Paddle shifter?
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Hi everyone,
I have a 350, and what I'm about to ask will be very noob, so please bear with me. Since I don't know how to drive a stick
, I don't have the concepts required to use the paddle shifter
. I heard it can prevent unnecessary upshift/down shift, so you get more control of your car. And that when cruising at high speed (~70mph), manually down shift will give you a little extra acceleration when you hit the gas.
I tried to mess with it yesterday, but did not work. Any insights?![Sad](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/sad.gif)
Thanks
I have a 350, and what I'm about to ask will be very noob, so please bear with me. Since I don't know how to drive a stick
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I tried to mess with it yesterday, but did not work. Any insights?
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Thanks
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The paddles on the 2IS models are not "true" paddle shifters...they do not shift whenever you want it too. They are "high gear limiters". For example, if you are at a stop light on a 45 mph road in "S" mode. You can select 4th gear using the paddles or toggling the shifter up; that will have set you high-gear. Light turns green, you accelerate through the gears as normal until you hit 4th gear. Assuming you keep traveling on that road for a good distance enough to get to speed, you will reach 4th gear...no higher. Your motor will just keep reving up in that gear until it reaches red line, unless you select the next highest gear.
Hope that helps!
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Also would like to put out there if people drove with the paddle shifters only for a week I think we would finally stop getting all the haters hatin on em. You can control when the car shifts yes not EXACTLY but pretty darn close (for me within a second at the most) if you learn how to use them right... Coming from a manual helps.
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That said, you don't really want to use them to replace your brakes on a regular basis. Brakes are a lot cheaper to replace than engines or transmissions.
It's fine to use em to avoid fade coming down out of the mountains or something, but day to day normal street driving, use the brake pedal, that's what it's there for, and puts a lot less stress on the drivetrain than constant engine braking does.
That said, the paddles are utterly useless for something like a drag race. Leave it in D and ECT-Normal and you'll beat a guy trying to use the paddles every time. The computer is way, way way faster than you are and as noted, the paddles don't directly shift the car anyway... so all you're doing with the paddles is delaying the chance for the FULLY AUTOMATIC transmission to shift at the appropriate time and risking a time-killing bounce off the rev limiter.