Whilst a while back, we were taught if you wanted to get a smooth gear change you had to do what was called a sustained rev gear change because when one took one size ten off the throttle the revs dropped. On our EX Ishift as far as I can remember the revs drop when foot removed from throttle. The car definitely has a fly by wire throttle
The gear change is fine overall. It’s first to second and pulling away that seems to be more the issue - difficult to do it smoothly. That and I noticed today that the engine can jerk a little if you lift off and on the throttle when at low revs in traffic (checked engine mounts and they look fine).
I never experienced any of this in our last manual Jazz (and nigh on everything else I drive and have driven over the last 28 years), so it does suggest maybe there’s a reason why this car isn’t as smooth.
Idles fine but I do wonder if it’s a little low as it looks like around 700rpm on the Rev counter once warmed up. Thinking about it, it pulls away etc fine when the engine is cold as the car is idling that bit higher.
Have read that maybe there’s a throttle reset procedure involving disconnecting the battery and then reconnecting it, starting the car and then let it idle until the fan kicks in on these so maybe it needs that?
Got 56mpg on a long 70ish run yesterday so there can’t be that much wrong with it but I am finding the love isn’t flowing for it like the last one as of yet due this issue making it unpleasant to drive round town and especially so in heavy stop start traffic.
As for the GE... quite disconcerting how long this effectively delays the dropping of the revs but it’s obviousky a trait of these (the manual, at least).