MDS help

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Ifish1002

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Now I've been seeing and reading a lot about how to get out of MDS mode and one of them is the manual shift method but idk why but when I do that mine only shows 5 gears on the dash i can't shift it to six...if I'm on the highway and try to shift from 5th to 6 it just sits at 5
 

bchap05

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From looking wasn't there a 5 speed Ram in 2011? Mine easily goes into 8 and turns it off. I don't normally do it but my truck does make a noise when in MDS so I wanted to confirm in was MDS and not the truck so I've turned it off a few times to confirm.
 

Devin1349

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Yeah our 2011 Hemi's have a 5 speed automatic transmission
 

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I was under the impression you have the 5 speed in 2011.
2012 is the same trans, but programmed to count an additional low gear only available in manual as a true gear.
 

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If I'm right then i believe it was 2013 the 6 speed came out but didnt last that long until the 8 speed came into the picture
 

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Now I've been seeing and reading a lot about how to get out of MDS mode and one of them is the manual shift method but idk why but when I do that mine only shows 5 gears on the dash i can't shift it to six...if I'm on the highway and try to shift from 5th to 6 it just sits at 5

It should go from 5 to D. There are only 5 speeds that year.
 

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If I'm right then i believe it was 2013 the 6 speed came out but didnt last that long until the 8 speed came into the picture

The 6 came out in 2012.
 
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