This must be powerglide modeYou can hit the (-) on the side of the shift lever 8 times and it will go from 1st to 2nd
Isn’t a Forscan rather expensive? I would like to delete stop/start. I usually drive in Tow/Haul which turns it off, but would like to permanently shut it offAs Muddy Fenders said, the shifting behavior is what it is due to Ford wanting to get the most MPG out as possible. Sport mode and/or Tow-Haul mode are a bit better and many owners drive in those modes.
FWIW, my turbo 2016 Subaru Forester is also very anemic in the default drive mode. I 100% drive that vehicle in Sport mode, for the same reasons. Blame CAFE and manufactures wanting to advertise the best possible MPG figures.
As for tune, only the Ford Performance Tune maintains warranty, but it does somewhat reduce it down to 3/36k and a certified mechanic needs to install it
BTW Forscan will allow you to zero the Adaptive Learning Tables.
No. The recommended OBDII dongle is about $50 on Amazon here. I believe there is a trial for Forscan that is free. I bought a year license when I used it, right now they are $12.
If you're at 1500 miles and have already reset the learning, there's a good chance you still haven't waited long enough.
Yeah transmission is finicky. If I’m going up a hill in normal and just keeping it around 20 I can come close to getting it to stall because it’s in 7th gear. Gets annoying because sometime I like to zone out a bit and just cruise and this transmission lets me know when I’m doing that. That and the feeling of all road imperfections (maybe suspension or tires, fully stock truck) are my only two gripes. Other than those the truck acts and performs like a truck I can actually get stuff done with. Truck really wants you to accelerate until fully up to speed.
Try driving in only tow or sport mode...just do away with the regular drive. At low speeds in drive especially when turning my 2021 almost always studdered and felt like it was going to stall.
There are many complaints about how the tranny is programmed - I feel the most obvious is that the programming favors mpg , but I think also folks need to keep in mind that the 2.3 is still a relatively small displacement engine, yes it makes good power from the turbo but there are situations when you don't have much boost available, hence power is down and the tranny needs to downshift to get the rpms and power up - that's a characteristic of any small displacement turbos I've driven in the past, be it a manual, 4 spd or 10 speed auto box. And a numbers of posts on here boast about how high their mpgs are and some will chime in on other threads that the tranny is poorly programmed. Can't win em all.
Appreciate it. Yeah truck will take a bit to get used to. I can tell what the transmission is trying to do by always being in the highest gear possible but it’s different than anything else I’ve driven so I’m sure I’ll learn all the ins and outs. And tow mode made a pretty big difference. I’m curious to see if tow mode or sport will work better for going up and down hills with engine braking.
That sounds like it would be perfect. I have no idea how to do this but I probably would if I had the ability. Just unhooked the battery tonight to reset the adaptive learning so I’ll see how it goes.This is the first thing I fixed on my truck, once I got the first 1,000 mile assessment out of the way. I made a new map for fixing this with the transmission in Drive mode. I wanted something between Sport and Drive, without all the engine braking of tow mode. My truck is much more enjoyable to drive now.
