Check it out and find out if one driving style is worse for your tranny than another.

Be sure and participate so we can get a better feel of which driving styles has produced the greatest percentage of tranny failures.

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/show...6551#post816551

RUF

 

1. Harsh acceleration from a stop.
2. Changing from higher gear to lower gear during in high speed.
3. Frequent use of SS.

 

I agree with 1 and 2, but why would Acura make 3 available if it was not good for the transmission?

 

i agree with 1 and 2(somewhat)
but SS is definately not a factor because if anything the computer cushions the shifts even more, meaning more power loss and less shock

 

I'd say 1 and 2........and 3, if 1 and 2 while doing 3 (confused myself there for a sec). Seriously, none of the following will hurt your tranny unless you do it repetetively, beating on your car endlessly.

 

We can omitt #3 IF acura's SS transmission is as good as german's SS transmission. As of right now, acura dealers are on back order of transmission replacements.

 

Okay folks. We are getting more posts to the Poll out at the CL Forum, but not enough yet.

As it stands, leaving it in Auto mode (D5/D4) is showing more failures so far. Of course that could be due to more people driving that way.

RUF