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My car is officially broken

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ShawnD1 said:
It does the gear dance even when cruise control is on.

What's funny is when taking on big hills on the highway. You can't set the cruise control if the gear selector is in "2" but the cruise control will gladly drop down to gear 2 and run at 6000rpm for a minute straight when the car is in "drive"
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That's how it's supposed to work, dumbass.

Learn to drive before condemning the car. Total user error......or stupidity......or both.
 
ShawnD1 said:
True that it's a slow work day, but none of the stuff I post is made up. I really do own a crayola, I did own a civic, the civic was a fine car but it was t-boned, corolla is a fine car too but it's broken right now. Apparently I was loading the vehicle past GVWR this whole time because I regularly ride around with 4 or 5 people in the car, but GVWR only allows for 1000lbs of people+goods. Much of the driving in my city is up hills (cities centered around rivers are usually hilly), so the constant gear hunting + overloading is doing a number on the transmission. Solution is to either buy a better vehicle or stop bathing in hopes that fewer people are willing to ride in my car. I keep comparing it to the Civic because the two cars are often directly compared and because I treated that car even more harsh than I treat this one but it still worked 100% until it was written off in an accident.

One thing I was going to post earlier was how google searching for a car and "transmission failure" usually relates to automatics. For the Corolla, there seems to be a major problem with their manual transmissions failing as well. Toyota quality indeed.
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How do you have enough friends to ride around with 4-5 people in the car?
 
ShawnD1 said:
True that it's a slow work day, but none of the stuff I post is made up. I really do own a crayola, I did own a civic, the civic was a fine car but it was t-boned, corolla is a fine car too but it's broken right now. Apparently I was loading the vehicle past GVWR this whole time because I regularly ride around with 4 or 5 people in the car, but GVWR only allows for 1000lbs of people+goods. Much of the driving in my city is up hills (cities centered around rivers are usually hilly), so the constant gear hunting + overloading is doing a number on the transmission. Solution is to either buy a better vehicle or stop bathing in hopes that fewer people are willing to ride in my car. I keep comparing it to the Civic because the two cars are often directly compared and because I treated that car even more harsh than I treat this one but it still worked 100% until it was written off in an accident.

One thing I was going to post earlier was how google searching for a car and "transmission failure" usually relates to automatics. For the Corolla, there seems to be a major problem with their manual transmissions failing as well. Toyota quality indeed.
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Solution for you, when you get your car back drive around with nothing but yourself in it and notice the change.


Like 85% of transmissions are automatic(or more) in cars sold in the US, of course it will populate the searchs.
 
Demo24 said:
Solution for you, when you get your car back drive around with nothing but yourself in it and notice the change.
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If I wanted to be an angry loner with no friends I would have bought a car with only 2 doors.

How do you have enough friends to ride around with 4-5 people in the car?
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Stop being an angry loner? Girlfriend + 2 friends = 4 people in car and even this is beyond the grasp of anandtech. Yikes!
 
Shawn in a few short hrs has over 1000 hits!

My first car was a Toyota, I had a Civic, between the two I'd go with Honda first
Why?
They didn't aspire to be the worlds largest and decontent their cars to the point they ride on reputation. Honda IMO still relies on building cars and engineering and making a profit without chasing market share. . .
 
ShawnD1 said:
If I wanted to be an angry loner with no friends I would have bought a car with only 2 doors.


Stop being an angry loner? Girlfriend + 2 friends = 4 people in car and even this is beyond the grasp of anandtech. Yikes!
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I didn't mean all the time. 🙄
 
Demo24 said:
I didn't mean all the time. 🙄
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I'm just trying to get an understanding of what you mean. If we're going somewhere downtown, it's best to take one car because parking is a real bitch and it's expensive. We usually take my car because it's the best. I really wish I were joking.

Mine also has the best tires 😀
 
ShawnD1 said:
If I wanted to be an angry loner with no friends I would have bought a car with only 2 doors.


Stop being an angry loner? Girlfriend + 2 friends = 4 people in car and even this is beyond the grasp of anandtech. Yikes!
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I can't speak for the rest of anandtech but I'm married with 1 kid and I own my own home so most of the time it is just me driving to work and back or the 3 of us going somewhere. I almost never cart a bunch of my friends around in my car.
 
True, but you're also 20 years older than me. Your friends have families and kids to take care of. My friends wake up on another friend's couch the next morning. We go out together in as few vehicles as possible because we don't need to leave at separate times.
 
HybridSquirrel said:
so.....general consensus is you broke your car. good job =D
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This is probably what killed my Ford Tempo as well. 3 gears of awesomeness packed full of young people because that was around the time when very few of us owned cars. 5 people in a tempo going up a hill means pedal to the floor the whole time :awe:
 
ShawnD1 said:
This is probably what killed my Ford Tempo as well. 3 gears of awesomeness packed full of young people because that was around the time when very few of us owned cars. 5 people in a tempo going up a hill means pedal to the floor the whole time :awe:
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haha, i've packed my little corolla that full before....except it was all guys from the football team in high school. I blew out my rear struts....haven't had a passenger since.
 
ShawnD1 said:
This is probably what killed my Ford Tempo as well. 3 gears of awesomeness packed full of young people because that was around the time when very few of us owned cars. 5 people in a tempo going up a hill means pedal to the floor the whole time :awe:
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I've packed 4 people in a 50hp car going across the state and did not kill it. Neither did horrible daily traffic or going up mountain passes or desert or snow, the list goes on. You just need to learn how to drive your cars.
 
exdeath said:
Uh...huhu huhu. :hmm: :sneaky: ()🙂
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kornphlake said:
That's how automatic transmissions work, the cruise control won't make it behave any differently. It sounds like you've tried to get your car to do things any reasonable person wouldn't even attempt, you broke it, you fix it.
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He really doesn't have a clue. He wants the loaded car to take a big hill without downshifting...
 
ShawnD1 said:
A fully loaded Honda Civic can. I know because I owned one and it could climb those hills without a problem.
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A loaded civic with an auto will downshift on a big hill, just like the Toyota.

My 5.7L hemi might hot, since it has ample torque. Maybe just drop out of OD.

What you did while driving a manual civic has no bearing whatsoever on what should actually be done.

Big hills with heavy loads should not be taken in high gear. Coming down big hills with heavy loads should also not be done in high gear.

Whether you downshift with a manual is entirely up to you, of course. It's your car and your clutch.

When I come down a big hill with the cruise on, my Jeep will downshift by itself to keep to the set speed without needing the brakes. Just like it should.
 
ShawnD1 said:
Take a trip to Alaska or Canada. Your prius will get stuck in 1" of snow and you'll die waiting for someone to come dig you out.
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Prius drivers are everywhere up here..they do just fine.

And doesn't zero drive a Neon SRT-4? That's about as non-Prius of a FWD car as you can find.
 
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