Sentences with phrase «too high a gear»

It's very gradual — even when you press the gas pedal a good bit — like the transmission is in too high a gear.

The no - doubt economy - oriented shift program goes into too high a gear too quickly for the engine's torque output.

6 speeds are better than 3, but the driver only feels third or fourth most of the time, and at low speeds the engine can lug at too high a gear.

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Although Roma had shown the night before that it isn't over until the fat lady starts gearing up on the stage for her high note, there weren't too many, if anyone at all, who gave Juve a chance of even making this a competitive match.

Ethiopia, but the likes of Kenya and Nigeria too, are key political economies to watch in the coming years as they try to balance Western suitors and emerging market partners to move into higher developmental gear.

And contrary to my expectation that their efforts would be geared to the needs of undergraduates, with little of relevance to postgrads, there was in fact plenty for those finishing higher degrees too.

The structured environment, exercise classes, and prepared meals had sounded promising, but the $ 2,400 - a-week price tag seemed too high when she found meals were limited to one option, she had to share a room with strangers, and the exercise classes were geared toward the resorts older clients.

Too much salt in your diet can also kick your fight - or - flight instinct into high gear.

Pick up the pace to kick your heart rate into high gear, adding cardio benefits, too.

A late lunch may be the case — perhaps you ran out of energy too quickly and your body just kicked your hunger into high gear.

When you're not supposed to take a film too seriously, it can come as a shock when the emotional moments kick into high gear throughout the third act.

The script (by del Toro and Matthew Robbins) anticipates problems and corrects them before they can take shape, too; just as it seems his story may get bogged down with exposition, the action shifts into a hallucinatory high gear.

2nd gear feels too low and 3rd too high for most corners; very rarely is there a bend that seems to suit the 200.

However, while shifting to a higher gear, you let off the gas which will cause your RPM to drop low - most of the times I find it a little too low, even for a higher gear.

I recently did a head gasket repair on my 1986 Kawasaki GPZ1000RX and now that everything is back together it starts up fine, idles fine, and revs high without a problem while in neutral, but when I put it into gear and started driving it it'll drive fine when giving it slight throttle, but when I get to the higher revs, or when I open the throttle too quickly it bogs down badly, and starts stuttering, but eventually starts revving higher and leveling out.

I've found that when my tires are not correctly inflated (e.g., too high in the rear), I hear significantly more differential / gearbox noise during engine braking in second gear.

If the highest gear you can get to intuitively is too low, then there might be a button to disable overdrive or something like that, which is the same as if the gear selector had one more position at the top end.

I thought the system took over too quickly even when set to manual, putting you into a higher gear a hair sooner than I would like, but after some experimenting I was able to get a nice little popping sound out of the exhaust.

Other than the probably fixable understeer, my only complaints about the GT4 are that the gearing is too long, and the engine lacks the sparkle and high - rpm pull of the GT3 RS.

The gearing is on the long side for real sporting appeal, too, something that's exacerbated by the long - striding V12's high inertia and wrecking - ball torque, which means all you ever need is third.

In either car, the standard six - speed automatic transmission needs grooming: It holds higher gears coming into corners, delaying needed downshifts until moments too late, and hunts through gears on hilly roads.

The first part is when the engine is in charge with the hand brake on and the second part is on the move with that noise coming constantly only when in 3rd gear at about 2200 - 2300 RPM, can hear the noise in 2nd 4th and 5th gear only when trying to drive with constant speed and in a gear too high for the actual speed.

Other minor complaints included a transmission that tended to shift out of first gear too quickly, high - beam headlamps that didn't reach as far as we'd like, excessive wind noise from the rear side windows, and seat cushions that some behinds felt were too flat.

Try to grab lower gear when road speed is too high, and a warning in the dash says «shift denied.»

These prompts act to notify the driver when to change up (that is, when engine revs are too high for the current gear) and when not to change down (when engine revs are too high for the selected gear).

Moreover, the lack of the sixth gear causes the revs to be a tad too high while cruising at triple digit speeds.

The problem with driving in «Comfort» is that when you need that burst of power, you are usually in a gear too high and have to wait for the gearbox to kick down.

The PDK has new «fuel - saving virtual gears», which are supplemental virtual intermediate gears that reduce engine speed during constant cruising when the next higher gear would reduce engine speed too much.

The combination of a power adder and a numerically - higher rear gear brings too much torque multiplication to the table, and most often, a loss of traction.

Fourth proved a sporting gear at these speeds, too, delivering pull when the revs crept too high for third.

This raised center makes the gear lever feel a bit too high; a rotary selector dial as seen in the Chrysler 200 and the new Lincoln models would have been a much better design and would have freed up a bit of space.

Around town, particularly in stop - and - go traffic, I constantly found myself in an odd dead zone between first and second gear where the revs in first were so high that the ride was jerky, but too low in second gear to keep the engine from stalling.

In - gear acceleration was similar, too, although the slightly shorter - geared VW edging ahead in the higher ratios.

No, in this context S means sequential, or manual shift mode, causing me to putter through the first couple of turns in too high of a gear.

An extra gear was added to eliminate the feel of second and third gears being drawn out for too long, and a 10th gear has been provided to allow for efficient high - speed cruising at reduced engine rpm.

On a couple of occasions, it would go into a too - high a gear and bog down for about three or four seconds, downshift into a lower gear, and then finally get going.

We did notice that the engine lugs a bit when we were light on the throttle around town — the transmission was in too high of a gear.

Launch was in 1st gear and not in 2nd, each gear was raised to a higher shift point, quicker accelerator response was provided plus a faster kick - down and the dampers were stiffened, too.

I would expect this transmission to have pretty comparable (and high) mechanical efficiency to the various DCT or manual transmissions, better than any CVT, and certainly better than old - style automatics (that had ratios too far apart to allow torque converter lockup except in top gear).

The five [INAUDIBLE] transmission is geared way too high.

The manual transmission may rate higher in EPA testing, but in daily driving most people are likely to leave it in a lower gear for too long, not upshifting at the precise point for optimum fuel economy.

At 90,000 mi the transmission started to shift into overdrive too early and the vehicle would lug like a standard shift in to high of a gear.

We have had front strut issues, tire issues, brakes going to early, AC issues, and when I am driving it sometimes feels like I have a manual trans and have the gear too high, I am afraid what that means.

However, the power problem is compounded by the equipped five - speed automatic transmission that, while quite docile for commuting, always seems to be in too high of a gear for any sort of driving enjoyment.

The ZF occasionally baulks at requests for a lower gear when engine speed is too high, causing a need to double - pull the left paddle.

The engine has enough torque on the move and responds rapidly to throttle, but the gearing is too high for low - speed work (idling along in bumper - to - bumper traffic, for instance, or negotiating street corners at sensible speed without dropping back to first).

The steering wheel adjusts for both reach and rake, the gear lever is well positioned, and although the seating position is elevated you don't feel as if you're perched too high.

Coming out of the tight turns, Second gear was too high, and turbo lag and the Porsche Traction Management (PTM) made the car feel sluggish.

If you aren't going to row through the gears yourself with the shift paddles, leaving the transmission in Comfort mode is probably best, unless you like unnecessarily high revs at commuting speeds — Sport is okay, but Sport + holds revs for far too long in normal driving situations.