2008 GS 460 - Transmission Lag
#61
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Not going to lie here.... I'm mildly terrified of this happening to my 460, haha. Even though I have roughly half the miles on my car (38k), I knew damn well that the dealers here wouldn't jump through hoops for me like your dealership did with you. Excuse me if I missed this part, but did you hear any excessive knocking or see any blue smoke?
#62
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Not going to lie here.... I'm mildly terrified of this happening to my 460, haha. Even though I have roughly half the miles on my car (38k), I knew damn well that the dealers here wouldn't jump through hoops for me like your dealership did with you. Excuse me if I missed this part, but did you hear any excessive knocking or see any blue smoke?
#63
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UPDATE**
The dealer has performed an oil change with 0W-20. The wife drove it all weekend and so far no more issue. I am not saying this fixed it, but, we will see.
The Service Drive Manager says the oil messes with the knock sensor throwing everything off. Now I'm not a car guru but what does the Knock Sensor have to do with oil. I thought it reads air/fuel mixtures...not oil.
The dealer has performed an oil change with 0W-20. The wife drove it all weekend and so far no more issue. I am not saying this fixed it, but, we will see.
The Service Drive Manager says the oil messes with the knock sensor throwing everything off. Now I'm not a car guru but what does the Knock Sensor have to do with oil. I thought it reads air/fuel mixtures...not oil.
#64
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Having the same symptoms with my gs460 2008 transmission lag + hesitaion while acceleration.
I did change for :
- Transmission oil + filter.
- Spark Plug.
- Knock sensor.
- Fuel filter.
- Injectors cleaning.
- Cats removed.
- Throttle body cleaning.
But nothing change .
Note:
Using Castrol Magntic 5W-30.
I did change for :
- Transmission oil + filter.
- Spark Plug.
- Knock sensor.
- Fuel filter.
- Injectors cleaning.
- Cats removed.
- Throttle body cleaning.
But nothing change .
Note:
Using Castrol Magntic 5W-30.
#65
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Gs46046 - I hear ya. But the dealer is telling me that you can ONLY USE 0W-20. Since my last oil change that the dealer just did, as a process of elimination, the car has ran better until yesterday (day 5). Its not very noticeable but I can tell its about to start acting up again. I give my car about another week before it starts lagging again.
#66
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snoball, what part of town are you located at? If you don't mind me asking. I am in the Humble area and I would like to meet with you sometime and have you to test drive my GS460 if you're OK with that. The reason I would like you to do this is because I'd like to hear from your past experiences to my car if it's having similar symptom related in this thread. I owned it since 40K miles and currently has 95K miles, 0W-20 Mobile 1 full synthetic changes every 10K miles. Transmission fluid drains and refills @ every 25K miles. Original plugs.
#67
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snoball, what part of town are you located at? If you don't mind me asking. I am in the Humble area and I would like to meet with you sometime and have you to test drive my GS460 if you're OK with that. The reason I would like you to do this is because I'd like to hear from your past experiences to my car if it's having similar symptom related in this thread. I owned it since 40K miles and currently has 95K miles, 0W-20 Mobile 1 full synthetic changes every 10K miles. Transmission fluid drains and refills @ every 25K miles. Original plugs.
#68
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Sure thanks snoball for considering to check out my car whenever you have time ... I really don't buy that "lifetime" transmission fluid from either the manual or the dealer said for this particular vehicle or else, I just do my best to hope for a long lasting, less headache and more enjoyable driving.
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