Rough transmission shifts

[Vidman]

my trailhunter just turned 2000 miles. The only time that the tranny makes a clunk is when I shift it from drive to reverse without coming to a full stop.. other than that it shifts perfectly all the time. but time will tell if the tranny goes south

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[BAQ717]

I get at most 3 hard shifts when the transmission is cold and then it’s very smooth. Not uncommon for modern 8ATs. The ZF in my BMW did the same thing. Definitely not a reason to forgo buying the truck IMO.

 

[TacoFreak]

Even though I don't like it a lot, hard shifts seems to be how these transmissions work and how they were designed. I get an occasional hard shift out of park and into drive or reverse when first starting my truck. After that it is smooth as silk. Lots of 8-speeds in other Toyota vehicles have the same issue, so they have to think this is normal.

 

[izzy]

Feels like a beefy truck transmission to me.

I understand the MSRP gets wild on these but it's still a truck.

The guys complaining about the ride quality of the 4 link models have clearly never owned a truck before LOL cause it's gonna ride like a truck even if it's 4 link or not.

It's never going to be a 3 series or something (even then ZF8 are clunky bastards sometimes but very good transmissions). No matter how much it cost you it'll never ride like a car, even if it costs more than cars that ride very well lol. But you wouldn't take a 3 series where you take your Tacoma right? Isn't that the whole point?

I dunno, my first vehicle ever was a 1993 Toyota Pickup 2WD with no AC but the 5 speed (wow!) still drove it all over the bay and to LA once. I'm convinced anyone complaining about the Tacoma clunkiness or ride quality needs to go drive an old truck first then drive the new Tacoma and you'll see nothing has really changed LOL

 

[izzy]

Just go buy a used X7 (costs the same as a Tacoma) You can tow your toys around and complain when the ZF8 occasionally does a weird shift

But at least you'll be comfortable over bridge expansion joints...

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