What the heck is Tow/haul for?
I have a new 2013 F150 302V8, 6spd auto, 4x4, long box, extended cab. I am now hauling a 2100kg TT and am wondering what does pressing the Tow/Haul button does. What would I notice with and withou...
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Tow/Haul (has to do with towing and hauling with 'that' vehicle) is for folks
who do NOT either want to or know HOW2 manage and shift a manual tranny themselves
'Automatic' is a tranny that shifts through the gears 'automatically' using
look up tables on HOW2 shift
After too many burned up automatics and the warranties that must have come...the
OEMs invented the 'Tow/Haul' button to further change the look up tables. Telling
the computer that this vehicle is 'hauling' or 'towing' something.
Mainly to protect the automatic from harming itself by NOT staying in a gear
long 'enough', or shifting down a gear to reduce the loading on the engine (both
gasser and diesel...aka ICE)
Amazingly, folks try to defeat the safeties dialed in when the 'Tow/Haul' button
is switched on...to then risk the issues the OEM has invented the 'tow/haul'
button to prevent or avoid
who do NOT either want to or know HOW2 manage and shift a manual tranny themselves
'Automatic' is a tranny that shifts through the gears 'automatically' using
look up tables on HOW2 shift
After too many burned up automatics and the warranties that must have come...the
OEMs invented the 'Tow/Haul' button to further change the look up tables. Telling
the computer that this vehicle is 'hauling' or 'towing' something.
Mainly to protect the automatic from harming itself by NOT staying in a gear
long 'enough', or shifting down a gear to reduce the loading on the engine (both
gasser and diesel...aka ICE)
Amazingly, folks try to defeat the safeties dialed in when the 'Tow/Haul' button
is switched on...to then risk the issues the OEM has invented the 'tow/haul'
button to prevent or avoid
