Mine will sometimes flare a bit if cold. Goes away when things warm up though.Originally Posted by SRG963
Mine will sometimes flare a bit if cold. Goes away when things warm up though.
Could someone define "flare" for us dummies?
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Flare is when the RPMs increase during an upshift. Say the car revs to 2200 goes to shift and continues to rev to 2500 before it finally completes the upshift into the next gear. It is not normal for it to happen with the transmission is up to temperature but will do it sometimes in very cold weather due to the fluid become more viscous(thicker) due to the cold temperatures...My allison tranny in my duramax would do this after a cold night of setting outside and once it would get the fluids moving it would be fine...the allison also would flare shifts when I ran a 350hp PPE tune also...
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How would one tell what type transmission that they have in their car. Understand that the GT has 6 spd auto and the base g8 has a 5 spd auto. This post seems to imply that it is the 5 spd but then again?
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If you have a VMS TCM tune, will the dealer make the necessary repairs? Mine does this even in warm temperatures. Only time it doesn't do it is under moderate to full throttle accelaration.
BTW, my G8 is a 2009 with 18k miles on it. Seems to be (very slowly) getting worse.
If you pop your hood, and look at the manufacture plate which is on your driverside behind the air box mounted on the body where the strut is, then you can see the transmission code you have
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