My Opinion & Thoughts: 6AT vs 6MT

Thanks. That should make four hours on 84 interesting.

 

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for...rds=25&requestId=2281868035&clickType=listing

 

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for...rds=25&requestId=2281868035&clickType=listing

 

Thanks. That’s a nice truck.

 

Looks like 2 in stock within 400 miles of your location, but there are several 23 that have stock photos probably on the way. The other one I posted is 2k off it looks like.

 

I found one. Flew up yesterday morning; drove home through 480 miles of frozen fog, snow, light rain, and more birds of prey than I've ever seen. Mule deer, antelope, a badger, a snow hare, and the largest elk buck I've been within 30 yards of. Strange first trip with the truck but it handled great and I am convinced of the benefits of manual transmissions for deceleration in the mountain west. Thanks for everyone's advice.

 

Congratulations and enjoy it I know I am mine!

 

Agree on the usefulness of MT 5th.
After the last few KDMAX tunes, 5th pulls so well it has become my old 4th, even for some languid I-70/80 passing.

 

Nooo Doot Aboot It

 

I mostly use my gears about the same post-tune as I did for the few weeks before I had the tune. I tried KDMax and opted for OTT, but that’s besides the point. They were similar in performance. I didn’t feel any real “power gain” from either tune, just mostly that the throttle response was vastly improved.

I find 5th really nice for 65-80 mph cruising in busy traffic where I’m switching lanes and picking up and losing speed a lot. If I get slowed down to 65 or less, I usually kick it down to 4th just to have a better ability to pick up speed again if I get slowed down beyond that point.

 

I would hope whoever designed this tranny engine combo is gainfully unemployed. This is the only thing I don't like about my truck. (actually despise). Other than that it's a great truck.

 

What drivetrain are you talking about?

 

The 3.5 with the auto tranny. I get why they programmed it the way that they did. And to honest it really does what they (Toyota) wanted and achieve good mileage. I just hate the way it shifts some of the time. It reminds me of a lazy person. Just get to 6th as fast as possible and not down shift until it absolutely has to. But by then it needs to down shift at least two more gears then would have been necessary had it just downshifted earlier. I call it the "hurk a jerk". It's not the end of the world but annoying at times.

 

it's the stupid government-mandated CAFE standards. ruining the joys of driving.