Downshifting with paddle shifters while in auto

[jboogie1289]

I also have an H pipe installed on my active exhaust PP and man it sounds sick downshifting with pops.

X-Pipe here and you’re correct!! It’s mad aggressive and I Love it!!!!!!

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[SmoothButter]

I still haven’t touched my paddles, I’m going to give it a shot today

 

[young at heart]

I still haven’t touched my paddles, I’m going to give it a shot today

They‘re kinda fun really. You can’t really mess anything up so give it a try.

I‘ll tell you where mine came in the most handy. My 22-23 Mach 1 automatics had a nasty habit of downshifting WAY too aggressively from 3 down to 2 when the car was going even a little downhill under slight braking. I mean, the engine would often rev up to 6000. There were times I thought it might hit the limiter, no kidding. So I learned to keep my finger on the “up“ paddle in that situation to keep it in 3rd instantly if I needed to. Worked great!

 

[SmoothButter]

They‘re kinda fun really. You can’t really mess anything up so give it a try.

I‘ll tell you where mine came in the most handy. My 22-23 Mach 1 automatics had a nasty habit of downshifting WAY too aggressively from 3 down to 2 when the car was going even a little downhill under slight braking. I mean, the engine would often rev up to 6000. There were times I thought it might hit the limiter, no kidding. So I learned to keep my finger on the “up“ paddle in that situation to keep it in 3rd instantly if I needed to. Worked great!

I just used my paddle shifters for the first time....OH MY GOODNESS! IT IS AMAZINGGGG

I love it this car is so awesome I had a blast on my drive today!

Any way to get aggressive downshifting to be in sport mode? I'm assuming not

Also any issues with hitting the redline sometimes?

 

[fishinrich]

It's better then the day I found out I could lean my seat back a bit further using the manual thing on the side of the seat. Power just wasn't giving me enough.

I wouldn't hit red line too many times

 

[RLE55]

I still haven’t touched my paddles, I’m going to give it a shot today

Same here, but we haven't logged many miles in it yet, hope to make up for that this year.

 

[glenng6]

I still haven’t touched my paddles, I’m going to give it a shot today

Just Do It! Like the commercials say. Once you try it, you'll never go back. You have 10 gears to play with. Manual guys get excited over just 6! Can you imagine having an extra 4 inches, oops, I meant gears! My Stang, approximately 1,300 miles, down and up shifts smoother than when new, so not knowing your particulars, your synchronizers might need breaking in. The synchronizers will prevent you from doing any damage. Avoid 4-3 above 35 mph or 3-2 above 25 mph. Not that it won't work, but you may not like it. If you do something really stupid, the transmission will yell at you and won’t allow it to happen. It is best after you downshift the first time to glance and see what gear you are in so you don't pull a 3-2 or 2-1 at too high a speed. Don't bother downshifting to 1 while doing normal driving because you have to be going so slow it doesn't matter. You DO NOT have to be in M to downshift. Glenn

 

[SmoothButter]

Just Do It! Like the commercials say. Once you try it, you'll never go back. You have 10 gears to play with. Manual guys get excited over just 6! Can you imagine having an extra 4 inches, oops, I meant gears! My Stang, approximately 1,300 miles, down and up shifts smoother than when new, so not knowing your particulars, your synchronizers might need breaking in. The synchronizers will prevent you from doing any damage. Avoid 4-3 above 35 mph or 3-2 above 25 mph. Not that it won't work, but you may not like it. If you do something really stupid, the transmission will yell at you and won’t allow it to happen. It is best after you downshift the first time to glance and see what gear you are in so you don't pull a 3-2 or 2-1 at too high a speed. Don't bother downshifting to 1 while doing normal driving because you have to be going so slow it doesn't matter. You DO NOT have to be in M to downshift. Glenn

What’s the point of M?

 

[brian5814]

I actually use them when pulling up into my garage.
My driveway is asphalt to the garage, but it is 15 degree incline in one spot about 7 degree going up then to the right into the garage, the GT BARELY crosses the threshold where it goes from asphalt to concrete garage, clearance, ugh, lol.
But going up the hill, if i let it downshift to 1st in the last bit, it is kind of a kathunk, so, I've learned to downshift before that last bit of slow approach. I find use in other places to where I know I'm going to need or want to go down.
Finding more to get psyched about every day on this thing, and then of course a bunch of nits, but, heck, all it takes is one throttle push to forget any nits

Sport mode does a pretty credible job downshifting for you; if you stop a bit more quickly than just dawdling, she will do the rev match for you and it sounds pretty good as well.

what sounds even better is when you’re doing it manually why would you buy a car like this in automatic unless your racing

 

[glenng6]

what sounds even better is when you’re doing it manually why would you buy a car like this in automatic unless your racing

Oh! I don't know, maybe you can ask the smile on my face! I have driven manuals for many, many years, going back to the 1960s (circa GTO and Plymouth Fury) and I will tell you this ain't your Grandma's automatic! Glenn

 

[fishinrich]

My first two mustangs were manuals. Yup, it's fun rowing through the gears.

Getting older, things start hurting, just looking for a nice cruiser.

 

[Gregs24]

What’s the point of M?

M holds the gears when you select them. In D it will revert to full auto after 15 seconds or so.

 

[npole]

Still driving in AT when i want a fully relaxed experience. But the M gives to me: the gear doesn't change while at low speed, sounding like I'm driving a family AT car in the traffic; the rev matching on downshift (even when not driving aggressively); and the loud bangs (I do have an H-pipe) while changing gears at 7k RPMs ..it really does a F bang (in AT it changes at a slight lower RPMs, maybe it's more effective, but it doesn't pop the gear).

After decades of manual, I won't come back. I'm a (very) sporty (and track) driver... but maybe I'm getting older.

 

[glenng6]

Still driving in AT when i want a fully relaxed experience. But the M gives to me: the gear doesn't change while at low speed, sounding like I'm driving a family AT car in the traffic; the rev matching on downshift (even when not driving aggressively); and the loud bangs (I do have an H-pipe) while changing gears at 7k RPMs ..it really does a F bang (in AT it changes at a slight lower RPMs, maybe it's more effective, but it doesn't pop the gear).

After decades of manual, I won't come back. I'm a (very) sporty (and track) driver... but maybe I'm getting older.

Aren't we all getting older! But it's better than the alternative! Glenn

 

[caddison524]

Is it a feature that holding the left paddle does NOT drop the lowest/safest gear? or is that a bug on cars ive tested?

My Camaro6 does it on the A8 and was curious.

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