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Originally Posted by Max23
The 10 spd in tow/haul will seem to shift quicker as well, only because it will not skip any gears when set to tow. In standard D it will skip gears as it deems appropriate. It is also much more aggressive to downshift when set to tow. Of course to help with slowing down a load. All makes sense, but as stated, that 1st gear is really low and we all grew up with having 1st in our manual pickups being what we referred to as, granny gear. Used only when necessary. Thats kinda where I come up with the "not sure why they don't skip it when not in tow mode" mentality. Maybe I'm just old. LOL. Grew up on the farm, used to driving large grain trucks, tractors and whatever you could throw at me. Only used granny gear under load. Hard to teach an old dog I guess. Thats why I revert to , I'm no engineer and I'll go with their expertise.
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I just did a quick test and forced it to stay in 1st. I hit 2000 rpm’s at 15 mph so it isn’t too too low of a gear ratio.