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Old 19-10-2006, 01:33 PM   #11
Glenn Smith
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Quote:
Originally Posted by portzy

Moving the stick momentarilly to the left takes you down a gear and restricts the shift programme to that gear, i.e. if you have gone to 4th you should see 4 in the display and the box will not shift up further than 4th unless, you move AND HOLD the stick to the right then all the gears available in D are available again. It will, of course, shift down if you leave it alone but wont shift up beyond 4th.

Moving and HOLDING the stick to the left selects the best gear for acceleration at that point in time, whatever that gear may be so, it could in theory drop more than one gear to get you there.
Maybe all these box's are different, mine certainly not as above, it says and does exactly as in handbook, if in D on the display a nudge to the left drops indicator to 4 another nudge drops indicator to 3 and so on, if you nudge to the right from a lower gear it steps up one at a time untill in D, holding to the left will indicate the gear already selected by the box dropping at least one gear if you are in D at the time (road speed permitting) i.e. if the car is in second gear the indicator will show 2 and the box will be limited to auto changes between 1st and 2nd. regardless of gear selected or shown if the the lever is pushed and held to the right then D is selected
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