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Driving in TOW mode all the time

2.3K views 27 replies 15 participants last post by  jcbrock  
#1 ·
Well after a week. I'm never turning off TOW mode. The trans is SO MUCH more responsive. It holds gears, delays up-shifting, will downshift properly when coming to a stop. I hear & feel it downshifting all the way to 1st gear when coming to a stop. Like a proper car should be. If I need to get on the gas again, it's in the lower gear not the higher gear.
Combined with the throttle controller & the NISMO, it's awesome!
You also get the adding enjoyment of the NISMO as you can hear & feel it much more now.
I'm sure gas mileage will suck & I don't care about that. Wear I'm not concerned about either.
The only negative I can think is you do feel a hard 2-1 shift when coming to a stop. The trunk will lunge as it downshifts. But I'm fine with it.
And Hallelujah !!!!!!! The zip tie works to hold the TOW button on at all times! 😁 😁
I have another 3D print coming this week for that button to match the auto stop/start.
And the cruise control doesn't decide to downshift 4 gears at 80 to keep up 2MPH speed. There was an old thread I saw about using TOW mode for that reason.
YMMV!
 
#14 ·
My 2022 Pro4X was majorly improved with the ICC (Intelligent Cruise Control) update. It was also effective for cruise control in normal mode and also regular driving. The TSB is NTB24-005A, here's the link to the DOT report for the TSB.
NTB24-005A Details.
For me and many others on these forums this TSB fixed the aggressive downshifting to make up a 2 MPH gain. Make sure to complain about severe RPM jumps and aggressive transmission shifting when using cruise control on hills.
 
#16 ·
Firstly, the fix for the cruise he mentioned isn't involving any transmission changes or related to gearing directly. The trans was reacting to input from ADAS.

Having multiple gears and relatively low power is still logical. At 80, though in 9th you might be, you are not maxed out on speed. Change the load (pretend you like racing at a roll from 80) and it WILL downshift. You have 3 over drive, if it only drops one of those that is PERFECT. Having all these gears allow your truck to best use leverage. Or at least try. We can find more faults with programming than the number of gear choices

All this allows for a fairly decent crawl ratio but also good torque multiplication to get things like heavy loads rolling. Then you have several ratios to manage load but at speed. OD... could maybe throw away 9th. Doesn't hurt anything to be there, but a good headwind will drop it to 8th anyway. It "works" and is one reason for CVTs, but glad the truck doesn't have one
 
#27 · (Edited)
Fixing a thing or addressing a complaint that just happens to involve programming is 100% a warranty thing at <3/36k

Going in and just asking for updates could trigger the customer pay scenario.

Im annoyed on your behalf it shook out that way
 
#28 ·
Fixing a thing or addressing a complaint that just happens to involve programming is 100% a warranty thing at <3/36k

Going in and just asking for updates could trigger the customer pay scenario.

Im annoyed on your behalf I shook out that way
I agree with you but was told there is no active recall and there was not actually a problem just that I wanted the truck to behave differently. Another dealership I tried flat out refused to do it at all as there was nothing wrong with me truck.

As I said, it was worth $180 to me to have a truck that behaved as it should.