[ProDigit]

Yep, mine does this when it holds out 2nd til over 3k. I try to not let it do that if the engine isn't warm, but it usually happens coming up a hill near home.

Tune probably fixed it for you. Ford had a TSB addressing 2-3 shift flare on their version of the transmission with a programming update.


Slam down hard on mine and it drops gears and takes off instantly. If yours is an early year Cruze, the programming really needed help.[/COLOR]

Second gear usually goes higher, because of the larger gear spacing.
Sometimes in 3rd gear, mine revs to 3.5 or 4k RPM, before jolting into 4th, almost as if the clutch plates opened, but somehow were glued to the plate, until that gear shift happens.
Doesn't happen often though, just once in a blue moon.

But cold, my engine does have the tendency to stay in gear too much, which is not good.
High revs on a cold engine, can result in metal fatigue of the valves.

 

[Shaf]

Update : I do not know if these two are related in such way, so maybe someone else has experience such issue?, Well as I have made a post regarding 'brake caliper' issue, well I would set my Emer. brake & then somehow get my brake caliper from 'sticking' or whatever is going on. Well it would stop acting up & during this time my transmission would shift smooth as silk through all the gears & all on perfect shift points.

So would a stuck caliper cause transmission to think I am brake when I am when in fact I am giving gas & the system getting confused where it should shift up or down, I know this may sound crazy but doesn't hurt to ask.

hi joshuab,
I recently have got cruze 2009 1.8, i had to take out the transmission because i was replacing main engine seal, my transmission was also playing up with 3,5 and reverse gears so i decided to rebuild it, found torn up filter gasket behind valve body, went on to take out everything, tested and reassembled all parts, all worked fine except getting that little lag while shifting from 2 to 3 so i exactly know what issue you had with your transmission, i dont have much experience with cruze but first possible reason which came to my mind is that probably its TCM needs some kind of tuning or relearning so it exactly knows the shift points to make it smooth because physically there is nothing wrong with it as i have seen it from inside, still researching, were you able to fix it at all?