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Post by 152bobby on Mar 15, 2018 14:57:27 GMT
For those of you who have a desiel Auto, when (if at all) do you press the Sport button and use it ?
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Post by philip42h on Mar 15, 2018 15:16:23 GMT
The 4.4 has three modes: Eco, Normal and Sport. If you ignore the first six months when I just had to play with all the modes, I never, ever use Eco and only very occasionally use Sport - if I'm behind something slow and want to be able to overtake quickly as and when the opportunity arises. I could easily live without it altogether though it would be better if the button was a little more readily accessible.
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Post by charliefarlie on Mar 15, 2018 17:34:54 GMT
Never for me. Don’t bother with the paddles either.
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Post by unclebob on Mar 15, 2018 20:59:19 GMT
Not quite the same but my Lexus I just leave in (PWR) power mode ...just never know when you need it 😉
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Post by jasehutch on Mar 15, 2018 21:40:10 GMT
If I put the wee IQ in "S" it flies.... Trouble is it then tends to burn a little fuel...  |
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Post by unclebob on Mar 15, 2018 22:04:23 GMT
If I put the wee IQ in "S" it flies.... Trouble is it then tends to burn a little fuel...  That must mean Charlie never uses the S setting then ! .............word “fumes” springs to mind 😎 |
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Post by charliefarlie on Mar 16, 2018 9:32:20 GMT
If I put the wee IQ in "S" it flies.... Trouble is it then tends to burn a little fuel... That must mean Charlie never uses the S setting then ! .............word “fumes” springs to mind 😎 The only time I get to drive the automatic IQ is to put fuel in it. Not much mind cos it runs on fumes. Did I ever mention that ? The manual one has no sport setting so cannot be in any other mode than fume burning which is what it does. Did I ever mention that ? |
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Post by three5 on Mar 16, 2018 16:40:07 GMT
That must mean Charlie never uses the S setting then ! .............word “fumes” springs to mind 😎 The only time I get to drive the automatic IQ is to put fuel in it. Not much mind cos it runs on fumes. Did I ever mention that ? The manual one has no sport setting so cannot be in any other mode than fume burning which is what it does. Did I ever mention that ? Hi Charlie, I'm going to buy you a couple of tubes of lighter fuel for Christmas - should run the IQ for about 6 months |
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Post by davidwilson on Mar 16, 2018 17:14:15 GMT
I have an economy button on the CRV - I tried it for a couple of days and then decided not to use it. I drive, most of the time, economically anyway. The one thing I noticed it did do was to dampen the response of the cruise control which I don't want.
It does have a Sport setting beyond Drive: I think it changes up at higher revs but I don't really use it. The only time I do is when descending the steep hill outside my house in the snow - the idea being that it keeps in first gear as I go down slowly and doesn't suddenly change into second (in truth this is probably a waste of time). It also has a hill descent button and I really should try that out.
I do use the paddles a bit but not often. Mostly to change down a gear, or two, for engine braking when going down a hill and I want to restrict the speed.
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Post by phaeton on Mar 18, 2018 8:46:28 GMT
Not quite the same but my Lexus I just leave in (PWR) power mode ...just never know when you need it 😉
The SLK has 2 modes C for Comfort & S for Sport, although the manual says leave it in Sport as Standard, I wonder if that is a lost in translation thing. Either way I leave it in C most of the time unless on a very rare occasion I need to make a fast overtake.
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Post by Hoovie on Mar 18, 2018 9:36:05 GMT
For those of you who have a desiel Auto, when (if at all) do you press the Sport button and use it ? My DS5 had an "S" button which I tried a few times but never really noticed a difference with. On the topic of the "Flappy Paddles", I occasionally use to drive in Manual Mode and used them rather than the gearstick + and - positions to change gear as far more convenient and faster to use. In Auto Mode, I also used the Steering Wheel Paddles when driving more 'enthusiastically' to change up. I found the PSA Robotized Semi-Automatic Gearbox would change down gears seamlessly, but changes up could be a bit jerky if pressing on a bit on the country roads I tends to drive on mostly - and manually changing up worked well, especially as it was clutchless. On the RAV4 SR, I tried the S button a few times as well - again, couldn't really see much difference. I mostly tried to see if it changed the characteristics of the Cruise Control. It sounds like the RAV4 Cruise is very different to Davidwilsons CRV! I always found the RAV4 Cruise way too eager to resume the set speed and I would have loved a way to dampen it down  On the RAV4 I DID use the paddles sometimes to change up a gear when the Cruise decided it was time to go into Boy Racer mode and drop a gear - and sometimes two  - to get back up to speed ASAP. The Paddles cancelled the cruise so just got back up to speed normally and then re-engaged it. I found the RAV4 Autobox REALLY good and smooth, but the Cruise was absolutely awful and a total mismatch to the type of car, at least on the country roads I drive on (as a comparision, the DS5 Cruise and Auto combo were great - speed resumed at a normal pace and you could use the downshift paddle if you wanted it to get back to the set speed a little faster) |
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Post by Mb2t on Mar 18, 2018 17:16:02 GMT
On the manual RAV4.4, I could not notice any difference (not in acceleration, not in the point of the shift indicator light, nor in the fuel consumption). Gave up on it.
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- to get back up to speed ASAP. The Paddles cancelled the cruise so just got back up to speed normally and then re-engaged it.