Gear indicator?

[K223]

My guess is they eliminated it because of customer complaints. They literally had to release a Service Message to dealers to explain that it’s normal behavior for the 10R to skip gears; people were bringing their vehicles to the dealer complaining that they weren’t shifting properly. Every time the dealer writes an RO and determines it’s normal operation, the manufacturer gets billed for the time as an NPF.

This is the same reason manufacturers went to dummy gauges and “idiot” lights back in the 90’s, the general public are not well informed and think that any variation in a reading means there is a problem.

How long did it finally take for many dealerships to have a techy guy on staff to explain to owners how to work there infotainment systems and pair a BT device such as there phone to a vehicle? The sales person never barely knew much about the vehicle they were selling.

 

[westwind]

The new trucks don’t come with a printed user manual. The user manual is software based now, you access it through the touchscreen.

Gotcha! I had several “addendum“ looking printed manuals but no main manual. This explains it!

My last new truck was in 2011. Times they are a changin.

 

[raydulce]

Diggin' up an old post. Has anyone found a way to enable the gear indicator always in normal Drive mode? ForScan?

 

[GDITheMan]

My German cars always displayed the gear at all times. Was very helpful on the track.

I just expect that something with paddles will tell you the gear all the time. Why have paddles if you don't have all the information to properly use them.

The newer double clutches in the German cars are smarter than the drivers. My instructor tells me to stop fiddling with the paddles and let the dct do it's job.

 

[cmb396]

I'd like to know too, I cannot seem to find a mode to display the gears in my 23 either. This is while in normal D, and not manual.

 

[blue22raptor]

Bump! Someone please figure out how to allow visible gear indicator in Forscan! I would like it to always be on in normal mode as well!

 

[New recaros]

Yea, I would pay for that

 

[Antho]

Bump! Someone please figure out how to allow visible gear indicator in Forscan! I would like it to always be on in normal mode as well!

It’s not in the configurable data. So forscan isn’t going to do it.

 

[cdodgela]

Currently the only way I've found to constantly see what gear you're in is to get a OBD2 Bluetooth Scan Tool, purchase Car scanner app or a similar app that has the gear and you can have the current gear and some other data while you're at it, on your phone (on Android at least). Not optimal, but it works.

 

[sharkhunt]

Is livinitup on this forum? He did a ton with clusters for these trucks on another forum I frequent.