Toyota Transmission Delayed Engagement The Geek Pub. Is your Toyota vehicle experiencing delayed engagement when shifting from Reverse to Drive After driving Toyota vehicles for over 1. Toyota Tacoma, followed by a 2. Toyota Tundra, I have bragged over and over to my friends about how reliable vehicles they are. Not once did either of those vehicles enter the service facility, except for routine oil changes. System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota Sienna' title='System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota Sienna' />System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota Rav4This along with all of the fantastic features, of course made me a raving fan of Toyota products. After owning my 2. ImageGen.ashx?image=/media/635568/toyota-markx-2004-d.jpg&class=carousel' alt='System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota' title='System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota' />Toyota Tundra for 7 years purchased in early 0. I decided to purchase a 2. Toyota Tacoma TRD Off Road with the Advanced Technology package. Let me tell you, crawl control is awesome Delayed Engagement of the 2. Toyota Tacoma Transmission. Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded their earlier SunOS in 1993. In 2010, after the Sun acquisition by Oracle. Well, I guess even the best of relationships are doomed to hit a snag every now and then. Toyota and I are now not on good terms. Textbook Of Female Urology And Urogynecology on this page. Within a few weeks of buying the truck, I started randomly having an issue that seems cold weather related. When shifting the vehicle from Reverse to Drive the transmissions seems to not always engage. After pressing the throttle and hitting somewhere around 1. RPM the transmissions would slam into gear, jerking the vehicle. It quite honestly feels like someone rear ended you. In fact that was my first reaction the first time I experienced it. System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota Scion' title='System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota Scion' />I should have taken it to the dealership immediately, but after it warmed up outside after spring approached the problem mostly went away. It will happen maybe one out of 1. Today I took the vehicle into Freeman Toyotas service department for its 5. System Center Reporting Manager 2006 Toyota SequoiaThis was the perfect opportunity to see if I could get this problem fixed. I explained the issue to Tim Farrand, my Service Adviser. He immediately started in on a line about I like to fix trucks, but if I cant duplicate the problem were not going to be able to fix it. The frustrated me somewhat because I knew that I couldnt be the only one in the history of this drive train to experience this problem. After a little pressure on my part to look into it further, we walked into Tims office and looked on his computer for TSBs  Technical Service Bulletins from Toyota on this problem. We did find one that described my problem exactly, except for it was from shifting from Park to Drive. Mine was shifting from Reverse to Drive. Jason Torchinsky. Senior Editor, Jalopnik Running 1973 VW Beetle, 2006 Scion xB Notsorunning 1973 Reliant Scimitar, 1977 Dodge Tioga RV. The TSB was called Delayed Engagement, referring to the transmission. Tim swears its not my problem. So that was that, Tim advised me to let it get worse and bring it back. Thats crap. So while Tim was filling out the forms on the screen I googled 2. Sony Xperia C Pc Suite For Windows 8 there. Tacoma Delayed Engagement. There are many, many results that come up with people complaining about my exact problem. Shifting from Reverse to Drive the transmission does not engage until the engine revs passed a certain RPM and then engages abruptly, lunging the truck forward. I showed him the results and he looked at me with the oddest face and said We dont work off of Google, we only work off of TSBs. Now I do get that sentiment, but exactly how does something ever become a TSB unless Toyota hears about it from multiple sources And he most certainly was not putting any notes in the computer to send to Toyota. In fact, I asked if he could make a note about it under my VIN or account and he said We dont even have a way to do that. Low Transmission Fluid on the Toyota Tacoma. A number of people in the forums and on Reddit expressed that this has been found to be caused by the Toyota Tacoma shipping from the factory a quart low on transmission fluid. It is possible this is the case, though many on the Taco forums have had their fluid checked and raised and claim that the problem persists. I did ask Tim Farrand, my Freeman Toyota Service Adviser to check the fluid levels on my truck and flat out refused. He said the system is manufactured, filled and sealed at the factory sealed system transmission and that checking the fluid would take too long and cost too much to be worth it. Tacoma Delayed Engagement Fix. If you are experiencing transmission problems with your Toyota Tacoma or other vehicle, as this transmission is shared across several product lines leave a comment below. Someone also pointed out to me that it is possible it is a torque converter problem. I dont think that is the case, because the impact is hard, not a soft impact when engagement of the transmission finally occurs. With modern vehicles and locking torque converters, I suppose anything is possible though. If Toyota ever fixes this problem for me or posts a TSB about it, I will list it here. I have sent an email to Toyota Customer Care, asking for them to look into this issue. Hopefully I will hear back soon. With many, many people reporting this same problem, Toyota can not ignore this foreverIn the meantime, heres some pictures of my truck the day I bought it. Toyota Tacoma experiencing transmission delayed engagement. Toyota Tacoma experiencing transmission delayed engagement. UPDATE 81. 12. 01. Toyota has issued T SB 0. K5. 2 that updates the transmission to shift properly. This update also claims to smooth the on road shifting out. Im going to get this update as soon as possible and will update here again. UPDATE 1. 22. 72. It has been almost two months since I had the TSB done. It has only partially fixed the problem. I have not had the delayed engagement problem since the update. However, the transmission now seems to clunk into first gear. When coming to a stop as the transmission downshifts it makes a loud clank as it goes from 2nd to 1st. So disappointing. It seems like Toyota had to make some solenoid fire harder to get it shift, resulting in harsh shifting all of the time. They should be ashamed of this drive train. UPDATE 122. 01. I took my 2. Tacoma with the TSB in place on a road trip from Dallas, TX to Ruidoso, NM. This trip was almost 6. I honestly felt like the transmission hunted and pecked for gears the entire trip, something my previous Tacoma 2. This was especially awful in the mountains when the truck seemed like it couldnt find a gear to stay in more than a few seconds at time. It is of course normal to need to shift more in hilly terrain, but it seemed like the truck would shift to a higher gear only to realize it should have stayed and shift back to the lower gear after just 3 or 4 seconds. At one point, I actually put the truck in sport shifting mode to stop the upshift. Using the ECT PWR mode did seem to help some. This trip confirms to me that this enginetransmission combination belongs in a mini van, not a truck. UPDATE 41. 02. 01. I took my 2. 01. 6 Taco in for service at the 1. K mark this morning, and complained about the transmission clunking into first gear and the constant hunting for gears at highway speeds. As I expected they claim the truck is operating as designed. 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