do you notice when you floor it?

[michaels artic frost]

today the traffic was crazy, so I decided to floor it to get away from all the bs. when I put the pedal to the metal, I notice it took like two seconds for the full acceleration power to come on, is it lag?

I drive a gen 2 solara I4

Hey, I noticed that once before as well. But hasn't happened since then. Maybe it was the gas that I had gotten. It's been fine since I've been going to the same gas station. Perhaps when I was out of town and had to get gas at another gas station. Oh well...

[Gyaf]

sometimes ive noticed a slight lag before you get your speedburst yeah...

when i'm in a situation where i'm jumping in like that, sometimes i'll go to the auto-stick thing and downshift into 3rd for a bit of a boost

[Shoe]

was your ac on?

shoe

[geminimouse]

the Auto lag

[TW85]

Two things cause it: 1) automatic transmission 2) throttle-by-wire. It is mostly #1.

You can reduce the delay by shifting down 1 or 2 gears using the sportshift mode.

[Jewls]

Mine does the same thing, drives me nuts because I am an aggressive driver.

[michaels artic frost]

Mine does the same thing, drives me nuts because I am an aggressive driver.

MOVE OUT THE WAY GUYS!!! JEWLS on da road...lol...jk.

[04solarafanatic]

Hey guys...i noticed the same lag....I was reading in the manual and it said that the throttle is not controlled by a wire like the previous models....rather the throttle is controlled digitally now.

I guess that can cause the lag...maybe takes time for it to register before the car realises that you put the pedal to the medal.

Also...is it bad for the car if you downshift alot into sports mode?

I been wanting to use sports mode....but Im waiting til I break 3k miles...then I will mess around with it..in an empty parking lot...hehehe


Well...hope that helps....correct me if Im wrong...but I'm pretty sure I read that in the manual one day when I was really bored.....

[glenb]

I noticed a lag from time to time. My thought is, it is the computer on the throttle-by-wire. This is one thing that Toyota should address. Has anyone contacted Toyota?

[hari-bhari]

that lag you notice is your a/t downshifting into a lower gear to get into a higher powerband, hence giving you more power. but it takes time to shift.

[angelo]

Hey guys...i noticed the same lag....I was reading in the manual and it said that the throttle is not controlled by a wire like the previous models....rather the throttle is controlled digitally now.

I guess that can cause the lag...maybe takes time for it to register before the car realises that you put the pedal to the medal.

Also...is it bad for the car if you downshift alot into sports mode?

I been wanting to use sports mode....but Im waiting til I break 3k miles...then I will mess around with it..in an empty parking lot...hehehe


Well...hope that helps....correct me if Im wrong...but I'm pretty sure I read that in the manual one day when I was really bored.....

Actually the fact that the trottle is controlled digitally should make the trottle response faster, maybe the downshift is causing the delay...

[TW85]

It is not just the downshift creating the delay. There is sometimes a noticeable delay before the transmission even shifts to a lower gear.

[Prophet]

For whatever it's worth, the lag is found in any Toyota or Lexus which shares the same engine as the Solara and I believe in another Toyota engine as well that was used in earlier Camrys.

Our RX300 has the same lag, same engine...and I remember reading a list of Toyota/Lexus vehicles with the same lag on the net somewhere while researching the Solara.