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spinner · 05-07-2008, 07:41 AM

Would you say that this bucking at 60 MPH was severe? There is a relatively gentle load change with cylinder management, sometimes easy to spot with the real-time fuel efficiency gauge.

There is a pulsing that you can get at around 6 MPH on a flat road with a light touch of the accelerator, say if you're rolling to keep up with slow-moving traffic. That is normal, as far as I know. Bucking at higher speeds is not.

The transmission is clutched because there is no torque converter for the CVT. That could be contributing to your situation. But it might be a break-in period thing too. If the green dot beside "D" in the selector indicator starts flashing, then you definitely have a problem.

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spinner Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 164	Would you say that this bucking at 60 MPH was severe? There is a relatively gentle load change with cylinder management, sometimes easy to spot with the real-time fuel efficiency gauge. There is a pulsing that you can get at around 6 MPH on a flat road with a light touch of the accelerator, say if you're rolling to keep up with slow-moving traffic. That is normal, as far as I know. Bucking at higher speeds is not. The transmission is clutched because there is no torque converter for the CVT. That could be contributing to your situation. But it might be a break-in period thing too. If the green dot beside "D" in the selector indicator starts flashing, then you definitely have a problem.