Anyone like the dial shifter?

[jsus]

No one likes it... Not older people and not younger people.

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[Mcuz]

i would like to ask all, does anyone like the diel shift. i personally do not like it. so I am on a mission to see if there is a way to put a hand held shift like an f150. does anyone agree. thank you

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i would like to ask all, does anyone like the diel shift. i personally do not like it. so I am on a mission to see if there is a way to put a hand held shift like an f150. does anyone agree. thank you

I Did not think I would like it, but once i got comfortable with it, I love it.

 

[Bob The Builder]

Maybe after I get the truck I will discover I hate it, but right now I have to say I think it is kind of cool looking. I will follow up in a year.

 

[TimmH]

Should just go back to the old days.

 

[Chris_G]

Should just go back to the old days.

Reminds me of AMC Rambler.

 

[Bj517]

No one likes it... Not older people and not younger people. I did an auto survey about 5 or 6 years ago and the subject was the gear selector. I got in about 5 different cars from different makers and different styles of gear selectors and I scored all the weird ones like rotory knobs the lowest and the standard gear shifter in the console the highest. After doing the survey, I asked the guy running it if the older people liked the standard shifters and the younger people liked the rotary knobs, etc. I expected him to say yes, but he said pretty much everyone liked the standard gear shifter and practically no one liked any of the "unconventional" shifters. I guess all that matters is the Auto makers like unconventional shifters!

I bet if all the survey takers got to live with the various shifter designs for a couple weeks, the results would be very different. The dial shifter was weird at first, but once you get used to it (only takes a week or so), it's actually quite nice. I definitely prefer it to a standard shifter now.

 

[Altivo]

Should just go back to the old days.

Rambler and Buick had those. Gosh, more than 50 years ago, I think it was. No Park? I seem to remember that Buick had Park, but it was my grandfather's car and I didn't have a license yet.

 

[Whatcolortochoose]

I like how out of the way it is. I do wish there was a way to beable to manually select gears on the ecoboost. The truck is pretty responsive but if I am getting ready to pass someone on a 2-lane road I'd like to premptively downshift before I start accelerating. Or be able to chose a specific gear on steep inclines. admittentaly I have yet to take the truck in the mountains and havent heard any complaints.

 

[Dawgonit]

I think the lever on the side is park. My 65 plymouth valiant had push button with a lever on the side for park.

 

[tsled]

I do NOT like the dial shifter at all, you have to look at it because you can spin the dial there are no end stops. Don't like it.

 

[redskins5]

I have one of the dial shifters in my 2020 ford explorer and don't have any issue with it other than my 2021 Ford f-150 is in the column and I often forget what's what when going to the explorer and will try to shift it at the column.

 

[Jah.]

It's ok . just have to get use to it . old dogs can learn new tricks .

 

[Hoagus]

Rambler and Buick had those. Gosh, more than 50 years ago, I think it was. No Park? I seem to remember that Buick had Park, but it was my grandfather's car and I didn't have a license yet.

Valiant had it, too. My sister had one and it blew my mind (still blown!)

 

[Forester]

I don’t understand the problem with the shifter. It is not like the shifter moves linkage any more. I drive dump trucks and fire trucks and there is just a button to push to put them in drive.

 

[rlhdweman]

I like how out of the way it is. I do wish there was a way to beable to manually select gears on the ecoboost. The truck is pretty responsive but if I am getting ready to pass someone on a 2-lane road I'd like to premptively downshift before I start accelerating. Or be able to chose a specific gear on steep inclines. admittentaly I have yet to take the truck in the mountains and havent heard any complaints.

Try this, lets say your are going 50 & going to pass, push the L in the center of the dial, it will shift to the lowest gear allowed for the speed you are at, just remember to push the L again after you pass or you will be stuck in a lower gear with the engine revving very high.

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