Cool unknown features ISF?
Getting out of my car recently recently and noticed “some red” in the guage cluster as I was exiting... smiled as I realized that the car was letting me know that the battery in the key fob was low.
While in D mode you can paddle shift down to activate D manual mode. It can jump straight from 8th gear to 5th with one paddle shift depending on what speed you were cruising in. When you want to go back to a solid D mode without waiting for the car to automatically switch over you hold the right paddle for a couple seconds and it goes back to the large solid D mode.
Using this method lets you drive in D, keep both hands on the wheel and the shifter in D and not have to move it into M manaul mode. Benefits are it will skip down multiple gears with a single paddle shift as it exits out of D mode and becomes semi manaul, but not fully manaul like when you switch over the gear lever to manaul. Once you takr advanatage of the lower gear to pass you then just hold the upshift paddle for a couple seconds and it switches back to D.
Using this method lets you drive in D, keep both hands on the wheel and the shifter in D and not have to move it into M manaul mode. Benefits are it will skip down multiple gears with a single paddle shift as it exits out of D mode and becomes semi manaul, but not fully manaul like when you switch over the gear lever to manaul. Once you takr advanatage of the lower gear to pass you then just hold the upshift paddle for a couple seconds and it switches back to D.
Re: the windows, one thing I don’t like is that it opens the sunroof as well. On my Infiniti, it only opens the windows. The F is like a wind tunnel anyways—there is no good open window setting to drive in that doesn’t hit you right in the face with a stream of air. Realize this may be nitpicky, but in all honesty this detracts from the nice weather driving experience of the F to me. Best I found is drivers window down, rear drivers window cracked, passenger side windows have to be closed. Sad.
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Joined: Oct 2008
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This is only available on the 2010+ IS XX0 models. I have a 2008 IS300 also and it will only shift using the paddles when the gear lever is shifted to S.