2015 vs 16+ (1 Viewer)

[Redbull]

Almost 10k miles on mine, transmission feels good, was a little odd at first coming from the 7 speed in my S class.

The latter had this 5-4 downshift so damn hard it felt like a level 3 SMG V10 M5 full throttle up shift violently shaking the car - would happen once a month. I read about it and people just shrug their shoulders and say they all do that. Drove me nuts even paying less than half the price new, wouldn't bear it if new.

 

[Cruiserhead05]

Its not the transmission, number of “gears”, or even the ratios. Its the shift programming that sucks.

The combination of pedal learning modulation the ecu does, the comfort mode response map, and economy tuning makes it practically undrivable in city traffic.
The amount of pedal give is inexcusable. Then couple that with comfort shifting and fuel saving 7th gear target at city speeds and it becomes a literal joke.

If someone could substantiate the update id be ecstatic to be proven wrong. I bet its just the throttle learning reset that you felt, which by the way was not calibrated properly at the dealer. That much i can assure you of. You would have to rent out an airstrip to do it properly.

Sure it drives great on the highway at highway speeds. It will downshift quick enough and there is torque available (albeit not enough for me really to brag about) but its there. Its everything in between I'm talking about. Im curious where yall do most of your driving to actually enjoy it. Im usually in comfort mode in town due to road surfaces but i keep the trans in S.

Just put my pedal commander in my ‘16 LX570. I’ve had very good experience with this previously on other vehicles where throttle mapping did not seem proportionate to pedal input.

Tomorrow will give me more time to edit this post, but I’m happy to report that initial impressions appear to have resolved the very “mushy” pedal that I feel the truck had before.

My pedal commander settings are probably middle of the road so not aggressive at all, and the truck is much more responsive off the line, where the issue was most apparent to me.

UPDATE: Commuted ~50 miles to work this morning with mixed driving conditions. As hoped/expected, the mapping is much better and feels how it should in stock form (in my opinion). It now feels more linear and frankly it feels on par with my old '09 200 and '13 Tundra. Prior to this, the LX felt comparably under powered and I was less confident pulling into traffic or merging unless I mashed the pedal.

For reference, these initial impressions are based on the truck in "Normal" mode, but Pedal Commander in "Sport", +1 (picture shown below).

The only downside is that it exacerbated the harsh 1-2 shift on heavy acceleration. Hopefully the TSB for this issue will resolve it.