Seriously, I drove a 10 speed until it was time to turn that truck in and then they gave me one of those frakenshaker automatics with 12 speeds and everything except eco mode locked down.
It shifts like ####, even when you are loaded to 79980 it starts in first gear and shifts to 4th revving the engine up to 2100rpm. The whole time its skip shifting causing the truck to jump and twist even when you try to start granny slow.
On top of that it uses the jake break to slow the engine down when shifting so the #### thing sounds like a sick dinosaur.
About half of the time you have to manually override it because it will get itself stuck by shifting too high causing the rpm to drop to like 900 or 1000 where the truck has so little power that it actually starts slowing down even with it mashed to the floor.
This thing is a piece of ####.
To rub more salt in your wound, the stupid thing has built in "georgia over-drive" that throws it into nuetral any time you let off the trottle to coast, which is a pain when you are trying to slow down for those speed zones.
Did freightliner intentionally set out to make a crappy automatic transmission?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by ravaughn, May 9, 2017.
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