So the quick 'walk of shame' answer is yes, I have been shifting into 4th and not D.

The long answer would add that I remember a Miller High Life commercial where a guy was drinking a beer in his lawn holding a rake and watching the guy across the street try to back his truck, boat and trailer in a driveway very unsuccessfully. The quote was "there used to be a day when a man knew how to handle his automobile".

It seems now that with my recent posts, I have become that guy.

This is my first Toyota and I bought it used from a Chrysler dealer (2011, 11K miles, $23K) who apparently didn't notice that I was in 4th on the test drive. The shifter just kind of always came to rest at the 4 and with the shifter plate reading 4-D close to each other, I thought it was the same thing.

I just took it on the freeway in D and got to 68MPH at 2000RPMs.

Thx for all of the feedback.

Now if I could figure out how to turn the orange running lights off in the daytime....??? Anyone, Bueler?

 

Glad to hear you got it sorted! Little less pep on the highway now? Let us know how much your mileage improves.