jim spitzer

after having my car for a month and 1000 miles Yesterday and today I seen it go into 8th gear. I had to go on the fl turnpike where the speed limit is 70. all is good

thrilled

So are you saying that you don't put it in 8th til your doing 70 mph?

kenrobb

I noticed cruising on highway, you have to be about 70 to 75 to go into 8th. Otherwise you are in 7th. Gas mileage goes up the faster you drive to get into 8th.

sclaxton

wandering around the city at no more that 55 mph the automatic will stay in 7th. The automatic transmission is geared so that the car runs at a low enough RPM that it can say in the lower gear. On the freeway to lower the RPMs it will go into 8th for the fuel efficiency.

lakemg

Technically 7th and 8th gears are overdrive gears and you need to be rolling pretty fast for 8th gear to be in an rpm range that isn't lugging the engine.

MAKC7

Can "cruise" at a good speed in 6th and less than 2,000 RPMs.

95bat

You do have to get moving a bit, glad it works lol. 1,000 miles and haven't gone too fast yet?

Mine goes into 8th at about 60 mph.

05XLRtoC7_San Diego

This is probably a dumb question- but other than putting it in manual mode, how do you know what gear it's in?
Mine just shows "D" for drive in the instrument cluster and heads-up display (regardless of track, touring, etc display mode).
The only way to get it to show the gear is to move it to manual mode (e.g. upshift or downshift with the paddle, or physically move the shift lever to "M").
Is there a way to see the gear # changes when it's in full automatic mode?

jim spitzer

when in auto next to the D is the number for what gear your in. just the same when you shift in the M mode

jcp911s

The graphics on this display are not well designed... the background is highlighted, and the gear display is white, but it is there if you look closely.

alamo1974

05XLRtoC7_San Diego

Hmmmmm....don't see it on mine- a few photos.
Can you please post a photo from your car. I must be looking in the wrong spot.