Questions for my first truck (Volvo)

I'm hoping to upgrade to the premium shifter with full manual mode soon, what's it called? Doesn't Volvo call it progressive shifting or something? I have the basic shifter now and hate not being able to downshift when I want. Upgrading from 425 to 500 hp helped but not enough.

 

You can install premium shifter but kick down mode is just a parameter change really quick to do and it will downshift based on the accelerator pedal when u kick all the way down the last 1/4 inch click that’s the down shift than u just got to hold rpm up about 800 to 1k to upgrade shifter but it does come in handy. I did it on all mine but with drivers it’s hard to explain to them how to drive manual.

 

Performance mode seems to handle that just fine on the company Volvo I drive.

JD

 

Yes but performance mode usually comes with upgraded shifter and has to be turned on from tecu it holds the rpm higher to shift still lags on down shifts a little bit b

 

Wish I had known that about kickdown just being a perameter change. My dealer doesn’t know that. I asked for it when I upgraded to 500hp and they told me only with upgraded shifter. Dang, been driving it without for a year.

 

Next time u are in Chicago I can change the parameter for u.