Big time misleading. Thanks for the clarification.
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I had them turn on gear display in my trans tune years ago, I love it. I've since done it to a '17 using AlfaOBD.
I couldn't get it to work on my 2016, AlfaOBD turned it on but the EVIC didn't have it.
I do have it on my Edge CTS2
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Ya I don't understand why it's able to work on my '16.
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I asked GDE to leave the gear display on and they would not do it for me. They said it can lead to customers not being able to tell if they were in manual gear select mode or not. I’m guessing there was some kind of mishap between when @Bounty Hunter had his gear display turned on and when I asked… makes me wonder what happened. @John Jensen, I have the same issue getting the gear display to stay on manually using an alpha obd. I am still hoping to figure out the current gear PID with Torque PRO, although I still have yet to find it for a ram ecodiesel. I can usually tell by the rpm’s at this point, at least at freeway speeds.
My guess is SFT doesn't know how to do it, thus their excuses. I'm assuming SFT is saying the mod would overwrite the manual gear select display. Maybe Bounty can tell us. It would take a pretty dumb driver to know whether or not he/she was in manual gear select or not.
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John, your reply to Go4Mac confused me, where you said “My guess is SFT doesn’t know how to do it…” in reference to gear display, and yet Go4Mac’s post only mentioned GDE, not SFT. How did SFT get in the conversation about gear display?
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Personally I have the SFT stage 2 Engine/Trans tune with EGR delete option & Rally Tune. I started off with just the stage 1 and really liked the performance and eventually went stage 2 and installed the free flow exhaust system. Was crazy the amount of harnesses I had to disconnect when removing the factory exhaust and felt that there was no way that factory exhaust wasn't restricting flow. Main reason I finally went stage 2 besides the performance advantages was I got tired of the instances when I would just be doing a short trip to the store and then all of a sudden I have a regen message and then I'm driving around for 45 minutes to allow the regen to be performed.
I have never had a single issue with SFT so I cant speak on their customer service other than the initial setup which I felt they were quite responsive. I installed the SFT tune (stage 1) back in 2020 around 24K miles and then installed the stage 2 about a year ago around 50k miles. My truck is a 2018 ram 1500 crew cab bighorn currently with 70k miles.
I have never had a single issue with SFT so I cant speak on their customer service other than the initial setup which I felt they were quite responsive. I installed the SFT tune (stage 1) back in 2020 around 24K miles and then installed the stage 2 about a year ago around 50k miles. My truck is a 2018 ram 1500 crew cab bighorn currently with 70k miles.
Good eye and thank you. Glad you caught me.
An old age brain fart. I had just posted about SFT on another forum and must have been on my mind. Sorry about that as GDE certainly knows how to do it. I should delete the post but then your post wouldn't make sense.
Thanks again
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So regarding the question of gear display while D is selected, is it true that SFT can't (or like GDE, won't) do it?
Don't know if SFT has ever been asked to do it.
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I haven't yet installed my SFT Stage 1/2+trans tune, so I will ask them for gear display when I send SFT the downloaded stock files from my 2014 JGC. Stay tuned...
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Thanks for the info, BigHorn. I will be installing my SFT Stage 1/2+trans tune in April and anything I can learn about the care and feeding of SFT tunes is much appreciated.
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@John Jensen - ha, I was confused where sft came from too, lol. All good
@Dennett - that was my experience with GDE, they would not add the gear display to my tune, although I do know they used to as @Bounty Hunter’s post states. Maybe they had a change of heart or maybe the epa compliant tune changed what they can do. However I do remember them saying they would not keep the gear display on because of user’s not knowing when the gear select was on or not. I can look up the email…
@Dennett - that was my experience with GDE, they would not add the gear display to my tune, although I do know they used to as @Bounty Hunter’s post states. Maybe they had a change of heart or maybe the epa compliant tune changed what they can do. However I do remember them saying they would not keep the gear display on because of user’s not knowing when the gear select was on or not. I can look up the email…
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From gde 9/18/21 when I asked about the current gear evic display:
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There is no way to have a permanent gear display show up in the instrument cluster. In the past we've done it via the trans tune (only way), but then you do not know when the manual mode is engaged. Since this can become a safety issue and create confusion we don't offer such a configuration anymore.
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There is no way to have a permanent gear display show up in the instrument cluster. In the past we've done it via the trans tune (only way), but then you do not know when the manual mode is engaged. Since this can become a safety issue and create confusion we don't offer such a configuration anymore.
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I can see why GDE could be concerned about safety if the "automatic shifting" D symbol no longer appears on the dashboard and is replaced by numbers in the same spot they appear for manual shifting. If that was the case, is there any way for the driver to tell the difference between automatic and manual shifting just from the dashboard display? If the D still appears on the dashboard somewhere near the numbers, then I don't see a problem.
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It would just permanently keep the numbers for the gears turned on above the “D” for the gear it is in. Evidently people can’t figure out when the gear select is on or not without the numbers turning off when you are no longer in the manual gear select mode. 🤷🏻♂️🙄
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What year truck?
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I was able activate gear indicator on a '17, haven't tried a '16.
I don't get the safety issue, but whatever. GDE are the pros.
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