donscomp
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This may be old news but I happen to go to Monacos site and take a look at the addendums. I have followed post about the ole Economy mode switch. Monacos addenDUM states that this feture is not enabled in the 2006 diplomat. Or the Cayman and Knight for that fact.
Have you any idea why they would do this? Havnt called yet. But man. Once on the road I press it. And here the thing does NOTHING?
This is the link to the pdf that they have posted for you 06 Dip. owners.
Just thought that kinda weird and screwed up.
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That certainly explains why nothing happens when I press that button! I wonder why they did that? Please post when you hear more.
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donscomp
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I donno man. Monaco and I are in a tiff so they probley wont answer my questions. LOL
But it sems pretty stupid to me.
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wolfe10
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MODE is programmed into the Allison ECU. Check with an Allison dealer about programming economy mode as primary or secondary mode.
Do not know if additional work would be required with a non-Allison shift pad-- no experience with them.
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donscomp wrote: Monacos addenDUM staes that this feture is not enabled in the 2006 diplomat. Or the Cayman and Knight for that fact.
Have you any idea why they would do this?
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Don Don
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It does do something. It changes your shift pattern on hills. It will not pull down to the next lowest gear except in extreme conditions which means you go up the hills a little slower and the trans does not shift down turning the engine at higher RPMs. It will result in better mileage.
What did you think it was going to do, some super speed gear or something? It does work!
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That would be hard to believe. The cost of that key stroke when programming the ECU would be noise level. And each ECM HAS to be programmed with such things as max engine RPM, etc.
wallynm wrote:$$$$$
donscomp wrote: Monacos addenDUM staes that this feture is not enabled in the 2006 diplomat. Or the Cayman and Knight for that fact.
Have you any idea why they would do this?
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Deen
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Don Don wrote:It does do something. It changes your shift pattern on hills. It will not pull down to the next lowest gear except in extreme conditions which means you go up the hills a little slower and the trans does not shift down turning the engine at higher RPMs. It will result in better mileage.
What did you think it was going to do, some super speed gear or something? It does work! If you follow the link in the OP's original post it says that the "economy mode" is NOT activated for the Diplomat so I would tend to believe that it is, in fact NOT activated.
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It works on our 06 Knight - UPShifts at 2000 RPM instead of 2200 and delays uphill downshift til you slow ~10MPH
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donscomp
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Deen wrote:Don Don wrote:It does do something. It changes your shift pattern on hills. It will not pull down to the next lowest gear except in extreme conditions which means you go up the hills a little slower and the trans does not shift down turning the engine at higher RPMs. It will result in better mileage.
What did you think it was going to do, some super speed gear or something? It does work! If you follow the link in the OP's original post it says that the "economy mode" is NOT activated for the Diplomat so I would tend to believe that it is, in fact NOT activated.
Thanks Deen,
I see Don Don has an 05 Knight. As we did also and I could tell it worked in it. I would not have said it was NOT ativated if Monaco didnt SAY it.
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