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It's impossible to downshift with the paddles. The paddles aren't shifters. They are top gear limiters.
Every time you try and think of or use them as shifters you will be disappointed in them.
That's not true. Even though they are limiters, they will make your car downshift. Say your car is in 4th gear and you set the limiter to be a 3rd gear, the car will downshift to 3rd.
However, it is impossible to upshift using paddle shifters.
That's not true. Even though they are limiters, they will make your car downshift. Say your car is in 4th gear and you set the limiter to be a 3rd gear, the car will downshift to 3rd.
Yes, the car will. Because it's no longer allowed to use anything higher.
That's quite different from directly shifting. (which a manual, or the automatic in the IS-F, can do).
If your car was in 2nd though and you paddle down from 4 to 3, nothing happens.
That's why it's so slow to use the paddles in the ISx50. Because they aren't shifters.
If the car's auto computer is still in 2nd, and you put your S mode in 4th, I fear the bigger problem is your bad choice of gears lol
FYI- 4 is the default it puts it in when you first move the stick into S mode
The main point was you never directly shift the car... the only thing you can ever do it lock out, or allow, the higher range of gears as available or not to the fully automatic transmission.
FYI- 4 is the default it puts it in when you first move the stick into S mode
The main point was you never directly shift the car... the only thing you can ever do it lock out, or allow, the higher range of gears as available or not to the fully automatic transmission.
If you are going fast enough, it will actually put it in 5th gear when you move it to S gear.
12-18-10, 01:11 PM
