Quote Originally Posted by woohoo View Post
Right, but if you observe your car and remember at what RPM and speed it switches when:

1. accelerating slowly
2. accelerating very fast
3. accelerating moderately fast

then you won't have difficulty figuring that out. Experience is the best teacher, isn't it?



Sa manual naman ng Toyota vehicles, laging nandun yung "Do not continue to climb uphill in 2 or L, to prevent your transmission from overheating." (I paraphrased). Seems inconsistent with what happened to your cousin's Starex.
Sir woohoo I know that. Just wanted to post for the newbies. I find that entry in the Toyota manual odd. My Innova's clutch started to smell at 3rd gear while going up at about a 45% incline. The next time I went to the same place I slowed down and stayed in 2nd. The smell was gone.

*oj88
The Starex had 20Tkm on it, spent mostly on long drives in the South. Granted they were 80Kg each and there were 7 of them, hehe. If you use your a/t properly I don't think it should conk out that early. My oldest car has 240TKm on it and it still shifts smoothly.