09-13-2011, 09:20 AM | #1 |
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Drivetrain - sport mode with gearshift vs sport mode with the DHP switch
I can change the throttle response by moving the gearshift to sport or I can change it using the DHP switch. I don't see any difference. What I've ended up doing is programing the DHP switch to chassis only and then using the gear selector to select drivetrain sport or normal. Am I missing something?
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09-15-2011, 04:37 PM | #2 |
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That's what I did, too.
After some testing, I concluded that there was no difference in transmission behavior between the default DHP Sport mode and putting the gear selector into Sport mode while DHP is set to Normal. So, it makes sense to me to have the DHP Sport mode set to Chassis Only, because then you have the option of putting the chassis and the transmission into their respective Sport modes separately. In DHP Sport+ mode, I judged that the behavior of the transmission and chassis are the same as their Sport modes outside of DHP Sport+, but DHP Sport+ activates Dynamic Traction Control and increases throttle sensitivity. |
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09-15-2011, 06:33 PM | #3 |
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The only difference is that if you shift manually and use the switch it will not hold the gear after a specific amount of time with no other manual input it will go into auto D. If you use the shifter and just move it to the left to put it in sport mode and then manually change the gear the gear will hold until it is changed...it will stay in manual mode.
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09-15-2011, 07:59 PM | #5 |
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Its what I did - sport mode switch on chasis only - and use the shifter for sport mode. for me, i want to use sport mode chasis a lot more than sport mode transmission, so this is ideal.
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I evaluated the transmission's performance in a variety of conditions, using the following two settings: 1) setting DHP to Sport (Chassis & Drivetrain), and 2) setting DHP to Normal (or Sport, Chassis Only) and putting the transmission into Drive Sport by moving the selector to the left. I could discern no difference in transmission behavior when operating in automatic mode.
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