decko999

I have a new 2023 base cayenne (~2000 miles) and I notice that it often doesn't shift gears properly. I see this normally when going downhill and coasting and it won't shift out of 2nd gear until it revs out pretty high (around 3.5-4k RPMs). Anyone know if this is common? Should I be taking this in to get it looked at?

chassis

Downhill gear hold sounds normal. What other gear shifting problems do you have?

Ericson38

Have the same 2023 and 2000 mile base as you. I take some pretty strong grades back and forth to work, about 7%, several miles long, 4 way highway. Speed limit is 70 mph. At the top of the hill from positive to negative slope, I'm at 70 mph in 7th most likely, at the end of that climb. Then it goes down the 7% decline in 8th and will get up to 80 with no throttle if I let it, so downshift into 6th and 3500 rpm to keep things in the 73 mph range. Leveling out, paddle back to 8th and cruise on.

Did you enter the downhill grade at a slow speed (2nd gear) and then are you saying that with your foot off the throttle, it will stay in second all the way to 3500 rpm or so, then into 3rd, and then repeat again, into 4th ? I haven't tried that maneuver to see what would happen.

imagiag

2023 base here too (now at 5k miles), I had service look at odd shifting at 2k (after break-in period) too - they have done reset of the learned shifting patterns and it's OK since - apparently going lightly during the break-in period gave the computer wrong idea of how to shift in regular use. It still holds 2nd longer than I'd like occasionally, but way less than before and not to the point it would bother me.

decko999

This seems to only happen when going downhill. It seems to happen in any gear that I'm currently at when starting to go downhill. Since I'm going downhill, I take my foot off the accelerator and it just keeps it in the gear and revs it high. One of the hills I normally go down I start in 2nd and it stays in that gear. Another hill, I'm usually in 4-5th gear and it revs out high in that gear as I go down.

matthewr87

Hill descent control feature using engine braking?

chassis

Normal.