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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Squatch on 28 February 2008, 16:08:09

Title: good for the car?
Post by: Squatch on 28 February 2008, 16:08:09

Firstly, thank you for the very warm welcome to the site! Anyway, down to business. Moving away with a cold engine the auto box holds on to first for far too long in my opinion. According to the book this is to heat up the cats more quickly but at what cost to the engine? (Especially in winter minus temps!) It goes against everything I know (not much admittedly!) I stop this by selecting ice mode - forcing the thing to change up. Was the engine designed to take this pre-programmed abuse?

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: Mike Collins on 28 February 2008, 16:29:16

The later cars, my 2.6 for example, don't seem to hold low gear for as long.

Would a gearbox firmware update help?

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: PaulW on 28 February 2008, 16:31:00

I updated the firmware on mine to 9, and it still holds 1st till around 4500rpm at half throttle when accelerating.

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: eliterob on 28 February 2008, 16:34:49

good question mine does this also??
 :-/

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: PaulW on 28 February 2008, 16:36:39

think its normal, something to do with warming up the fluids in the autobox and getting things circulating

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: Dazzler on 28 February 2008, 18:07:31

i used to pull away as normal and then select snow mode so that it changed into third :-/

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 28 February 2008, 18:34:27

I find sitting in the car for 10-20 seconds when you have started the engine stops it :y

Title: Re: good for the car?
Post by: TheBoy on 28 February 2008, 19:10:04

should change around 3k when very cold, depending on weight of shoe.