2018 Tacoma TRD Sport Transmission Issues

Have any of you had any transmission issues with your 2018 Tacoma TRD Sport? I’ve taken mine to the dealership 3 times to get it checked out only to come out of there with no solution.

Issues:

• Gear hunting
• Truck jerking
• Loud clicking noise and tugging when I put my truck from park to drive
• When I merge onto the freeway and I step on the gas, my truck pulls back and suddenly pulls and takes off meanwhile my RPMs go crazy and engine sounds like it has a lot of stress

 

No issues with my transmission.

 

Turn up the stereo

 

(Toyota Corporate)...."that's normal"

 

How long have you owned the Tacoma and what did you drive before this?

 

3 times to the dealership and no solution ?
did the dealer say anything to you or did they tell you its working normal ?
might be time for a 2nd opinion at a different dealership
Did they scan for codes ?

 

Totally normal

 

Gear Hunting, No, but I live in mostly flat land area and I use S mode mostly.
Truck Jerking, NO
Clicking/tugging, Are you on a slight incline/decline and not using the Parking brake?
Merge, the truck likes the higher RPM range, when I merge I will bump to S4 with ECT on and hammer down.

 

drive with ECT on and this issue solved.

 

It doesn't make sense that if it was that bad that the dealer wouldn't notice something .

 

That mostly describes the 1k break in period on my '17, damn near got me t-boned at an intersection with its craziness. Made me want to get my 2nd gen back but I ended up going with OVTune and have been pretty happy with the way the transmission handles itself now. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2016-toyota-tacoma-ovtune-1-05-tune-development-thread.495735/

 

Max torque is @4600 RPM and max horsepower is @6000 RPM. It knows what it’s doing. Let it.

 

No problems at all, on my 18 sport. 2yrs and 13K on clock.

 

Here’s the order of fixes

Drain and fill of transmission
Apply TSB
Ovtune
Gears

 

I’ve had mine for about a year and 5 months. Right now I’m at about 13,700 miles.

 

Did these problems just start?

 

I live on flat land as well and I always use my parking break but it still does that loud clicking sound.

 

Well funny thing is that before I go to the dealership I have all those problems. When I get there and have the technicians do a test drive, it doesn’t do it anymore. It doesn’t do it all the time but it sure does do it pretty often and it’s concerning.

 

Are you warming it up a bit before you drive it?

 

My '18 TRD Sport A/T preforms great. Seems the more the miles add up the better it shifts.