What the heck is Tow/haul for?

naturist wrote:
Don't get wrapped up in and all butt-hurt about it. Teaching you to ask questions of the salesman when you pick up the truck, after just giving him enough money to justify a few minutes of his time 'splaining such details constitutes the real meat of the comment.

Umm, not sure when the last time you bought a vehicle was, but trust me, the sales people are not the ones you want to be asking questions to. Follow their advice and your wallet will be the one getting "butt-hurt".

I've bought multiple new Fords in the last couple years and the sales people have very little product knowledge, which is really scary. I would guess about 70% of them can't even operate the SYNC system in the vehicle or even know that F series trucks have "tow/haul". They are there to sell vehicles and get as much money for them as possible. They aren't their to educate you on every feature of your vehicle, though I would think that it would help them sell cars if they were.

Now to keep this thread on topic, as others have stated, it changes the way the transmission shifts and will cause the vehilce to downshift to maintain speed when going down hill. It also keeps the revs up higher. Depending on your trailer size, you should probably lock the truck out of going into 6th gear when towing. This can be done by using the little toggle switch on the gear shift and watching the display on the dash. Pressing the down arrow will lock out gears, I think Ford refers to it as select shift.