | #601 |
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I guess mine was not built on a Friday afternoon at around 4:45pm
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05-01-2012, 07:50 AM | #602 | |
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Presume a CVT car. Hatch, sedan? When was your car produced and what miles are on it? Wow.
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05-01-2012, 08:52 AM | #603 | |
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I'm not doing anything crazy guys, just "hypermile" driving within reason, no jackrabbit starts and trying to maintain 60 mph on the highway,which is tough to do in the NY tri-state area sometimes. Here's my new personal best from yesterday: |
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05-01-2012, 03:38 PM | #604 |
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REPEAT FROM OTHER MILAGE THREAD:
ECU flash with the updates in the TSB were ran on my car today. I can already feel a difference in driveablility. I no longer feel like the car is fighting me when I try to accelerate. I guess I just thought it was "normal" before and that's how CVTs behaved. I can definitely feel less engine braking. Previously on the highway I'd have to paddle shift down to get enough pick up to pass someone quickly. That's no longer needed. I took a few videos this morning of the RPM/accelaration before the update & then a few after. I'll post those tonight after work if I can get them edited. As far as fuel economy I can't help but think this will show at least some improvement. Won't have numbers until my next fuel-up but from the gauge so far I did notice slight differences. After a short highway trip at 32 MPG on the gauge and once on the city streets, the stop and go didn't pull that # down as quickly as it did before. Previously, with such few miles on the Trip gauge, after a highway run, the city stop & go would pull a figure from 36/38ish down to 22 on the gauge in a short time span. But today, from the 32 on the highway at first, the city streets only pulled that down to 29. The city stop & go feels smoother now too. Too soon to tell, will give this a few tanks & post as I see more numbers. Hope this helps & I'll try to get vids up tonight. |
05-01-2012, 04:10 PM | #605 |
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Good luck with everything Man.
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05-01-2012, 04:40 PM | #606 | |
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05-01-2012, 04:46 PM | #607 | |
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I really wish I had the changes on the 2K+ road trip I just went on. The CVT was really racey on the highway (just resume cruise control when going uphill, the engine can rev to over 5K and the hills aren't even very steep). |
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05-01-2012, 05:18 PM | #608 | |
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Make the call! |
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05-01-2012, 05:41 PM | #609 | |
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05-01-2012, 05:55 PM | #610 | |
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05-01-2012, 05:58 PM | #611 | |
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05-01-2012, 06:06 PM | #612 |
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I took delivery in March. I would assume that the issues were fixed with taking delivery when I did but I definitely feel like the car has way too much engine braking on down slopes & there's a decent amount of drop off in acceleration after the car hits 40 mph from a stop with the same amount of gas applied. The drop off in acceleration is very common with CVT's once you hit a certain speed & it's probably normal but I wanted to make sure. But when I'm going down a hill and my RPMs jump from 1500RPM to 3500RPM to slow me down it's too excessive & I don't think that's how it should be. I was hoping these TSB's were the answer these issues. I think calling SOA would be a good idea to see if my car would've been affected.
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05-01-2012, 06:13 PM | #613 | |
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i haven't had a steep hill yet, but i have tried the hard acceleration thing (relatively speaking) and i can hold 3600ish rpm well past 40mph in mine (built Feb 2012)...but for lower rpms 3k and below, i do sense a sort of tail off in rpms after i cross around 40mph. ps. took delivery early april on a feb 2012 build car...but i lucked out in a 3.5 week wait so i don't know if my delta between build and delivery is the norm. |
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05-01-2012, 06:45 PM | #614 | |
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05-01-2012, 06:48 PM | #615 |
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i call my dealer to schedule and appointment for the 3 TSB: TCM, ECM, and key hole. Then I called SOA to try to confirm my car falls within the VIN's affect by the TSB. i didn't get an answer, their tech guys werent there. well i told the guy on the phone that the TSB were released in january and my car was built in november. they said they have to check.
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05-01-2012, 06:52 PM | #616 | |
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as i noted, i haven't had any real issues in driving my car pretty gently so far in the first 850miles. i can't wait to hit my 1k mark to try doing a little more normal stuff like revving it beyond 4k and taking a cruise control highway trip to see what kind of mileage i can get from the car. |
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05-01-2012, 06:53 PM | #617 | |
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05-01-2012, 07:47 PM | #618 |
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yep, it isnt centered properly
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05-01-2012, 08:10 PM | #619 |
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Yeah, I saw the TSB for that when I had a techinfo subscription. Found the fix amusing... it's basically "go to the hardware store, pick up some round felt self-stick floor protector pads, open up the steering column and stick one here"
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05-01-2012, 08:56 PM | #620 | |
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If they could pinpoint felt circle locations to fix my few rattles, I'd jump for joy! |
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05-01-2012, 08:56 PM | #621 |
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That is basically what you do to fix rattles, you insulate the pieces making noise. Even when I installed the remote start kit, it had you wrap the tiewraps I used with foam sticky tape.
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05-01-2012, 09:03 PM | #622 |
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well manual calculation today...got 33.5 to the gallon overall.....HB, Limited, CVT, with 11,700 miles on it mostly hwy driving with the 53 mile one way daily commute....80/20 hwy city ........
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05-01-2012, 09:24 PM | #623 |
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That's great! Do you feel it's getting better with the higher miles?
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05-01-2012, 09:34 PM | #624 |
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Mine is not broken in yet and I am getting close to 32MPG watching the MPG guage and I am sure once I let it break in completely it will be better, I also swapped the 17" with 18" MOMO GT-R's and the 225/45/18, I drive 50 miles each way 4 days a week to work and back home, so it's mostly highway miles, I have about 1,400 miles on her now. I had her now for about a month or so. Very satisfied so far, it appears to be getting better with the higher mileage, tranny is a lot quieter CVT is weird. Remember guys it has to be synthetic oil @ 3,000 miles as per the owners manual. |
05-01-2012, 10:28 PM | #625 |
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video as promised
Here's a link to the video.... trying to get up 60mph, not a 0 to 60 test by any means, but a rapid acceleration just to specify. After the update, RPMs still drop, but differently. Before the update, they'd drop down to around 1500 RPM right at 40mph and I'd have to give the car more gas to continue accelerating. After the update, they drop down at 50mph instead but only to about 2500 RPM allowing me to still keep accelerating without leveling off or having to give it more gas.
This may seem marginal, but the most improvement I can note is in engine braking. That's VERY noticeable to me. Also, coming off the stops in the city from one stop sign to the next, this doesn't seem like as much "work" for the engine and my city #s aren't pulling down my average MPG like they were previously. Hope this helps. |
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