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Old Sep 4, 2020 | 08:41 AM
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Just started driving my first C6, Its a base convertible with the auto trans. The thing shifts smoothly but's very soft. Is there any way to make it firm?? Plus, sometimes it kick out of gear for a nanosecond on slow easy cornering but is fine 95% of the time which is weird.
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Just started driving my first C6, Its a base convertible with the auto trans. The thing shifts smoothly but's very soft. Is there any way to make it firm?? Plus, sometimes it kick out of gear for a nanosecond on slow easy cornering but is fine 95% of the time which is weird.

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Originally Posted by Daffy
Just started driving my first C6, Its a base convertible with the auto trans. The thing shifts smoothly but's very soft. Is there any way to make it firm?? Plus, sometimes it kick out of gear for a nanosecond on slow easy cornering but is fine 95% of the time which is weird.
You can have a tuner tune your car and also change the way the transmission shifts

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You can have a tuner tune you car and also change the way the transmission shifts
I was hoping that might be the situation. I hate a lazy transmission
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What is the mileage on your car?
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What is the mileage on your car?
71000 miles, appears to have not been beat on.
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Plus, sometimes it kick out of gear for a nanosecond on slow easy cornering but is fine 95% of the time which is weird.
It's not "kicking out of gear" ... What is happening is that the converter is just unlocking ... perfectly normal.
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It's not "kicking out of gear" ... What is happening is that the converter is just unlocking ... perfectly normal.
And this can be tuned so that it won't do that!
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Originally Posted by Daffy
Just started driving my first C6, Its a base convertible with the auto trans. The thing shifts smoothly but's very soft. Is there any way to make it firm?? Plus, sometimes it kick out of gear for a nanosecond on slow easy cornering but is fine 95% of the time which is weird.
I have a 2008 hardtop C6. I noticed the trns felt that way when I first bought it. Picked up a SOLER throttle controller and that made a good bit of difference. Then I went to one of the vendors here and picked up the SCT tuner with lifetime tunes. Filled out the forms then dynosteve emailed me a tune.....hammer down and it gets sideways shifting into second....with the traction control ON....now it feels like a Corvette!
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