They need to have a chat with Mercedes they can make autos work fine.

And Audi :thumbright:

Any updates on this thread Garry?

 

Ah yes I bet your Q7 is fine

 

Ah yes I bet your Q7 is fine

Mighty fine mate....smooth as a babies bum :lol:

 

And I bet like Mercedes it adapts to driving style and knows when your going up/down hill etc?

 

And I bet like Mercedes it adapts to driving style and knows when your going up/down hill etc?

Yes mate, and when I put the car into tow mode it adapts it's gear changing for towing also. Clever really!!!

 

SouNds the same as the c class I had. Worked really well You would think Nissan could do the same!!

 

You would like to think so. Do you think the gearboxes are set up to take into account heavy loads and towing and that is why there is such a difference.
It would be interesting to see if the Pathy V6 is the same?

 

By the sounds of it they're not setup for much of anything at all. I would imagine the Pathy is the same, they seem to share everything else.

 

To be fair the box is great above 40mph, ice smoooth and you don't even notice it shifting. It's from 25-40 mph where it can be annoying. Seems to shift 3rd to 4th at 29 mph and back down (4th to 3rd) at exactly the same speed i.e. no everlap between 3rd and 4th. Same with 4th to 5th at 40 mph. This means round town it is anywhere between 3rd, 4th and 5th depending on traffic speed. When it's warmed up it changes up to 4th earlier and isn't so keen to downshift, which is better.
I'd have prefered a mode switch, with settings like normal, towing and sport rather than this 'adaptive' business.
A re-map of the control algorithms would sort it out, but who's going to do that for such a low volume product....

At 3750 miles the engine is starting to loosen up nicely, bags of torque and smoooooth. Had an oil change at 1800 miles just to get rid of any **** that might have been floating around.
It's in a different class to the gruff 4 pot, and a lot more free revving. I'm only getting 27-28 mpg combined, but it's worth it for the torque that's on tap. B-road performance (above 40mph!) and motorway driving are fantastic.
Haven't towed yet but 1st seems very low. as if only for towing, and I think it'll be a breeze.
Spring and damper settings are better than my old one too, and the rides even better now when I've let the tyres down from the 45psi they came from the dealer with......If you don't do much town driving the V6 is way better than the 4 cylinder.