My 2010 yaris is on its 4th transmission!! Help please

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by tk-421

This is what I'm getting pretty consistently myself. I think it has something to do with that "limiter" that gets activated at certain revs on 1st gear. Regardless of what's causing it, it feels pretty terrible.

Yes, there is a mechanism which prevents you from downshifting into 1st too soon, but it is a poor design when it actually still prevents you from downshifting into 1st gear when at a stand still. The gears in your transmission should not be operating still at a velocity that would cause grinding at that point. I have discussed this with several folks now that build transmissions (unfortunately never a C50) at length and they all feel it is design flaw. I have even had a couple of them now ride in the car and shown them. The newish tranny that is in the car now that I picked up from Shragen which has somewhere between 20-30k miles on it has not exhibited any issues thus far. I have put a little over 1k miles on it in the last few weeks. It works like a hot knife through butter....*knocks on wood*