Ers steering wheel gear selector

[BrbGettinCoffee]

Hello,

Silly question but omw back from the girlfriends house there is a stretxh of road that is great for more spirited driving. I used the steering wheel controls to hit the "-" and then layed on it and hit the "+" button when I got near the 5800 rpms and the truck went into limp mode.

I was wondering what the best way to have some spirited driving with a 16 ram 1500 with 3.92 gears. Is it best to be around 20-30mph with ers on and at 8 like I do for cruising and then lay on it, or should I downshift using the controls to a proper gear with higher rpms and then lay on it and upshift using the "+" at a certain time?

Ive read in here that if you hold the "-" button it will downshift to the lowest safe avaialble gear at a higher rpm for driving but I was wondering if it will still have the gear lockout set to 8 or would it change that and I have to manually hit the "+" again.

Basically, if for some reason I come across another spirited driver, what would be the optimal way of utilizing the hemi in these things? Dumb question I know but I didnt tealize the "+","-" is just to downshift and to lockout gears and not actually to manully upshift as well. Coming from only spirited driving in manual cars I dont have a clue whats best. Obviously from stop you can sort of ease off the line before opening up since it is in 1st gear but for a "roll" Id appreciate the feed back.

 

[BuschLatte420]

Just punch it

 

[Daw14]

Leave it in drive .

 

[danielmid]

Hello,

Silly question but omw back from the girlfriends house there is a stretxh of road that is great for more spirited driving. I used the steering wheel controls to hit the "-" and then layed on it and hit the "+" button when I got near the 5800 rpms and the truck went into limp mode.

I was wondering what the best way to have some spirited driving with a 16 ram 1500 with 3.92 gears. Is it best to be around 20-30mph with ers on and at 8 like I do for cruising and then lay on it, or should I downshift using the controls to a proper gear with higher rpms and then lay on it and upshift using the "+" at a certain time?

Ive read in here that if you hold the "-" button it will downshift to the lowest safe avaialble gear at a higher rpm for driving but I was wondering if it will still have the gear lockout set to 8 or would it change that and I have to manually hit the "+" again.

Basically, if for some reason I come across another spirited driver, what would be the optimal way of utilizing the hemi in these things? Dumb question I know but I didnt tealize the "+","-" is just to downshift and to lockout gears and not actually to manully upshift as well. Coming from only spirited driving in manual cars I dont have a clue whats best. Obviously from stop you can sort of ease off the line before opening up since it is in 1st gear but for a "roll" Id appreciate the feed back.

Use the "-" to 8th gear on the dash, then drive it spirited, don't worry about shifting it manually. Putting it in 8th will keep MDS off.

 

[crash68]

The ERS + & - buttons are just to lock out gearing and will only be overridden by the transmission if your trying to do something that will damage the transmission(no guarantees something still won't break).
If you like to do some spirited driving, turn the Tow/Haul mode on, it will cause the transmission to try to keep the engine rpms more into the torque band of the engine.

 

[BrbGettinCoffee]

Nice, yeah I did that anyway in the past but never really went pedal to the metal and then remembered the +,- buttons. That makes thing easier knowing to just give it more gas. Thanks, I got all the answers I need

 

[Wild one]

Nice, yeah I did that anyway in the past but never really went pedal to the metal and then remembered the +,- buttons. That makes thing easier knowing to just give it more gas. Thanks, I got all the answers I need

You shouldn't hit limp mode at 5800,limp mode shouldn't happen till your well above 6,000. Most guys use the (+) button and upshift at around 5900 if they're racing their stock trucks. If you hit the plus button at 5800,the truck should make the upshift at about 6,000,which makes me think you were hitting the plus button at 6,000 or higher,as that might put you into limp mode by the time the transmission physically makes the shift.You have to remember the shift goes through the canbus system,so there's a slight delay after you hit the upshift button,before it actually shifts. Quite often it takes a couple stabs at the upshift button to,just because you hit the button once,doesn't mean it's actually changed gears on the dash. One way around that is to add paddle shifters to your steering wheel,as they seem to be a little more precise and will make the truck usually shift before the ERS button will.

 

[BrbGettinCoffee]

Well the paddles are amazing and yeah that very well could have been the case! I would just like to down shift to the great/rpm of choice and then lay on it and just hit the + to unlock it out of that gear. That way I know what rpms ill be at when starting. When just cruising it seems sometimes doesnt feel as mych torque and acceleration as other times and its prob starting in a higher gesr than the time before but no way for me to tell besides my butt lol. I think ill try holding the "-" button to see if it does go to the lowest gear available with high rpms.

 

[Wild one]

Well the paddles are amazing and yeah that very well could have been the case! I would just like to down shift to the great/rpm of choice and then lay on it and just hit the + to unlock it out of that gear. That way I know what rpms ill be at when starting. When just cruising it seems sometimes doesnt feel as mych torque and acceleration as other times and its prob starting in a higher gesr than the time before but no way for me to tell besides my butt lol. I think ill try holding the "-" button to see if it does go to the lowest gear available with high rpms.

It should display the gear your in,if you're using the ERS buttons.Look in the bottom right hand corner of the Evic ,and you should see the gear display.Watch it when you're using the buttons to upshift,just to make sure it's actually made the shift when you hit the upshift button,as quite often one stab at the button isn't enough for it to actually display the next higher gear,and if it's not displaying the next higher gear in the Evic the trucks computor system hasn't actually registered the upshift

 

[BrbGettinCoffee]

I am pretty sure mine just displays the highest gear and not the current one as well, which sucks. Ill recheck though