2018 Highlander AWD V6
Good afternoon!
I have the above mentioned car and I wanted to ask if I am experiencing an issue or is it my imagination.
Lately I’ve noticed that my car revs high like it is stuck trying to downshift. Also sometimes when I give gas it shakes a little like it’s not getting enough fuel or maybe the transmission isn’t catching with the engine.
the transmission fluid was changed at 60k miles and I now have 64k miles. The issue preceded that.
I have brought it into Toyota and they said they can’t find anything and that I am not giving the car enough gas when I drove causing the mild shudder.
I have the full extended warranty from Lexus (bought it at a Lexus dealer used with 19k miles) to 80k miles so I’d like to determine what’s going on before that expires and I am out a bunch of cash.
could it be something else? Another sensor perhaps?
There’s been no change in mileage per gallon
Thank you!
Dan
Well that just shows you how useless warranties are that you pay for. They never want to cover anything. I would go to the dealer and I would film it when it acted up. Show him here's what's happening. Say fix the stupid thing. But they probably don't care because they don't make money on warranty work. So unless you could really get them to repair or replace the transmission, you kind of up s**** Creek without a paddle. That's a problem with those warranties. You pay the money but then when you need to collect. Oh well. We can't find anything wrong. Is there excuse most of the time. You could try and aftermarket transmission guy to at least analyze it and if he sees what's wrong then you give that paperwork to the dealer and let them fix it under warranty
Hey Scotty! Thanks for the response. So I took it to two transmission shops locally. Both found transmission is fine BUT there is a worn motor mount. Thankfully this is not a major issue to repair! But I won't do the repair at the dealer.