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I Just bought a Toyota Blade 2007, When I travel at low speed I notice that the car sort of shudders while maintaining that low speed, if I take my foot off the accelerator the shuddering stops, when I put foot back on to maintain low speed it starts again, but if I put my foot down further, the shudder stops.
Although my car is Tiptronic, I would describe the problem as if I was driving a manual car in 4th gear on the motorway, then slowing down to say 30km p/h and keeping it in 4th gear, a manual car would start to shudder which would indicate the driver needs to change to a lower gear.
I took it into Toyota who without driving it said I may need to change the transmission oil, but I don't want to spend $265 to find out that wasn't the problem.
Then took it to my mechanic who came for a drive with me, he felt the shudder and suggested a transmission problem, but didn't know what it could be, suggested I contact Toyota (which I already had)
Surely this is a common problem for some cars and surely there is a simple answer.
any advise appreciated.
Thanks

The Blade is an import model, many of which have a CVT transmission. The problem you describe, along with the dealer's comment about the fluid, sounds like a potentian problem with the CVT transmission.
I'd suggest you take the car to a transmission specialist for an opinion. However, if you purchased the vehicle from a dealer, only get the specialist to give an opinion at this stage, don't get them to do any repairs yet, as you will need to get the dealer to agree to any costs.
If there is a problem and you have only just bought the car from a dealer, the cost of repair should be the dealer's responsibility (under the terms of the Consumer Guarantees Act).
Unfortunately, if you bought the car privately, there is really no come-back on the seller.

Hi thanks, my mechanic also suggested taking it to a transmission specialist, so will do that next.
I did buy privately, but had it AA checked beforehand, there was nothing on the report to suggest the problem. I also took out Mechanical Breakdown Insurance with AA.
So hopefully I will be covered under the MBI.

Hi Blade 1. I would be interested to know what the result was as I am considering buying one of these and noticed the same condition during a test drive. other than that the car was brilliant.

Hi I had this very same problem with my Nissan Maxima last week and one of the coils had to be replaced. It costs about $100 + labour. Problem was fixed.