"Slipping" Transmission?
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Re: "Slipping" Transmission?
I'd probably still experement with the transmission fluid though - we had the same problem in our 2003 Civic Hybrid with 65000 miles. Every time we started the car from a complete stop there was a "lurching" like a slipping clutch.
Switching out the fluid in the CVT seems to have helped smooth over the problem.
Switching out the fluid in the CVT seems to have helped smooth over the problem.
#12
Re: "Slipping" Transmission?
I've run into this slipping feel after a stop on several different Priuses back when I had Zipcar in Boston, so at least 5 different ones all varying between 1000 or so miles (never was first to a new one) and 20000 miles. I think it really is just a matter of the electric motors switching directions.
I haven't hit it in the Prius I now own since I last posted, but maybe it's because I've been driving these things so long I avoid the hard-stop/hard-go series of events that trigger it.
I haven't hit it in the Prius I now own since I last posted, but maybe it's because I've been driving these things so long I avoid the hard-stop/hard-go series of events that trigger it.
#13
Re: "Slipping" Transmission?
Mike,
I had a similar problem with my 2006. When I read that you had recently installed the after-market EV only switch, that clicked with me. These symptoms began right after I installed that as well. So, I remived it and the symptoms are gone!
I can only surmise from the info posted here that the EV circuit interferes with the operation of the electrical motor somehow. This is NOT a good thing, obviously!
Samuel
I had a similar problem with my 2006. When I read that you had recently installed the after-market EV only switch, that clicked with me. These symptoms began right after I installed that as well. So, I remived it and the symptoms are gone!
I can only surmise from the info posted here that the EV circuit interferes with the operation of the electrical motor somehow. This is NOT a good thing, obviously!
Samuel
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