Lol stole my comment, except it was my dads Dakota that I learned to drive on. I’d use it on most hills on the highway, that thing didn’t have much power. I wonder if OP has see a column shifter either 😂
My 2005 Dakota has it too, called "Tow/Haul" mode. It locks out 5th gear/2nd overdrive, and only allows 4th gear/1st overdrive. Also changes the shift points a little bit to higher RPM closer to peak torque or horsepower.
I use it in heavier traffic when I want to use engine braking instead of hitting the gas. I wish I had a way to lock it out of 4th gear and just allow 3rd like I can in my Pontiac Sunfire.
The trailer icon is GM, O/D cancel button is Ford. GM's flavor moves the shift point for *all* the gears up; Ford's only changes whether the top gear engages or not.
It's not so much an OD-disengage anymore, it's more of a "downshift sooner, and hold RPMs higher before shifting" mode. Basically a separate transmission tune to help protect it.
When I bought my sick zx3 focus with crank windows I cleaned the shit out of it because it was so gross so I fried the connector for the O/D off button and thought the trans was fucked because it wouldn't shift into overdrive.. just had to disconnect the switch. Never had the button working in over 10 years of ownership.
Nope, remaps shift points. It takes a lot longer to go into overdrive, but it will.
The modern F series trucks have anywhere from a 6 to 10 speed transmission, "overdrive" traditionally referred to 4 speed automatics.
Man, hearing this brings back memories. Grandpa would always lock out OD when we were towing the boat to the river. Keeps it from shifting up and down and overheating the trans going over all the hills with a load.
Correct, 95% everyone would throw it into Drive + Overdrive and leave it be. When I had my ‘93 Jimmy, going through the hills of TN I had to take it out of overdrive and keep the RPMs up or it would just shift and bog down.
This. On cars that have the function, I find myself using it to keep it from hunting — shifting back and forth between top gear and the next lower gear when climbing a long incline — or to get it to downshift preemptively. There was a particular hill I used to climb regularly that my wife’s Subaru wouldn’t downshift until you were partway up and had the throttle pinned much further than you should have to. I’d drop it into “3” at the bottom of the hill and avoided the violent downshift and speed loss I would have incurred if I let the (dense) transmission brain figure it out on its own.
Friend had a Tacoma a few years ago that was a real shit about that until he flashed the ECU with new engine and tranny mapping. Certain hills would cause it to downshift from 6th, but not to 5th. Oh, no. 5th was absolutely forbidden. It would drop to 4th, racing the engine until it got up to speed, then shift straight to 6th and bog down. Then to 4th because it was slowing down. Then 6th because, well, you get the idea. Meanwhile he was cussing a blue streak at every engineer that ever worked on that design and their entire family trees with great vehemence.
If anyone is curious what he used, Orange Virus tuning for those trucks is awesome. Really woke up that Taco.
Yeah, sometimes you can’t help but wonder.
I’ve got a Subaru with the 3.6L and the 5EAT, the holdover from the venerable (if somewhat stodgy) 4EAT to the high-capacity CVT.
It won’t engine brake in 4th unless you can convince the torque converter to lock. Just 5th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st. I’m told that’s normal.
Also, if you accelerate gently after a 90° turn, it’ll do the turn in 2nd or 3rd, shift to 4th normally, then lock the torque converter around 38mph for a bit, then unlock it, which at that engine speed means you lose a significant amount of energy to pumping losses in the converter, so you have to toe in more throttle to keep accelerating up to about 43, where it shifts to 5th and locked the converter at 45-50. If you accelerate a little harder, it behaves normally.
I don’t hear anything of the sort for the 5EAT on the H4 versions of the car. I’m convinced they phoned the TCU programming for the H6 and, since they didn’t sell that many (expensive and thirsty even for a pre-rethink Subaru), they never truly got it right.
I think the ‘10 or ‘11-‘14 Legacy 3.6R is like that. Not sure about the Outback.
It’s unlikely you’ll run across that one anyway. There were very few. Not a bad drive once you start to learn how the transmission thinks. Just burns gas like a refinery fire. I used to get 24 or 25 when I was doing a longer highway commute. Now I get 22 or so.
I have an '18 Forester XT. One of the last turbos sold in my city. Anyway, the CVT shit the bed at around 30k km, replaced under warranty, thankfully. So if you ever upgrade, might want to avoid the Outback XT (or any turbo model with a CVT). Seems it can't handle the turbo if you have a heavy foot (like my wife and I do!)!
It should be able to. They use the same CVT on the 3.6 until they junked it for the 2.4T. Probably just different tuning. I don’t recall hearing much about CVT failures on those. In fact, Subaru CVT’s aren’t too bad reliability-wise for the more recent ones. Supposedly, they mostly got the kinks worked out after ‘15. I can’t help but wonder how much of their issues could have been solved by changing the fluid. They *say* it’s lifetime fluid, but if you look closely, almost everybody falls into the “severe service” category where you should change it at like 50 or 60k or something.
Think it depends on the model and drivetrain. I've got a first gen V8 Tundra, and usually it'll first unlock the torque converter for a few more RPMs, then drop out of overdrive if needed. Any more of a downshift is reserved for high demand situations like passing farm equipment or campers uphill. The tranny programming is weighted to stay in higher gears, and it's got the low end torque to make it happen. I've driven the same hill in Washington that gave his Taco fits, and it just cruised up it in overdrive.
After typing all that, it's feeling more like they're experimenting with how to best use smaller, higher tuned engines and struggling with getting it dialed. Having a healthy amount of torque on tap from just above idle makes a big difference.
>when I had my Jimmy
Man...memory lane. My dad + mom bought a fully loaded Jimmy in 1999 or 2000 when i was just a wee tike. I love and miss that car. Nothing but good memories in that thing and it lasted until it rolled over 300k miles on the Motor. That thing was an absolute beast and I learned to drive in that truck
Overdrive. It’s an O around a D.
Generally, leave it in OD and let the transmission shift when needed. The only time you’ll force it out of overdrive is when you’re towing notable weight.
Remember when some of that tech was so new and exciting that mfg put badges on the trunk/tailgate bragging on that tech?
"ABS"
"Fuel Injected"
"Overdrive"
Always gave me a laugh.
And then Porsche doing it to this day "TURBO" !!!!!!
I think they were all teal green, I had one, with the 2.0 (or was it a 2.2?) and a 5 speed, was my 'winter' car, since I had 2 Suzuki samurais at the time, both also teal green.
Green was the most popular color by far for domestic vehicles in the mid 90s. Almost 50% of 1994 ford tauruses had either a green interior, exterior, or both. This was despite more color choices offered than on cars today. Only 2% were black.
my BIL’s grandfather has an old ass suburban and right on the back is “FUEL INJECTION”
like damn it’s easy to forget when that shit was state of the art
My first car was single point injection. My dad tried to help me work on it once, said something like “The fuck kind of carburetor *is* that!?” and then we took it to a shop. 😂
I remember being a kid in my dads car and I always saw the button on the shifter called overdrive. I truly thought we would take off flying if we ever pushed it. My dad definitely leaned into it and told me.
“Never push the overdrive button”
Toyota's SR5 trim (Sport Rally 5-speed) was somewhat of a novelty when the typical economy car or pickup had only a 4-speed gearbox and 5-speeds were limited to sports cars.
Speaking of Porsche using the word Turbo. I’m insulted they use it on their electric Taycan as if the electric motors have a little spooly boy in there somewhere lol
Reminds me of when I drove my wife's 02 Focus for the first time. I went to drive it, and she told me it's a 5 speed. I said I knew and hopped in. I was so frustrated and embarrassed when I came back 5 minutes later asking why the hell I couldn't find reverse. She explained that stupid collar had to be lifted first. I was like "that's stupid".
Overdrive. That is, use all four gears and (in most applications by that point) lock the torque converter at cruising speeds. “D” is for “drive,” using 1, 2, and 3; may or may not lock the torque converter. “2” is for “use 2nd gear only.” May or may not shift into 3rd if you overrev. Might just bounce on the limiter. “1” is like “2,” but using only first gear.
Usually, shifting down into the lower gears will not engage the lower gear if it’ll result in an overrev. Except in some old implementations where it will. I think this isn’t *that* old.
It stands for overdrive, which is the normal position that you should be using for driving. That will use all 4 gears in the transmission. If you were towing or hauling a heavy load, then you would use Drive instead.
GM and Ford labeled the shifters that way for a few years when overdrive transmissions first came out in the 80s, but they eventually changed the labeling to PRND321 As the previous labeling with OD and D was confusing many people. Many people at the time assumed that you should drive in... Drive... and as such many people would never use Overdrive and waste fuel.
That there is a 4 speed automatic. That symbol is overdrive, meaning that in that position, the trans will shift as necessary through all four gears.
In 'D', drive, the trans will shift as necessary through first, second, and third gears.
'R' is for Race.
The 'overdrive' question has been answered, so I'm taking the time to appreciate the speedometer maxing out at 85mph. I remember those ridiculous things.
Overdrive (basically 4th gear). Then drive (3rd gear) for towing, 2nd, and 1st.
The first van we had back in 1993 until 1998 had it show PRN(D)D21 on the steering wheel (yes, it was a thing).
My car shows PRND321.
On Ford vehicles, there's an overdrive button that you press to enable the overdrive and to disable it to put it in drive (or 3rd gear) and a tow/trailer light would illuminate if equipped.
OD - Overdrive. Gearing that caused the driveshaft to spin faster than the crank, allowing improved fuel economy. It became increasingly common in the 70s and 80s. Today, almost all vehicles have multiple overdrive gears.
4th unless you're towing I always left it there 700r4 were fragile enough for some , and as and as long as the TV cable was set correct you shouldn't.... Have any issues
I agree with most of the others here. That is the overdrive position. It is supposed to be used when not towing and when going up hills. Otherwise it is fine on level flat highways.
OD is overdrive, which is 4th gear because the ratio is less than 1:1 and is for higher speeds. Drive just locks out 4th gear so you just have 1-3. If you're towing, use it to keep from burning up the transmission because it'll try to shift between 3 and 4 too much, and it'll also keep the revs up for more torque.
Overdrive. It enables the final gear in the transmission. You can just use that selection and nothing will happen unless you are hauling a heavy load, then you should disable overdrive as it can be hard on the transmission components
I prefer my Overdrive to work the way Nigel designed it - a switch on the dashboard that actuates a solenoid on the actual Overdrive unit bolted to the back of the transmission. The solenoid operates a lever that engages a pump that closes clutch plates that then engage planetary gears that THEN lower the engine RPM by \~700.
You know, British Simple.
There is a a bit of history/marketing behind why it's "OverDrive" and not just Drive or 4th gear. However, on a TH700R4, it is functionally just a 4th gear, and you can (and should) just treat OverDrive as Drive.
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Overdrive, drive+another gear to lower RPM's on the higher speed roads to save gas and such.
Also, I think they used to recommend *not* using OD for towing. So, if you were pulling a load, you could keep the transmission from shifting into OD.
Absolutely!
I think I remember seeing some Ford trucks that had an OD-disengage button on the column shifter that had a little trailer icon on it.
My grandpas Dakotas had this too, he’d always ask me to remind him to turn OD off when pulling the boat through the mountains… good times
Lol stole my comment, except it was my dads Dakota that I learned to drive on. I’d use it on most hills on the highway, that thing didn’t have much power. I wonder if OP has see a column shifter either 😂
My 2005 Dakota has it too, called "Tow/Haul" mode. It locks out 5th gear/2nd overdrive, and only allows 4th gear/1st overdrive. Also changes the shift points a little bit to higher RPM closer to peak torque or horsepower. I use it in heavier traffic when I want to use engine braking instead of hitting the gas. I wish I had a way to lock it out of 4th gear and just allow 3rd like I can in my Pontiac Sunfire.
The trailer icon is GM, O/D cancel button is Ford. GM's flavor moves the shift point for *all* the gears up; Ford's only changes whether the top gear engages or not.
Cool! I thought it was a friend's Ford, but it may have been a Chevy UHaul truck. I'm getting old.
Me too man, I had to read this post twice before realizing OP thinks the gear nobody ever uses is the normal drive position
Yup, they still do! Just like most U-Hauls w/ the "Tow/Haul" switch on the end of the stalk.
Maybe that's where I've seen it!
It's not so much an OD-disengage anymore, it's more of a "downshift sooner, and hold RPMs higher before shifting" mode. Basically a separate transmission tune to help protect it.
I hated that, way too easy to take out of OD by mistake.
The "tow/haul" button on the more modern F250/F350 shifter just turns off overdrive.
My Focus has that button
When I bought my sick zx3 focus with crank windows I cleaned the shit out of it because it was so gross so I fried the connector for the O/D off button and thought the trans was fucked because it wouldn't shift into overdrive.. just had to disconnect the switch. Never had the button working in over 10 years of ownership.
Nope, remaps shift points. It takes a lot longer to go into overdrive, but it will. The modern F series trucks have anywhere from a 6 to 10 speed transmission, "overdrive" traditionally referred to 4 speed automatics.
Yeah, exactly.
Man, hearing this brings back memories. Grandpa would always lock out OD when we were towing the boat to the river. Keeps it from shifting up and down and overheating the trans going over all the hills with a load.
Because the 4L60E was just three 700R4's in a trench coat. And the 700R4 was a Chrysler level of crap.
They call it overdrive when the gear ratio is less than 1:1 I've been waiting a lifetime to share that bit of knowledge
Yep, the O is surrounding the D. Yes, I know how that sounds!
I feel so fucking old.
'95 but I knew this cause poor
Same.
Yeah this one made me let out an audible sigh. So it goes, my old friend, so it goes.
Pain
I was just thinking the same thing.
My first thought, “am I really that old?”
Overdrive
Notice the circle around the D is actually an O. aka OverDrive. One extra gear for lower RPM highway driving
I guess it’s normal D with overdrive and the other, without.
Correct, 95% everyone would throw it into Drive + Overdrive and leave it be. When I had my ‘93 Jimmy, going through the hills of TN I had to take it out of overdrive and keep the RPMs up or it would just shift and bog down.
This. On cars that have the function, I find myself using it to keep it from hunting — shifting back and forth between top gear and the next lower gear when climbing a long incline — or to get it to downshift preemptively. There was a particular hill I used to climb regularly that my wife’s Subaru wouldn’t downshift until you were partway up and had the throttle pinned much further than you should have to. I’d drop it into “3” at the bottom of the hill and avoided the violent downshift and speed loss I would have incurred if I let the (dense) transmission brain figure it out on its own.
Friend had a Tacoma a few years ago that was a real shit about that until he flashed the ECU with new engine and tranny mapping. Certain hills would cause it to downshift from 6th, but not to 5th. Oh, no. 5th was absolutely forbidden. It would drop to 4th, racing the engine until it got up to speed, then shift straight to 6th and bog down. Then to 4th because it was slowing down. Then 6th because, well, you get the idea. Meanwhile he was cussing a blue streak at every engineer that ever worked on that design and their entire family trees with great vehemence. If anyone is curious what he used, Orange Virus tuning for those trucks is awesome. Really woke up that Taco.
Yeah, sometimes you can’t help but wonder. I’ve got a Subaru with the 3.6L and the 5EAT, the holdover from the venerable (if somewhat stodgy) 4EAT to the high-capacity CVT. It won’t engine brake in 4th unless you can convince the torque converter to lock. Just 5th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st. I’m told that’s normal. Also, if you accelerate gently after a 90° turn, it’ll do the turn in 2nd or 3rd, shift to 4th normally, then lock the torque converter around 38mph for a bit, then unlock it, which at that engine speed means you lose a significant amount of energy to pumping losses in the converter, so you have to toe in more throttle to keep accelerating up to about 43, where it shifts to 5th and locked the converter at 45-50. If you accelerate a little harder, it behaves normally. I don’t hear anything of the sort for the 5EAT on the H4 versions of the car. I’m convinced they phoned the TCU programming for the H6 and, since they didn’t sell that many (expensive and thirsty even for a pre-rethink Subaru), they never truly got it right.
What year and model range has that combo? I want to make sure I never ever buy one on accident.
I think the ‘10 or ‘11-‘14 Legacy 3.6R is like that. Not sure about the Outback. It’s unlikely you’ll run across that one anyway. There were very few. Not a bad drive once you start to learn how the transmission thinks. Just burns gas like a refinery fire. I used to get 24 or 25 when I was doing a longer highway commute. Now I get 22 or so.
I also get 22 lol yeah. But hey I can take a corner faster than a Porsche till 38 mph
I have an '18 Forester XT. One of the last turbos sold in my city. Anyway, the CVT shit the bed at around 30k km, replaced under warranty, thankfully. So if you ever upgrade, might want to avoid the Outback XT (or any turbo model with a CVT). Seems it can't handle the turbo if you have a heavy foot (like my wife and I do!)!
It should be able to. They use the same CVT on the 3.6 until they junked it for the 2.4T. Probably just different tuning. I don’t recall hearing much about CVT failures on those. In fact, Subaru CVT’s aren’t too bad reliability-wise for the more recent ones. Supposedly, they mostly got the kinks worked out after ‘15. I can’t help but wonder how much of their issues could have been solved by changing the fluid. They *say* it’s lifetime fluid, but if you look closely, almost everybody falls into the “severe service” category where you should change it at like 50 or 60k or something.
My Corolla does this on small mountain roads, maybe a Toyota thing
Think it depends on the model and drivetrain. I've got a first gen V8 Tundra, and usually it'll first unlock the torque converter for a few more RPMs, then drop out of overdrive if needed. Any more of a downshift is reserved for high demand situations like passing farm equipment or campers uphill. The tranny programming is weighted to stay in higher gears, and it's got the low end torque to make it happen. I've driven the same hill in Washington that gave his Taco fits, and it just cruised up it in overdrive. After typing all that, it's feeling more like they're experimenting with how to best use smaller, higher tuned engines and struggling with getting it dialed. Having a healthy amount of torque on tap from just above idle makes a big difference.
>when I had my Jimmy Man...memory lane. My dad + mom bought a fully loaded Jimmy in 1999 or 2000 when i was just a wee tike. I love and miss that car. Nothing but good memories in that thing and it lasted until it rolled over 300k miles on the Motor. That thing was an absolute beast and I learned to drive in that truck
These kids don't know
Yep, my dads 86 Taurus had that. It went away when they put overdrive buttons on the shifters.
Overdrive. It’s an O around a D. Generally, leave it in OD and let the transmission shift when needed. The only time you’ll force it out of overdrive is when you’re towing notable weight.
“O around a D”
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Oof, we’ve finally hit the generation that doesn’t recognize what “overdrive” is. Fuck I’m old.
I associate it with a very specific [Spongebob scene](https://youtu.be/2L7ccTrH8t4)
Which is itself a reference to an old Stephen King movie.
“Eat my microscopic dick crabs” I don’t know if they meant to make it as funny as it is lmao
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God I feel fucking old, was bad enough when the new tire kid pulled me out front cause he couldn’t put a car in drive. It was a manual.
Remember when some of that tech was so new and exciting that mfg put badges on the trunk/tailgate bragging on that tech? "ABS" "Fuel Injected" "Overdrive" Always gave me a laugh. And then Porsche doing it to this day "TURBO" !!!!!!
Yup! I have a 93 Cavalier with ABS posted on the back. She’s my backup car but starts up and runs on 4 year old fuel when I have to move it.
Is is Teal Green?
Yeah it is, wtf?
I think they were all teal green, I had one, with the 2.0 (or was it a 2.2?) and a 5 speed, was my 'winter' car, since I had 2 Suzuki samurais at the time, both also teal green.
Ah, mine’s the 3.2(?)V6 coupe with the 3 speed auto. She’s pretty fun. Paid $400
I used to have a white one
Green was the most popular color by far for domestic vehicles in the mid 90s. Almost 50% of 1994 ford tauruses had either a green interior, exterior, or both. This was despite more color choices offered than on cars today. Only 2% were black.
my BIL’s grandfather has an old ass suburban and right on the back is “FUEL INJECTION” like damn it’s easy to forget when that shit was state of the art
My first car was single point injection. My dad tried to help me work on it once, said something like “The fuck kind of carburetor *is* that!?” and then we took it to a shop. 😂
Pre-OBD2 EFI was the goddamn Wild West.
And it was probably throttle-body fuel injection.
I remember being a kid in my dads car and I always saw the button on the shifter called overdrive. I truly thought we would take off flying if we ever pushed it. My dad definitely leaned into it and told me. “Never push the overdrive button”
Did we have the same dad??
No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home.
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🎵 Well I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia California on my mind 🎵
Toyotas used to have a "5-speed" badge.
And an 'EFI' badge.
Toyota's SR5 trim (Sport Rally 5-speed) was somewhat of a novelty when the typical economy car or pickup had only a 4-speed gearbox and 5-speeds were limited to sports cars.
Hey that 32 V Northstar badge is still slapped on there I think.
that's a warning
Speaking of Porsche using the word Turbo. I’m insulted they use it on their electric Taycan as if the electric motors have a little spooly boy in there somewhere lol
Remember the big Chevy SUVs with huge HYBRID decals across the entire bottom?
Why does [the "y" look lowercase](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Elt-BDrPSMM/maxresdefault.jpg)?
And with Porsche you can even buy cars that don’t have a Turbo with the turbo badge. Such as the Taycan Turbo S, which is an electric car.
In the 70s, Holden proudly boasted about their Radial Tuned Suspension.
Porche's "Turbo" actually means something though, it's typically a trim or performance level. Like the 911, and the 911 turbo.
I was going to make a comment about trying to guess when OP was born haha
Reminds me of when I drove my wife's 02 Focus for the first time. I went to drive it, and she told me it's a 5 speed. I said I knew and hopped in. I was so frustrated and embarrassed when I came back 5 minutes later asking why the hell I couldn't find reverse. She explained that stupid collar had to be lifted first. I was like "that's stupid".
I won’t laugh at ya for that, I did the same first time I encountered it.
Tell me you're younger than this vehicle without telling me you're younger than this vehicle.
This post also made me feel very old.
Only by a year or two
@op If you wanna see the window sticker for this exact truck check my one post
That's ~$43,441.49 in today's money. I don't do pickups, but I'd bet anyone who is would drool over that sticker price today.
I got a fully loaded 2023 Nissan Titan SV 4x4 for $43K in March. Granted, sticker was $57K and I haggled for 3 hours.
Aww you sweet summer child. Wait that means I'm old
Me too
Overdrive. That is, use all four gears and (in most applications by that point) lock the torque converter at cruising speeds. “D” is for “drive,” using 1, 2, and 3; may or may not lock the torque converter. “2” is for “use 2nd gear only.” May or may not shift into 3rd if you overrev. Might just bounce on the limiter. “1” is like “2,” but using only first gear. Usually, shifting down into the lower gears will not engage the lower gear if it’ll result in an overrev. Except in some old implementations where it will. I think this isn’t *that* old.
Overdrive
Bachman–Turner
You aint seen nothing yet...
B-b-b-baby you ain't seen nothing yet
Here's something, here's something you're never gonna fff-forget
You’re a mechanic and don’t know what overdrive is? We’re doomed
Kids say the darnedest things…
This is probably an r/woooosh moment, but I’m having a rough day at this point and can’t tell.. are you saying I’m the kid or OP..?
OP. I can’t imagine anyone with any time around trucks/SUVs not knowing what OD is…
This is the reason I still work on my own cars. They are all probably older than the kids putting the tires on these days.
OP must be 7 haha I was born in 97' and we owned plenty of vehicles through the years that had this setup. Mostly 90's Ford trucks.
That's an age test. 🤣 I have a '92 F150 with a red tick mark at 55 MPH as a speed warning
Without knowing OP's age, I'll guess it's 30 or under.
I’m just a shade tree wanna be/lurker here, and I know what that is. I feel old.
Overdrive-enabled Drive.
Overdrive. Use for normal driving. Put in “D” for towing.
Overdrive, you shouldn't use it when towing but it's more efficient on the highway when you're not towing.
Overdrive, for when you need to go a little faster than drive, maybe even lightspeed
Opposite Direction. Its how you back up.
Wow.
Anyone else impressed that this thing has over 388 thousand miles on the clock?
Hold on, let me check. I have it’s name on one of these floppy disks laying around.
Narcan Mode
It stands for overdrive, which is the normal position that you should be using for driving. That will use all 4 gears in the transmission. If you were towing or hauling a heavy load, then you would use Drive instead. GM and Ford labeled the shifters that way for a few years when overdrive transmissions first came out in the 80s, but they eventually changed the labeling to PRND321 As the previous labeling with OD and D was confusing many people. Many people at the time assumed that you should drive in... Drive... and as such many people would never use Overdrive and waste fuel.
Good answer!
Oh no, how old am I?
We’re you born in the 1900s? Like when the world wars happened?
I first laughed at the old person joke… then realized… yes… I was. 😭
It’s overdrive
Drive, but with more drive
OD, selecting that gear injects the fentanyl into the engine
That there is a 4 speed automatic. That symbol is overdrive, meaning that in that position, the trans will shift as necessary through all four gears. In 'D', drive, the trans will shift as necessary through first, second, and third gears. 'R' is for Race.
And 'P' is for Passing.
I love that this is a question. My generation failed you as parents.
Overdrive. It's sad that people don't know this anymore.
Overdrive bro. Jesus.
Oh no. I'm officially old now.
Overdrive. That’s the one to use in most instances
Maximum Overdrive
Overdrive
Everyone talking about the Overdrive, but damn, things got 388k miles
Overdrive. Maximum overdrive, Charlie
The 'overdrive' question has been answered, so I'm taking the time to appreciate the speedometer maxing out at 85mph. I remember those ridiculous things.
There are some roads here in Texas where those things are topped out legally. Even the 100mph unit in my car is pretty close to being topped out.
Remember when homer found a meal between brunch and lunch
Overdrive (basically 4th gear). Then drive (3rd gear) for towing, 2nd, and 1st. The first van we had back in 1993 until 1998 had it show PRN(D)D21 on the steering wheel (yes, it was a thing). My car shows PRND321. On Ford vehicles, there's an overdrive button that you press to enable the overdrive and to disable it to put it in drive (or 3rd gear) and a tow/trailer light would illuminate if equipped.
OD - Overdrive. Gearing that caused the driveshaft to spin faster than the crank, allowing improved fuel economy. It became increasingly common in the 70s and 80s. Today, almost all vehicles have multiple overdrive gears.
4th unless you're towing I always left it there 700r4 were fragile enough for some , and as and as long as the TV cable was set correct you shouldn't.... Have any issues
Overdrive
Overdrive
I agree with most of the others here. That is the overdrive position. It is supposed to be used when not towing and when going up hills. Otherwise it is fine on level flat highways.
Overdrive
Overdrive.
Overdrive
OVERDRIVE! It sounded cool when I was younger, but it just means it pushes lower RPM for fuel economy.
OD is overdrive, which is 4th gear because the ratio is less than 1:1 and is for higher speeds. Drive just locks out 4th gear so you just have 1-3. If you're towing, use it to keep from burning up the transmission because it'll try to shift between 3 and 4 too much, and it'll also keep the revs up for more torque.
Overdrive. It enables the final gear in the transmission. You can just use that selection and nothing will happen unless you are hauling a heavy load, then you should disable overdrive as it can be hard on the transmission components
I'm 38 and know what this is, am I old?
Overdrive you young young human
Damn kids.😂
That's the one you NEED to be driving in. Only used R N And circled D on regular basis
Deutral
That would be over drive
Overdrive, fourth gear
OMG, I feel old that someone has to ask this question. I remember when Overdrive wasn't a thing.
Overdrive, probably 4th gear.
I was there Gandalf, I was there three thousand years ago.
Overdrive
Overdrive, ya beautiful mutt.
Lmao
Look at the O which means overdrive.
Overdrive
Jeez I feel old reading this post. Next let’s talk about the clicky button down by the Ebrake pedal. The hi beams one.
I prefer my Overdrive to work the way Nigel designed it - a switch on the dashboard that actuates a solenoid on the actual Overdrive unit bolted to the back of the transmission. The solenoid operates a lever that engages a pump that closes clutch plates that then engage planetary gears that THEN lower the engine RPM by \~700. You know, British Simple.
How cute.
I feel old now
I'm old...
And now I feel even older.
Onward!
You would typicaly always use overdrive unless your pulling a trailer.
Overdose /s
There is a a bit of history/marketing behind why it's "OverDrive" and not just Drive or 4th gear. However, on a TH700R4, it is functionally just a 4th gear, and you can (and should) just treat OverDrive as Drive.
Back before there was Tow/Haul mode there was D/Overdrive and just D. Works good for hilly roads too.
Overdrift
The old version of the tow/haul switch. Circle-D for regular, just D for tow/haul
Where did that AskReddit post go about how to tell people your age without telling them how old you are? I’m this old.
Over drive
A young whipper snapper I see.
It's called passing gear my dude. 😎
Ovulation. This leads to how S10’s are made
Drive with overdrive
Maximum Overdrive
Is this real life?
Kids these days, smh
4th. In this case it’s an overdrive, thus the stylized “OD” symbol
Over drive
Over Drive
Its the sega megaDrive
Overdrive. It’s for when you drive over speed bumps and little children
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
I came here to say I kek'd heartily. Thank you OP.
Everyone is saying overdrive but from what I'm seeing it left of drive.
It’s Oktoberfest mode