Despite the fact that my car is running better than ever, there are some conditions in which bad behavior shows up. One of these situtations, perhaps the most annoying, is the behavior (which includes shift points, smoothness of shifiting, and any other metric you care to use) of the automatic transmission when the car is hot, and specifically when the ambient temperature is hot--like above 90 degree F, +/-. (I should note hot is relative; the temperature gauge is reading normal operating temperature)
On the way down to PUB, there is a stretch of road between highways, so to speak, that is lots of traffic lights, and there was heavy traffic. Temperature above 90 degrees, but the car's temperature was just a needle's width above that 180 mark. But the shifting? Horrible. Sometimes it went from 2 to 4 so fast that you didn't even know it stopped at 3. Other times it didn't really want to shift. Other times, lots of hard klunks. Nothing consistent, but what I would simply call "bad behavior". This isn't new, but now that other issues are solved one by one, I turn to the remaining ones.
Now, cool down the ambient air to the low to mid 80s, or most evening running, and all is well. How much of this hot-air bad behavior, if any, is normal? Any suggestions?
Personally I don't like driving my car when it is 95 degrees out--but sometimes you can't avoid it.
Something is very sensitive to ambient temperature--and I wonder if it is internal (transmission itself) or switches, etc.