lzwhb2 said:
Glad to hear you noticed the improvement. Any other comments you have would also be appreciated. I don't know how much time you spent driving the old calibration, but sounds like it was enough to notice the difference. Any complaints still? Some people doubted that much of an improvement could be made with a reprogram. What would you say to that?
lzwhb2 -- 1st, let me say thank you for your efforts -- and let me also say thank you to GM and Buick for allowing you to participate on these Lambda forums. THIS is what makes customers life-long customers! When we can let you know about things we experience in our driving and you can take that and feed in back into improved product, then you really make the customer difference.
I will be happy to post more as we drive our new Enclave. We've been having crappy weather here and don't want to take a chance of getting it damaged by some of the storms that have rolled through here. I drove both the Acadia and Enclave with the old programming once -- for about 30 minutes each. But I have driven enough vehicles of all manner to know what I like. I had (for almost 20 years) an 87 Corvette that arguably was the best automatic ever -- smooth when driving smooth, but would shift crisp when you wanted to drive that way. The Audi A4 I have now has a 6 speed auto and it's butter smooth when it shifts in the regular D mode -- when in the S (sport) mode, it still is smooth, but shift points/revs are definitely higher and the shifts are a little crisper and more perceptible.
I think you guys did a fantastic job (from what I've been able to tell so far) on the new programming. I have never once felt like the car bogged down (like the old pattern) -- and I had plenty of opportunity to see for myself because our ride home from Michigan was about 4 hours on Thursday, the last 90 min of which was rather harrowing -- some of the worst weather that rolled through the Chicago area in a while. I guess the best compliment to you and your team is that the Enclave always felt to me like it was in the right gear. When I wanted a little extra power, I could just barely tell that the car downshifted a gear, but it was very smooth and uneventful.
I guess my only comment so far -- and I don't know if this could be changed or not -- is I personally would like to see the readout of the gear in the DIC ALL THE TIME! I am used to this because on my Audi, this is how it is displayed. I know immediately if I look, what gear I'm in and I can tell not just by the seat of the pants but by the display that this has occured.
I do know that if you use the L funtion and the shift +- buttons on the shifter, it will show the gear. But that's not quite the same to me. I want to, most of the time, put the Enclave in D and then I'd like to see the gear numbers change in the DIC while I'm driving. I personally think this would be useful information.
Other than the above, nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I'll be happy to provide any input I can to help make this the best vehicle out there. And again, thank you so much for taking the time to help us out.