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Old 12-09-2014, 09:22 AM   #20
WildBillyT
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Originally Posted by ThoR294 View Post
That literally sounds just like my girlfriends focus. You'd mash it and it wouldn't downshift. Also, from slow starts it would almost chatter. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced in an automatic car. It felt like the "kick down" cable wasn't doing jack. We'd try to merge onto 287, punch it, and it would like stay in 4th gear at 20mph. Redonk.
I think the opposite is worse.

I had a Sebring as a rental once, and the pedal was like this (no, I am not exaggerating):

0-5% crawling along
6-33% slow off idle
34%+ WFO

That's it. I tested it in a parking lot because my wife was getting angry at how I was driving. "Why are you flooring it all the time" and so on.

Such a POS. Good riddance.
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