I’ve had my 2023 Ascent for a week now. Yesterday, in the 90 degree heat it started acting funny. When pulling out into traffic, or trying to cross traffic from a stop, it would accelerate for a few feet, then basically completely stop accelerating, then accelerate again like normal. I just came out of a 22 Wilderness Outback with the same drivetrain so know what the turbo lag and CVT behavior is like. This is very different. It’s a major hesitation with no acceleration. Very unsettling crossing busy traffic or when pulling out in heavy traffic. Went to the dealer today and drove with the service manager for 20 minutes but could not reproduce. As great as my dealer is, without a reproducible problem there’s not much for them to go on. They are willing to do the CVT chain slippage diagnosis if I say it keeps happing.
Wondering if anyone else has seen this issue and what the resolution was so I can give the dealer some more info.
