Driving Mode Use Cases

[NinjaRaptor]

What mode does everyone use in heavy rain driving on the highway? I am quite used to driving my MB Suv AWD doing about 70 ish mph. It's summer time here now in FL so we do get the typical heavy afternoon shower rains. Is it better to keep the truck in 2wd or 4A?

 

[CigarPundit]

Depends on how heavy, but usually I keep it in Sport on the street, but go 4A in the rain. If it’s really bad out, I’ll put it rain/snow mode.

 

[Nex]

Normally in normal drive mode. Seems to handle the Starbucks parking lot just fine. Even in hard rain or snow. Going over the mountain passes in the snow I might throw it in 4a, if I see semis chaining up.

 

[CigarPundit]

It has such a long wheel base that drifting it is like taking candy from a baby. So it really doesn’t matter for the rain.

 

[isis]

I use 4A if the roads are anything but dry. Normal shifts so bad I use Sport and really like the drive more. It’s annoying af to me that you can’t bump it up a gear when it’s hanging on a downhill at 4k rpms. I had a 2005 Subaru and have a 2017 DCT motorcycle that can do this. It’s infuriating that the paddles or buttons do absolutely nothing useful in auto mode.

 

[CigarPundit]

I use 4A if the roads are anything but dry. Normal shifts so bad I use Sport and really like the drive more. It’s annoying af to me that you can’t bump it up a gear when it’s hanging on a downhill at 4k rpms. I had a 2005 Subaru and have a 2017 DCT motorcycle that can do this. It’s infuriating that the paddles or buttons do absolutely nothing useful in auto mode.

The left paddle will subtract one gear from the top with each pull, and the right paddle will add it back in Auto mode. Also, if you give it a blip of throttle on the downhill, it will upshift. Or just move the lever to M and select the gear you want. I‘d rather have it hang at 4k downhill than ride the brakes.

 

[blwn]

I use 4A if the roads are anything but dry. Normal shifts so bad I use Sport and really like the drive more. It’s annoying af to me that you can’t bump it up a gear when it’s hanging on a downhill at 4k rpms. I had a 2005 Subaru and have a 2017 DCT motorcycle that can do this. It’s infuriating that the paddles or buttons do absolutely nothing useful in auto mode.

It would be nice if we had the option to get the Gen3 programming which makes the paddles act as you're describing

 

[isis]

The left paddle will subtract one gear from the top with each pull, and the right paddle will add it back in Auto mode. Also, if you give it a blip of throttle on the downhill, it will upshift. Or just move the lever to M and select the gear you want. I‘d rather have it hang at 4k downhill than ride the brakes.

Yeah blipping the throttle just makes it hold longer. The only way to coax an up shift out of it is to hold it steady and slowly accelerate. Anything abrupt makes it downshift harder. And this is a 1/2 mile hill on the way to the park, not somewhere I’d ever downshift a manual vehicle and ride it at 4k rpm’s. It’s just odd behavior imo.

 

[isis]

It would be nice if we had the option to get the Gen3 programming which makes the paddles act as you're describing

I didn’t know they eventually came to their senses. Good to know at least.

 

[jeanco]

What mode does everyone use in heavy rain driving on the highway? I am quite used to driving my MB Suv AWD doing about 70 ish mph. It's summer time here now in FL so we do get the typical heavy afternoon shower rains. Is it better to keep the truck in 2wd or 4A?

slippery mode is made for,quotation from one of teacher at Assault.