tonyh wrote:I have a retest coming up for rospa and will be using an automatic. The vehicle is an old saab 900 with a 4 speed auto.
I'm playing with it and am using the box in the same way I would use a manual.
hir wrote:If the auto box is one of the really old mechanical boxes with no electronic manual/sequential mode incorporated within, I would not attempt to use it as a manual box. These auto boxes were never designed, nor intended, to be used as manual boxes. The only time you should be using a lower gear in "lock-down" mode is when (say) descending a steep incline. The old mechanical boxes were usually quite sensitive to accelerator pedal pressure with change down (not kick down) being effected with moderate accelerator pressure. This is the best way to effect change-down with these old style mechanical boxes.
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