A tap of the paddle will turn them on and off too
I prefer not to see the gears
Ah so you're the guy that engineering must have been thinking about when they decided to enable that functionality.
I for one, have never figured out why when you have an instrument panel with a dedicated display location for gear indication, and said indication is the only display (other than the selectable center section) that can be turned off by (usually inadvertently) pressing the +/- buttons, that anybody would want to actually do that on purpose.
This has been a mystery to me since owning my 2011 XLT (and then my 2015 Lariat). After about a year of ownership my 2011 had to go in for some sort of programming at the dealership and when I got it back the gear indication was turned on permanently, and pressing +/- did not affect whether or not the display disappeared, which suited me fine. No idea how they did that with IDS or if it was intentional.
But I only wish now there was a way using FORSCAN that I could make my gear indicator on my 2018 802A stay on permanently since I do occasionally glance down and notice that I have accidentally turned it off with the gear shift button.
Again, the gear indicator has a dedicated place on the panel. Turning it off doesn't seem to reduce any "clutter" of any of the other indications displayed, so I'm not sure I see the point of being able to shut it off in the first place.
S.
