storm

Has anyone noticed the tranny hanging onto a gear? I was driving on the highway today with the display showing the current gear. I had the ECT/Power button enabled, and hit the gas. The tranny downshifted to 3rd, but even after I eased off the the throttle, it didn't immediately go to 4th, 5th, or 6th. Take my foot off completely and accelerating again appeared to make it go away. This in on a 250.

Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Tuxlex

This is normal on my IS350 when in ECT Power mode. If you nail it, it will
take a bit of deceleration for it to shift up again from third.

storm

So it's normal for it to hold third? It was weird, it just stayed on third, until I decelerated a bit and then it was back to its normal self. I had a hard time reproducing it, but the first time I accelerated through the on ramp, so 1st, 2nd, hit 3rd and held it.

shaolin

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another thing is bothering me is when you are going down hill and you tap the brake, the car will shift down and stay down. the thing is when you want it to go back it won't. it's similiar to your situation but on different road condition.

ONEdirty23

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I think this is normal, mine does this with third and fourth gears, depending on how fast I'm travelling. Normally if I hit it and it hangs onto the gear, i'll let off, give it a little throttle and let off and it will upshift to a normal gear. I turned off the ECT pwr button and tried this again and it didn't hold onto the gear. Keep in mind ECT is more of a sport version driving, so the ECU is thinking you're wanting to keep going at full throttle/agressive driving. Kills mpg but it is fun haha

jcreech

That is ECT pwr mode for you! Start learning when and where and what speeds the car will shift up or down. Its an automatic, but you still can learn when your car will shift.

Kermee

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Normal.

Cheers,
Kermee

RCFormante

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Yep ECT PWR mode is very aggressive.

storm

Thanks, the IS250 is my wife's car, so this is the first time I noticed it hanging onto a gear. Kinda scared me at first, but I feel better about the whole thing.

Sigh ... things are so much simpler with a manual tranny

linh811

change the display to anything but gear indicator and you won't notice

Kailua250

It will shift back up if you give it a slight amount of gas for about a second or two.