Not sure if this is an issue or not. Just wanted to poll all you Type-S owners to see if your vehicle is acting the same.

I've had the car (Automatic) for a few months and hadn't noticed this, but when at a dead stop and accelerating normally, the engine revs loudly until it hits 2nd gear at ~ 3000rpm. Then going from 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th, I can feel a definitely 'hard shift' throughout the car.

My question is do you guys definitely feel the shifting between 2nd, 3rd and 4th throughout the car? Or is can this be a possible transmission issue?

BTW, I had an 05TL and didn't notice this at all. The shifting was very smooth.

 

I have an 08 type S and so far mine shifts smoothly...

 

In full auto it's pretty smooth. I've really got to pay attention to count 3, 4 & 5.

 

what do you mean by that?

 

when you say smoothly, you can't FEEL the car shifting at all?

 

I mean I can feel it, hear it and see it (on the Tachometer), but I've got to pay attention.

1st --> 2nd is easy to feel/hear by the engine and revs. 3rd --> 4th --> 5th, under light to moderate acceleration, is smooth and quiet enough that I'm often not sure if it is in 4th or 5th, since I didn't pay cloes enough attention to count through the gear changes.

 

nope, mine shifts smoothly, i use the sport shift often

 

Mine shifts very smooth going up, it's down that kind of irks me now and then.

For some reason, the ECM does not do a very good job of matching the engine speed to the wheel speed when downshifting to second. Every other gear it's dead on with little "clunk" or jerk. Kind of weird. I mean going down into 1st it does an amazing job in my opinion for the cost of the car, they just didn't get second gear right. It's got to be a timing issue and I wouldn't be surprised if they had a service bulletin on it. The IS we used to have had the same issue and they prompted one on it that took care of the problem.

This is on a 07' Type S and of course the description is using the manual mode.

 

I notice "hard shift up & down" and j-series tranny's don't have the best track record.It scares the sh*t outta me.

 

Yikes, that's not good. I feel that it revs quite high going from 2nd to 3rd. The engine is loud. Seems to shift too late or something. Not smooth.

 

I feel shifts, but it's not hard. It downshifts a little hard between 2nd and 1st if you're coasting.
Otherwise it's not CVT but it's pretty smooth.