Daniel Evans Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 I have a new one. I have not done a WOT in some time and my 03 SLS started really rattling on start ups after sitting for several days. So I took it out today found open road and manually shifted down to second and pulled her up and when I hit 5800 it shifted into third gear. I was manually in second but the car shifted itself. Maybe in WOT exercises prior I never hit 5800 but I tried it several more times and each time it shifted when I hit 5800. One other note, once the car slowed down to 50ish and the RPM went below 2000 it down shifted back into second. Is this a RPM limiter, and normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockfangd Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 sounds normal to me. It prevents damage. I dont know if I would typically rev that high. Usually around 5500 tops. You dont want it to go into third gear Quote GM FAN FOREVER Nice, clean, luxury= fine automobile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCadTech Posted August 11, 2017 Report Share Posted August 11, 2017 From the owners manual; Notice: Don’t shift into SECOND (2) unless you are going slower than 65 mph (105 km/h), or you can damage your engine. As @rockfangd stated it is forcing the shift to prevent over speed damage in 2nd gear. There is also a rev limiter in neutral to prevent high RPM neutral drops. Quote THERE IS ALWAYS ENOUGH TIME TO DO THE JOB RIGHT - THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH TIME TO DO THE JOB AGAIN !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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