RPM Drop While Cruising
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RPM Drop While Cruising
Hello everyone. I noticed something strange today while driving to work. I was driving at about 60 miles per hour, and as I approached a downhill section of the road I let off the throttle to keep from accelerating past the speed limit. The engine speed at the time was around 2000 RPM. When I let off the accelerator, the engine speed dropped to about 1000 RPM and stayed there until my speed decreased enough for the transmission to downshift (the car is a 7AT). As far as I remember, that has never happened before. I tried it again after driving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour, and the same thing happened (a drop to about 1000 RPM). I was not using cruise control, if that is relevant. Is this normal, or is something wrong?
#3
I know that. However, as far as I know the car was already in 7th gear. I checked by attempting to use the paddle shifter to upshift. The display simply showed that I was already in 7th gear.
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Hello everyone. I noticed something strange today while driving to work. I was driving at about 60 miles per hour, and as I approached a downhill section of the road I let off the throttle to keep from accelerating past the speed limit. The engine speed at the time was around 2000 RPM. When I let off the accelerator, the engine speed dropped to about 1000 RPM and stayed there until my speed decreased enough for the transmission to downshift (the car is a 7AT). As far as I remember, that has never happened before. I tried it again after driving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour, and the same thing happened (a drop to about 1000 RPM). I was not using cruise control, if that is relevant. Is this normal, or is something wrong?
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Better engine braking would occur at higher RPMs, right? When I tap the accelerator while slowing down, the engine speed drops, it does not go up. Most importantly, why is the torque converter locking while I am decelerating rather than while I am cruising? I thought the point of the torque converter was to increase efficiency.
Last edited by Superteeth; 12-21-2012 at 12:31 PM.
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