Anyone actually like the skip shift feature?
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Anyone actually like the skip shift feature?
Call me silly, but I actually like the skip shift feature. Yes, yes, almost everybody else hates it. Fine. I'd like to hear if anyone else LIKES it, and why? 
When I drive in packed urban areas, I find myself accelerating very slowly lest I hit the pack of cars in front of me. I find that even without the skip shift I am shifting from 1st to 4th anyway. Seems to give a smoother ride, less shifting, and better gas mileage.
Now, when I'm driving like I stole it, its a whole different matter. I've never had the skip shift feature interfere with my Nascar aspirations...
When I drive in packed urban areas, I find myself accelerating very slowly lest I hit the pack of cars in front of me. I find that even without the skip shift I am shifting from 1st to 4th anyway. Seems to give a smoother ride, less shifting, and better gas mileage.
Now, when I'm driving like I stole it, its a whole different matter. I've never had the skip shift feature interfere with my Nascar aspirations...
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You'll like it until some cell phone yakking bitch behind you runs into your car because of your "unplanned" change in acceleration rate. Oh,I almost forgot,she was farding too. That's important!
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Originally Posted by NORTY
You'll like it until some cell phone yakking bitch behind you runs into your car because of your "unplanned" change in acceleration rate. Oh,I almost forgot,she was farding too. That's important!
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From: Long Island NY
Originally Posted by wt2ga
Yes, I love it because it removes the Gas Guzzler tax from the sticker and it is easily bypassed ....
I removed the CAGS the 2nd day I had the car. I'll shift from 1st to 4th if I want to... but not because the car wants me to.
I actually feel that going from 1st to 4th is too big of a jump. You need to either wind up 1st gear "too high" in order to drop into 4th with adequate rpm, or you may lug... overall not good for the drivetrain unless you are REALLY just creeping along at a snail's pace on a dead level surface or downhill.
And as others have stated, IF you needed to take off fast for some reason at the point when CAGS kicks in, the CAGS will only serve to provide you with just enough delay to possibly keep you from leaping out of harm's way.
I find that shifting from 1st to 3rd etc, or shifting from 1st, 2nd and then to 4th etc works out just fine and I do it often. 1st to 4th though...
Goodbye guzzler tax, hello $20 CAGS eliminator kit... GM did it right!
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Originally Posted by johnodrake
If you are accelerating with any gusto at all, you will never experience the "joy" of skip shift
In any case, anyone actually LIKE it? (original post question?)
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The only ones who think they like CAGS are the ones who live in a boy racer dream. They drive their cars as if entered in some sort of race. They think quite highly of their own driving skills, and to admit that the CAGS causes them any concern whatsoever is to admit that they may be 2nd rate or 2nd place racers. They have 'never' missed a shift in their lives.
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
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Originally Posted by Hoonose
The only ones who think they like CAGS are the ones who live in a boy racer dream. They drive their cars as if entered in some sort of race. They think quite highly of their own driving skills, and to admit that the CAGS causes them any concern whatsoever is to admit that they may be 2nd rate or 2nd place racers. They have 'never' missed a shift in their lives.
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
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It saved you a $3,000.00 gas guzzler tax, so you ought to love it. A 50 cent Radio Shack resistor is all you need, so it's really a $2999.50 saving. Still not a bad deal.
I'll bet the companies selling 20 and 30 dollar "modules" with nothing more than a resistor inside love CAGS, they've made a fortune from it.
Do a search on installuniversity Radio Shack mod for the straight poop.
Radio Shack even got in on the profit. They used to be 4 for .99, recently went to 50 cents apiece. Still beats 3 grand. Those Viper folks love to just throw the money away. Check out a Viper MSRP window sticker some day, they get the gas guzzler and luxury tax.
I'll bet the companies selling 20 and 30 dollar "modules" with nothing more than a resistor inside love CAGS, they've made a fortune from it.
Do a search on installuniversity Radio Shack mod for the straight poop.
Radio Shack even got in on the profit. They used to be 4 for .99, recently went to 50 cents apiece. Still beats 3 grand. Those Viper folks love to just throw the money away. Check out a Viper MSRP window sticker some day, they get the gas guzzler and luxury tax.
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Originally Posted by Hoonose
The only ones who think they like CAGS are the ones who live in a boy racer dream. They drive their cars as if entered in some sort of race. They think quite highly of their own driving skills, and to admit that the CAGS causes them any concern whatsoever is to admit that they may be 2nd rate or 2nd place racers. They have 'never' missed a shift in their lives.
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
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Originally Posted by ZBoater
Call me silly, but I actually like the skip shift feature. Yes, yes, almost everybody else hates it. Fine. I'd like to hear if anyone else LIKES it, and why?
When I drive in packed urban areas, I find myself accelerating very slowly lest I hit the pack of cars in front of me. I find that even without the skip shift I am shifting from 1st to 4th anyway. Seems to give a smoother ride, less shifting, and better gas mileage.
Now, when I'm driving like I stole it, its a whole different matter. I've never had the skip shift feature interfere with my Nascar aspirations...
When I drive in packed urban areas, I find myself accelerating very slowly lest I hit the pack of cars in front of me. I find that even without the skip shift I am shifting from 1st to 4th anyway. Seems to give a smoother ride, less shifting, and better gas mileage.
Now, when I'm driving like I stole it, its a whole different matter. I've never had the skip shift feature interfere with my Nascar aspirations...
Melting Slicks
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Originally Posted by Hoonose
The only ones who think they like CAGS are the ones who live in a boy racer dream. They drive their cars as if entered in some sort of race. They think quite highly of their own driving skills, and to admit that the CAGS causes them any concern whatsoever is to admit that they may be 2nd rate or 2nd place racers. They have 'never' missed a shift in their lives.
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
CAGS eliminators = lesser men
Boy, you really nailed them b*&(&& ds!!! I bet they own guns, too!
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CAGS is great for city driving, it makes your 6 speed into a 2 speed, and that is fine for traffic. My Boxster doesn't have CAGS, but I always shift 1 to 4, or 1 to 3, while driving in traffic.
In non-traffic situations it is not an issue, because if you want to accelerate hard, CAGS does not come into play.
In non-traffic situations it is not an issue, because if you want to accelerate hard, CAGS does not come into play.
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In over 16 months I think the skip-shift only activated 3 times. I like the fact that it helped to eliminate the 'gas-guzzler' tax and for all practical purposes...it was not a problem. The few times it did engage...it was a PITA.
With the LPE 403 package, the skip-shift has been eliminated for good (not that it would have ever engaged now anyway
).
With the LPE 403 package, the skip-shift has been eliminated for good (not that it would have ever engaged now anyway
).