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Jan 21, 2009 | 08:40 AM

#16

lexus114

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From: Bethlehem Twsp. Pennsylvania

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Originally Posted by thomas1

I feel the constant city driving is the culprit. Seems the folks with lots of highway miles get much better life out of their transmissions. If you do a lot of city driving say under 45mph deselect overdrive so the transmission isnt constantly searching for overdrive...May or may not help. Where is live my wife does nothing but, and in the summer it really can get hot here, I would tend to believe she would be considered servere conditions for the car.... My neighbor had exact same car, but did mostly highway and her transmission lasted to 168k miles, mine went 100k with 30k mile fluid changes before the failure. Now I change it every 15k or less.

Well,as I mentioned before,If the torque converter would lock up in 3rd gear,I would use it with o/d off a lot.

Last edited by lexus114; Jan 21, 2009 at 08:57 AM.

Jan 21, 2009 | 09:28 AM

#17

thomas1

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From: Sacramento, California

I notice mine goes into overdrive well before 37mph....I think Lexus was trying to program in fuel economy...

Jan 21, 2009 | 09:52 AM