[Robert.Mauro]

Does this mean Ascent CVTs have different programming depending on its Date of Manufacture?

That TSB (and the programming files) have been superseded by the newer ones. Look at the latest recall TSB for the updated/current programming files and their applicability. It's in the recall thread I created.

 

[Robert.Mauro]

Subaru helped me with that. They love using the word on the parts site.

(And, I use it at work when I am doing pre-legal stuff.)

 

[Robert.Mauro]

Robert, I appreciate all that you do here, but with all due respect, including legal, you didn't answer the original question: do the different "file names" indicate that each file is a "different" program?

I have a 2023 model year, but I would still like to know whether or not Subaru is "fine tuning" the program continuously. If so, then there would seem to be one less "reason" for Subaru to fail to adjust the "fake shift" issue?

Craig

Craig, there's literally no relevance, since all of the Ascents in question should already be running the same update paks from the recall.

If you want to know the programming differences across model years, no, I'm not going into detail. But I will say it has nothing to do with any reason any of you have speculated. One changes was the gearing since 2019 (one change). Other than that, they've rolled out different logging code. AND, they incorporated the first recall's code into new builds. THAT is why there's different PAK files. The most recent recall rolled them all up again. 2023's will be running a different file because the fix was already incorporated into it, and because of dual X Mode and other X Mode changes.

Regardless, there's ZERO fake shift issues. Remember, liking the shifts or hating them, is all a matter of personal preference. Subaru can't fix the fact that people have wildly differing opinions on the matter. 😉

On to your 2023, I already got you all the answer for that question (and 9 other questions), before the car was even revealed. There's no changes to the faux shifting for 2023.

On a personal note:
I detest the fake shifting.

But it will take a bunch of you all to write Subaru and ask them to make it able to be disabled by the owners, for it to change. I suspect that many Ascent owners are writing in asking for more of it to counteract those of us who wrote to make it user selectable or removed.

Final note:
Removing the fake shifting will require another round of EPA testing. I don't think we will see it until another model year, if ever (again, that depends on all of you).

 

[Robert.Mauro]

To both of these points, I don't know a single person that LIKES the fake shifting.

Besides Car & Driver, I sadly know a lot.