Holding the current gear
With the advent of the sport mode button being removed and activating on sliding the gear level to the left, how does one go about holding the current gear you're in?
example, in traffic speeding up, and I want to hold this gear as I approach another vehicle. I don't want it to change up and cruise into the car in front, I just want to use the gears to maintain where I am.
Currently I see the only way to achieve this is to slide the gear lever into sports mode, then change up or down a gear and then change back.
1) Is there a better and smoother option?
2) Is there a way that a sports mode button can be (re)-installed, or just have that whole sports mode disabled and allow me to use the left side as a method of changing gears only? ie, left, manual mode; right, auto. I don't really care for the difference in sports and economy/normal anyway
buy a manual!
Hazy 64
Growing Old Disgracefully
if he had wanted a smart assed reply i am sure he would have asked for it......
Reviled did i live as evil i did deliveR
- UNDERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
- OVERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the rear.
- HORSEPOWER is how fast you hit the wall.
- TORQUE is how far you take the wall with you.
Second the buy a manual comment... No offense but all auto drivers always try and get there cars to perform like its got a stick.. Pure laziness In my opinion. Noone should have a go at me because after all this forum is a democracy not a north Korean website.
But in all seriousness there isn't a way unless the auto has been manualised (which is pointless may as well have a manual) or in sport mode.
Think about it,
Once in sports mode, if you change gear, will it not then assume you are selecting gears? I haven't driven a Holden auto so not sure. But in other cars once you select a gear it waits for you to choose the next gear unless you redline it of come to a stop.
Is this it?
Banned
Youve read the manual that came with the car right?
Sports mode once you have flicked across, will hold gears if you begin to manually shift, it will drop a gear if the revs drop too low without your shifting but it is up to you when you shift up a gear.
Think about it,
This thread is confusing because I think people are using the wrong terms
"Sports mode" is turned on by actually pressing the sports button and just changes how the auto changes gears by itself.
"Active select" is the mode where you push the stick to the left and choose the gears yourself.
Anyway, in reply to the "buy a manual" idea... My car wasn't released with the option of a manual, so it wasn't by choice.
I Believe
Nup.Originally Posted by StoneX
This thread is confusing because I think people are using the wrong terms
"Sports mode" is turned on by actually pressing the sports button and just changes how the auto changes gears by itself.
"Active select" is the mode where you push the stick to the left and choose the gears yourself.
Anyway, in reply to the "buy a manual" idea... My car wasn't released with the option of a manual, so it wasn't by choice.
"Sports mode" has no button.... it's selected by moving stick left. Stays in Auto, just changes gears at slightly different rev points.
"Active Select" only occurs when you then move the stick forwards or backwards to manually change gears.
As already said, this is the only way to 'lock' your current gear. Manually change into it.
I am pretty you can get the box tuned to stay in gear without manualising it. Talk to a gearbox specialist or even a tuner may be able to do it.
Yours Kindly,
Jim
Weird... Mine says "Sports shift" on the dash when I press the sport button (which changes shift points and down shifts for engine braking, etc) and when I put the stick to the left the dash says "Active select on" and it will stay in the gear selected unless you slow down too much.
Banned
The Sport button was phased out in MY9.5 or MY10 or something (not sure exactly when). So you're both right. For those with a Sport button, it does what StoneX said. For those without a Sport button, you move the shifter to the left and it activates Sport Auto mode.
i reckon it was earlier than that, my ute was an 08 my8.5 and didnt have it
The Mad Dutchman
Banned
Yeah - like I said - I'm not sure when they did it. But both configurations exist and that's all I was pointing out.
Thanks for letting me know they changed it
I Believe
Very interesting- I didnt know the VE's had the sport button!
StoneX what MY you got?
I don't know MY. It's series 1, Sept 06 build.
Growing Old Disgracefully
depends on how you like it...... mine is an auto, i don't often drive it in tiptronic, even in the twisties. Nothing lazy about owning an auto, that kind of comment is stupid in the extreme. And i AM having a go at you, not because it's a North Korean web site, but because your comment was ill thought out. People like you, and i have met a few, that think because people have an auto they are lazy are usually ill informed. I have an auto because it was all that was available when i looked for a car in the right price range, my wife prefers an auto as well although she can drive a manual. Most with autos prefer the ease in traffic, and at times drive it "like a manual" so what! Are you pissed off because you can't drive yours like an auto?
Try driving an auto in sports mode and force it into full sports mode..... if i drive mine hard into some twisties, on and off the brake a few times it will hold gears all the way to 6,000rpm, and when you come into a corner and touch the brakes it will drop back a couple of gears for you. a LOT of fun! try it... you may even like it.... but you don't have to admit to us that you did... ok?
Reviled did i live as evil i did deliveR
- UNDERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
- OVERSTEER is when you hit the wall with the rear.
- HORSEPOWER is how fast you hit the wall.
- TORQUE is how far you take the wall with you.
But that's the problem, if you decide you want to hold the current gear you are in, unless you are in active select, you can't. Whether in normal or sports mode, you MUST change out of the current gear to activate active select, which in itself, goes against what you are trying to do.
Is there an avenue to return behaviour to the old fashioned way? ie, install a sports button (TBH I don't care if it's there or not), and/or have active select initiated or activate on immediately moving the stick left?
I seriously can't see how the current system is better than the old system. And the crazy part (IMHO) is the Holden claim they got rid of the sports button due to customer feedback. I reiterate what I just asked, why would anyone prefer this over the old way of doing it?
Banned
I guess if people are worried so much about loosing that little bit of performance by having to decide on whether or not they are going to need to hold a gear any time soon or not they probably should have ticked the v8 box.....
The 6 speeds use the gear selector over to the left for sports mode and them active select when you push up and down
The 5 speed used a sport button next to where the beloved trac control button is and then active select to the left
The 4 speed in the omega just had a sport button
Hope that's clears it up
BADNWS
On the Caprice I have a sports button for the spt mode then for active select you just puch the selector to the left n then uts up n down....
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If you stated that is for SERIES 2 then it would clear it up. The SERIES 1 6 speed has a sports button, as said earlier in this thread.The 6 speeds use the gear selector over to the left for sports mode and them active select when you push up and down
The 5 speed used a sport button next to where the beloved trac control button is and then active select to the left
The 4 speed in the omega just had a sport button
Hope that's clears it up
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