I am currently driving a Toyota rav 4, and i always find it difficult to gather speed whenever i want to overtake any vehicle. I want to know if the problem is from the car or its form the automatic transmission?

chucksbadt: I am currently driving a Toyota rav 4, and i always find it difficult to gather speed whenever i want to overtake any vehicle. I want to know if the problem is from the car or its form the automatic transmission?

some automatics got a kick down sensor/switch when you deep the accelator to the flow the transmission ECU changes gear to lower one, giving the car enough power to accelarate

just like you do with manual when you are in 5 and want to accelarate fast you change down to four

chucksbadt: I am currently driving a Toyota rav 4, and i always find it difficult to gather speed whenever i want to overtake any vehicle. I want to know if the problem is from the car or its form the automatic transmission?

check this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAioPe070_g

the car reached 6000rpm @ 140km/hr then kick down to 4000rpm which is a lower gear and the speed keeps on increasing in that lower gear, it will get to the next gear when speed of the car can be maintained in low revs in this case around 3000 rpm

ZIM DRILL:

some automatics got a kick down sensor/switch when you deep the accelator to the flow the transmission ECU changes gear to lower one, giving the car enough power to accelarate

just like you do with manual when you are in 5 and want to accelarate fast you change down to four

That's right. Anytime yoy want to overtake, just accelerate deeper the gear will immediately change to lower one and the car will move faster. It also happens when you want to climb maybe a long hill, you'll notice as your gear automatically changes to a lower one when you press the accelerator deeper. If yours don't change like that, then there must be an issues. First check if your gear oil is short.

You can also select a lower gear then after overtaking take the gear back2 D.