Originally Posted by
MirageSEFan
I had just bought a left-over 2017 Mirage SE in January. It has about 1,800 miles on it now. My CVT acts the same way you described. It's normal for your Mirage. It's just the quirkiness of this car. I have driven other cars with CVT transmissions and they were much smoother. It takes a little time to get accustomed to this CVT.
I usually put my car into Neutral, well before a stop sign or a red light. I then coast as much as possible before hitting the brake. I leave it in Neutral while sitting there and only place it in drive when it's time to move forward. You can also shift it into Neutral and coast down hills. It saves on fuel, brakes, and transmission wear. One thing I have noticed, especially about this CVT, is that when you take your foot off the accelerator, it acts as if you engaged a Jake Brake. It has pretty good engine braking. You can increase the engine braking by shifting it into the other drive gear (Ds) to the right of (D). It definitely does not coast well at all in D or Ds.
You drive your CVT pretty much how I drive mine. I put my CVT into neutral at pretty much every stop and manual shift from B to D from every stop when I take off. If you search the forum for "idle neutral logic" you'll find that under many circumstances the CVT is NOT placed into neutral while stopped. So that funky downshifting or engaging from a stop is normal CVT behavior. I don't like it so I manually shift. One nice thing about the CVT is that you can coast with it in neutral, unlike many automatic transmissions.
Last edited by inuvik; 03-22-2019 at 10:45 PM.
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