When I park my car in the driveway, which has a slight incline. When I first start it up and put it in to gear it feels kluncky. This doesn’t happen when I’m parked on the street which is level. After this initial kluncky feeling it goes away. Smooth as glass. I’m thinking it might be that the oil in the transmission doesn’t like being parked on a incline. I don’t like parking on the street, because the people across my house have a habit of backing up into our cars parked on the street. So I park on the driveway when ever possible. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Just a reminder I have a 2018 SXT with 8 gear transmission
I think it is the incline too. As long as it 'goes away' afterwards, I wouldn't worry about it. Living here in the mountains of western NC, my Trans Am has made those tranny 'clunks' for years and years when parked on grades of any type. The aluminum driveshaft has it's own 'clunks' as well. All is good after 20 years of this stuff. I can't comment on my R/T as it's rather level most of the time in it's short life, but it would not disappoint me to hear it.
I think it's the pressure coming off the parking pawl in the trans that your feeling. Try this to see if it helps. Drive into your driveway, and with your foot on the brake and the trans in Drive, firmly apply the parking brake. Shift to Neutral. Remove your foot from the brake. The car should sit there, held in place by the parking brake. Then shift to Park. When you go to move the car, it should shift smoothly into gear without clunking.
It isn't the "Hemi Tick" at idle that comes and goes which can lead to lifter failures or that "Multiple Displacement System" that runs the car on 4 cylinders in ECO mode on the 8 spd. automatic transmissions that contributes to early engine failures?
