Snow Mode
10-25-20, 03:07 PM
#46
Lexus Test Driver
No Snow Mode in our 2017.
10-25-20, 03:14 PM
#47
No such thing on a 2018. Did you get a manual with your car? (Trying to imagine why a person in Florida cares about snow mode ....)
10-25-20, 03:16 PM
#48
Lexus Test Driver
10-25-20, 03:52 PM
#50
Youtube has a video on an older ES model -- it was a "start easy" mode transmission setting. On Gen. 4, you can lock the 4 wheels below 20 mph., if that's helpful to dealing with a snow situation.
10-25-20, 05:53 PM
#52
For me it used to be when you would press the “pages” button on the steering wheel, the going up/down until I saw ECT Snow”. When I press and hold the pages on my 2018 all it does is sets the default page.
10-25-20, 05:55 PM
#53
also, I used to live in Miami, now I am in Wyoming.
10-25-20, 05:59 PM
#54
Also, please note my 2018 is AWD, I do have the AWD Lock button. Just don’t have ECT snow. A friend of mine has it in her 2015. So I have to guess they removed it for the 2016 redesign?
10-26-20, 05:29 AM
#55
My guess is that the "snow mode" (2nd gear start off) is the default from 2016 on and the car only goes into 1st if you make a very quick start from a stop, it was so in my MB E350 4Matic. There is plenty of torque in the V6 to operate this way.
10-26-20, 09:46 AM
#56
Driver School Candidate
As others have mentioned in this thread, setting the drive mode selector to "Eco" seems to emulate most of what the ECT Snow Mode function did (dulls throttle response and changes transmission shift points to lower RPM). It won't start the transmission in 2nd gear as far as I'm aware, but you might be able to accomplish that on your own using the sport shift mode on the transmission gear lever. A combination of Eco and locking the center diff should be sufficient to get you out of whatever scenarios Snow Mode would have helped with.
10-26-20, 10:17 AM
#57
As others have mentioned in this thread, setting the drive mode selector to "Eco" seems to emulate most of what the ECT Snow Mode function did (dulls throttle response and changes transmission shift points to lower RPM). It won't start the transmission in 2nd gear as far as I'm aware, but you might be able to accomplish that on your own using the sport shift mode on the transmission gear lever. A combination of Eco and locking the center diff should be sufficient to get you out of whatever scenarios Snow Mode would have helped with.
10-26-20, 10:45 AM
#58
Lexus Test Driver
He probably means since there's less throttle response in ECO, you're less likely to spin your wheels in slippery road conditions in that mode.
