Just say no to the damper.
You making fun of me. I have a car with a powerglide.You need to learn your new transmission. It behaves like no automatic from the past, which is why I bought it. It is a game changer.
I spent 45 years resisting the ownership of automatics due to bad performance and unreliability, as well as poor efficiency.
This is not Grampa's Powerglide!
I tried this on the way home from work and indeed it calmed the transmission down quite a bit. Still shifts alarmingly hard (but I'm also coming from a CVT car)
As soon as property taxes are paid, I'll probably do the rear Bilsteins then the fronts when I can.
I've already started. Bought the armrest organizer storage cubby thing, the TAILGATE DAMPER!, the key cylinder trim part from the guy here on the forums, and I'm currently looking for a nice bug deflector.
Mine calmed down the rough shifting at almost exactly 5k miles. Every once in a while Ill get a rough shift into 8th on the highway but that has gotten more rare as well.
I have the AVS one that sticks on the hood and like it quite well so far.
I would get a dealer to fix that, regardless of the hassle it may be. And before I put on that damper. I would not want them telling me later that I did something to cause the misalignment, or even worse, not taking it there and finding out much later that there is something wrong in manufacturing or bent somewhere that is causing the misalignment. At least taking it to a dealer should document the issue for now.Pics of the tail gate protrusion.
Hey, Justin, the truck looks great, welcome to the Forum. For highways and freeways, I drive in Drive mode, but for just about everything else, I put it in Sport, which keeps it in lower gears longer. There are some threads here about tuning if you are open to that, which adds power and helps with the transmission as well. I added the Ford Performance Power Pack tune, but there are lots of aftermarket options. Whatever you decide, enjoy the ride!We drove 6 hours to get the truck from NC to KY so I'm back home now and it already has 400mi on it. On the way home (mostly highway as you'd imagine) I averaged 26.5mpg. Not bad. Its a 4WD XLT.
I like the truck pretty well so far. I did notice the left side of the tailgate is WAY off, like 1/4in poking out vs the right side. I might try to adjust something or in the worst case scenario I can take it to a local dealer.
My main concern is the transmission. What is the deal?! This thing is ALWAYS trying to be in a really high gear like 9 or 10. In stop and go traffic is kept trying to be in 6th gear at 12mph. Is this part of the adaptive learning process? Might this get better? It also seems to have all 4 tires out of balance especially noticeable on the highway around 60-70mph. Is this a thing where they come from the factory needing a rebalance?
Aside from those issues, it seems to be pretty good.
Before you run to the dealer about your tailgate, try closing it with a good "slam"...not just a gentle raise and close.Pics of the tail gate protrusion.
Mine required a steroid close to latch good , but just that one time ...DONT let Dave convince you that is the result of "STD " , (sudden tailgate drop) ... but in all reality , a damper will fix it...as much as that pains me to type...
Just an fyi, they have shots for the other STD now.
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