Welcome to the club, part of the experience. It is the worst while slowing down for a stop and then accelerating before making a complete stop.

 

+1 My wife's 2013 has done that since she purchased it and her 2007 S80 3.2 did the same thing. She has had software updated to no avail. We just live with it.

 

This is so strange. I only get some hard shifts when going from 2-3rd gear if I press the pedal more, it doesn't happen. Maybe an engine mount on the bottom? I changed the torque rod and torque strut mount

 

I honestly think it's just garbage TCM programming.

It reminds me of a bad valve body. We replaced them all the time at VW. The FWD 6 speed auto cars used an Aisin similar to ours.

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Does the 2016 T5 have the 6 speed or 8 speed automatic? In March or so of last year Volvo released a TSB for the 6 speed whereby owners could go back to an older version of the software befoe Volvo introduced the horrible behavior Aschman describes. Search here on this forum for the thread and TSB on it.

 

It's the 8 speed Aisin unit

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As an experiment, try to drive it aggressively for a few trips (i.e. harder acceleration from a stop than normal to hold it in first gear longer, just more throttle, nail it more to pass, etc.). I think the learning algorithm is somewhat mediocre Volvo's trannies and "casual" driving seems to have them drift into this crappy sloppy shift mode...worth a shot.

 

After posting to the thread for clicking/ticking, I decided to check for the transmission issue. A well described "Jerky Transmission" I noticed two years ago just didn't think anything of it until I just experienced the clicking/ticking noise upon acceleration. Twenty plus years of leasing Volvo cars, I'm done.

 

I may have them reset the transmission adaptation when I have my second service done and see if it helps. I fully expect them to NPF the concern.

I have no interest in driving the XC60 aggressively; that's not what this car is for.

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