Relocate Tow/Haul Button?

[Eric1976]

Does anyone know if it's possible to relocate the tow/haul button on a 2015 2500 to somewhere like the shift lever? Pretty sure I know the answer but just thought I'd throw it out there anyways!

 

[Grams]

It ‘s just a latching relay….I suppose anything can be done …but WHY? It’s not something you repeatedly turn off-and-on.

 

[62Blazer]

On one hand it's just a switch so moving it wouldn't be that hard. On the other hand trying to incorporate it into the shifter adds a lot complexity, especially if you want it to look nice and integrated versus just hacked on.
I'm curious as to why you want to do this?

 

[mtofell]

Yeah, I've never cared for the location. My old Ford had it on the end of the column shifter and it was nice for inducing the some engine braking coming off the freeway.

Holding the manual gear select button down for a couple seconds coming off the freeway usually puts the tranny in 2 which accomplishes pretty much the same thing.

 

[Filthy Filbert]

I understand the why.
The factory location is really poor and not intuitive. I've had my truck for about 10 months now, and towed a few times. Each time I've been like "where's the damn button?!"

But I'm not sure that I would want to relocate it for fear of it looking hacked and potentially reducing reliability

 

[Dean2]

Filthy- on my 2021 2500, the Tow/Haul button is with the factory trailer brake adjuster, and the on/off buttons for the front and rear sensors. Seems like a pretty intuitive and out of the way location to me.

To mtofell, as far as using the tow haul to introduce engine braking coming off the freeway, you already have the gear limiter buttons right on the steering wheel. I use those all the time when driving and drive my vehicles more like a manual than an automatic. I also use them to keep my revs higher than the programming would so the engine isn't lugging around town. I don't see the advantage of using another button that doesn't do that job near as well.

All that said, to Eric the OP - it is a simple switch. It would not be hard to relocate it.

 

[Filthy Filbert]

Guess I'm still used to my 06 where it was on the shifter, which is where it was on the Dakota I had before the 2500, and where it was on the Durango I had before that, and were it is on other brands of vehicles I've driven...

The more I tow, I'm sure muscle memory will eventually kick in, but for now, my instinct is not to look in the middle of the dash below the radio for it.

 

[62Blazer]

I guess you want to be able to easily toggle in on and off while you drive? However I don't think it was intended to be toggled on and off....rather you hook up a trailer and turn it on and leave it on until you unhook the trailer. As mentioned if you want engine braking I just use the buttons to manually downshift.

 

[turkeybird56]

^^^ DITTO ^^^

 

[diymirage]

I was just driving my boys charger, his shifter has a the 'autostick' button on it, maybe you could swap one of those in and and that button ?

 

[tjfdesmo]

I would much prefer it on the shifter, too. With the Aux switches it is buried amongst a bunch of like-sized buttons, so it pretty much requires looking down to hit the right one, and having old eyes, and bifocals doesn't help. I'd like the exhaust brake to be on the wheel like the gear limit buttons, and with On/Off being separate from the two modes, more like a real Jake arrangement.

 

[Wild one]

Gotta say i loved the paddle shifters on my old 14's 8 speed,they were one of the better things i did to the truck 10 years ago.They were more precise then the buttons on the wheel,pull either one once and it shifted,no stabbing at the little button on the wheel several times hoping it shifted,i also liked them better then the tiptronic paddles in the wifes last 2 Challengers and our 300

 

[Ken226]

Gotta say i loved the paddle shifters on my old 14's 8 speed,they were one of the better things i did to the truck 10 years ago.They were more precise then the buttons on the wheel,pull either one once and it shifted,no stabbing at the little button on the wheel several times hoping it shifted,i also liked them better then the tiptronic paddles in the wifes last 2 Challengers and our 300

The wife's Durango R/T has those.

I love them. She hates them and had me disable them in the Uconnect screen.

I still turn that **** back on whenever I drive it though!

 

[mtofell]

I don't see the advantage of using another button that doesn't do that job near as well.

Yeah, my Ford didn't have the gear limiter so the T/H was the closest thing. I do enjoy the Ram limiter for sure.... pretty much use it every time I come off the freeway.

 

[Wild one]

The wife's Durango R/T has those.

I love them. She hates them and had me disable them in the Uconnect screen.

I still turn that **** back on whenever I drive it though!

I never turned them off,but i also never used them either,i used the console shifter all the time though.
Once i got used to pulling the console shifter back to make an upshift,that's all i ever used.Took awhile to get used to pulling it backwards to make the upshift though,as that's backasswards to every other car i owned with a console shifter,lol

 

[Ken226]

I never turned them off,but i also never used them either,i used the console shifter all the time though.
Once i got used to pulling the console shifter back to make an upshift,that's all i ever used.Took awhile to get used to pulling it backwards to make the upshift though,as that's backasswards to every other car i owned with a console shifter,lol

Yea, That's the same shifter as in the Durango. I played with after we bought it in Albuquerque during the long drive back up to WA state.

A vast improvement over the 6 speed console shifter in my Ram.

Russel at Sound German Automotive called it the "AutoStick" shifter. He said that he could easily flash the Ram 8hp70 to work with that shifter, if I wanted to transplant one into my truck.

 

[Ken226]

I never turned them off,but i also never used them either,i used the console shifter all the time though.
Once i got used to pulling the console shifter back to make an upshift,that's all i ever used.Took awhile to get used to pulling it backwards to make the upshift though,as that's backasswards to every other car i owned with a console shifter,lol

It might even be doable without reflashing anything. In the BCM with alfaOBD:



But, would require sourcing a different connector and making an adapter. I have no idea if the rotary shifter and the autostick use the same connector or not.

 

[Wild one]

Yea, That's the same shifter as in the Durango. I played with after we bought it in Albuquerque during the long drive back up to WA state.

A vast improvement over the 6 speed console shifter in my Ram.

Russel at Sound German Automotive called it the "AutoStick" shifter. He said that he could easily flash the Ram 8hp70 to work with that shifter, if I wanted to transplant one into my truck.

Other then operating backasswards from every other console shifter i've owned,it was great.Once i got in the habit of pulling it back to upshift i loved it,but it took awhile to get over pushing it ahead to upshift.I slammed it down a gear or 2 by accident on her old 2016 Challenger before i got used to pulling it back to upshift

 

[Wild one]

It might even be doable without reflashing anything. In the BCM with alfaOBD:

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But, would require sourcing a different connector and making an adapter. I have no idea if the rotary shifter and the autostick use the same connector or not.

Correct me if i'm wrong,but i think that's for the cars Nag1 not the trucks RFE.Our 300 has the Nag1 and autostick,but it also has the factory paddle shifters ,and i think if the Nag1 cars had factory paddles,they also got the autostick console shifter.
I know my 300's Tazer has the capability of enabling paddle shifters after you add them,but ours already had factory paddles and the auto stick shifter,so i never went into that part of the tazer.All i have it doing is adding the Performance pages and the line lock feature

 

[Ken226]

Correct me if i'm wrong,but i think that's for the cars Nag1 not the trucks RFE.Our 300 has the Nag1 and autostick,but it also has the factory paddle shifters ,and i think if the Nag1 cars had factory paddles,they also got the autostick console shifter.
I know my 300's Tazer has the capability of enabling paddle shifters after you add them,but ours already had factory paddles and the auto stick shifter,so i never went into that part of the tazer.All i have it doing is adding the Performance pages and the line lock feature

I have no idea. It was just a wild ass guess on my part based on Russel at Sound German calling it the "autosticK".

When I mentioned to him how much i like the shifter in the 22 Durango R/T, he said quote: " Oh, Yea, That's the autostick I can flash the truck version of the 8hp70 to work with it".

I just assumed that it was the same thing i remembered seeing in AlfaOBD. Maybe it isn't.