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It's not unreasonable to want a nice driving experience. Toyota uses a learning ECU in the transmission (which is a large part of shitty transmission behavior in 3rd gen). That would explain why the behavior is changing after X amount of miles. It can be reset at the dealer, but it'll just...

I see a lot of people trying to normalize this behavior because it's a truck - except most other trucks don't act like that. Having spent time with ZFs in the Ram 1500 and Ridgeline, those transmissions are typically butter smooth. I've had more trucks than I'd like to admit, from Z71s to...

Good that it at least gets a little better with temp. The only thing that stinks about that is by the time it's warmed up and maybe shifting a little better, you're already where you need to go, and it's same thing on the way back (i.e. work). I traded out of the Highlander because of this...

I've been considering 4th gens, and I was looking into peoples feedback on the transmission beforehand. It's really unfortunate that Toyota keeps designing stuff this way on purpose. What's being described here is exactly what I experienced with a previous Highlander 8 speed. Super clunky 1-2...