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Sedans Toyota Camry 2007 Toyota Camry Transmission Questions
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Replying to: carguy65 (Feb 06, 2008 9:16 am)
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Replying to: carguy65 (Feb 06, 2008 9:16 am)
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Replying to: chuckhoy (Feb 06, 2008 11:08 am) |
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Replying to: acco20 (Feb 06, 2008 2:51 pm) |
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I have a Camry 2007 SE V6, purchased last June (2007) and have now experienced the transmission flare. Mine occurs when first starting on cold days. It is intermittent and does not always occur. It feels like the transmission is slipping when I first start out. Slowly, it seems to catch and I begin to move. I get very little forward movement at first. I have not noticed the 3 to 4th gear flare others have talked about. I also have noticed when decelerating, it seems to catch in 3rd gear and at 22mph it free wheels again giving a little lurch forward after the shift. Last week my dealer did the TSB 007-07. Just yesterday after having not driven the car for a day and the temperature dropped outside, it did it again. I backed out of the driveway and cannot get going in forward for a minute or so until the trans gets going. It seems that the 3rd gear issue on deceleration is a little better after the TSB. Has anyone experienced any improvement from any of the TSB's or transmission replacements? Also how are people determining when the car was built? my vin ends with U039683. I know that this is the sequence it was built. How many others have the flare on cold start from a stand still as opposed to the 3 to 4 flare or have people had both? Any word yet if Toyota will develop a better fix or a recall on the trans? I am brining mine back to the dealer next week but I am concerned that additional fixes mess up the gas mileage, or don't seem to work as I have read here. By the way, I found some of the TSB's in pdf format at Toyota Nation. com. Here is the link: http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=104. If this does not work, it is under Camry forums Gen 5&6 scroll down a bit and there it is. Thanks for any additional help on this matter. Eric |
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Replying to: ericlsailor (Feb 14, 2008 6:16 am) Your problem sounds like a defective transmission or part. You should keep on the dealer to fix the problem under warranty. |
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Replying to: ericlsailor (Feb 14, 2008 6:16 am)
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Replying to: kiawah (Feb 14, 2008 9:40 am) From your experience, does what I posted sound like the flare issue or is is a different issue? Could it be related or caused by a similar malfunction? I say this as the dealer did the TSB TC007-07 which sound like people with the flare issue had done as well.
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Replying to: ericlsailor (Feb 14, 2008 6:51 pm) The flare only happens on some 6 cylinders, it normally only happens once when the engine transmission is cold, and it occurs on the 3rd gear shift. One poster had documented it on a video, and posted a link a couple times here on Edmunds forum. As second gear is winding out to the next shift point, you see the rpm's flare up about another 1K before dropping down lower to third gear. Many of those that have had this problem, have had numerous attempts to repair including software loads, transmission replacements, etc.....and end up getting a lemon law out. A couple of the problems were resolved with some fix. My perception (right or wrong), is that the attempted resolutions are marginally successful, but worth a try. I've worked on a couple of my own manual transmissions and clutches over the years, but leave the automatics to the pros.....so I am by no means qualified to talk about the inner workings of an automatic. However, I did have a Ford which was slow to shift into 1st gear, which ended up being a bad solenoid. The symptoms were that we'd shift from park, reverse, or neutral and put it in drive, then attempt to begin to go, the rpm's would rise, the transmission would effectively be in neutral for a short period of time, and then drop into first while the engine rpm was up chirping the tires. Problem was it was not consistent, so you never knew whether it was going to shift correctly (most of the time), or not. From the symptoms you wrote, I don't believe that is the 3rd gear shift flare....and you probably some other 'normal/regular' transmission problem. |
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Thanks kiawah. Yes, I think mine sounds different than the flare issue as pointed out by imidazol97 above. Again yesterday when the car is cold and has been sitting for a day or a couple of days it will not move forward but the engine is reving. It reminds me of my 1993 Camry which I traded in because the reverse gear went out and would slip. It started with a little slippage then got quickly worse until I had no reverse at all. I then traded it in for the 2007 v6 se. By the way it was built in April of 2007. I did see the flare video a while back. I have an appointment with the dealer next week and hope they can find a fix for it. Does the 3rd gear flare happen on a hard acceleration, a normal or gentle acceleration? |
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