2007-09-22 14:44:49 · 7 answers · asked by barberic 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Ford
on at all times unless your towing and even if your towing if your at steady speeds on flat highway you can turn it back on
2007-09-22 14:53:17 · answer #1 · answered by unaturalyaspirated 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In most cases, on any vehicle that has overdrive, you can leave it activated most of the time. The times when you want to disengage it is under circumstances when you're doing a lot of driving that involves the vehicle shifting into overdrive and then shifting out of it, over and over, as you drive along. This happens mostly in stop and go traffic in city roads. On the highway, or when you can maintain a steady speed over 40 or 50 mph, then just leave the transmission in overdrive. Hope this helps.
2007-09-22 21:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Jolly 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should be on, unless you are towing, driving in hilly terrain, or anytime you have the 4WD engaged (if your vehicle is equipped). Overdrive allows the engine to operate at a lower RPM such as when cruising on the freeway, which allows the vehicle to acheive maximum fuel economy.
2007-09-22 22:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bill S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
only turn it off when towing but it sorta tricky because when its OFF the lights on when its on the lights off at least on my 2002. on mine its activated by a little button on the end of the lever that changes engine statis (drive reverse park ect....) when you are towing push it and the yellow light comes on that on mine say od on/off that means it OFF which means it wont try to kick into overdrive when your towing (that is baaad for the transmission and when your towing it tricks the transmission into thinking your trying to accelerate to pass and it kicks in the OD) it is bad to have it off when your not towing bad to have OD on when your towing.
2007-09-22 23:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by None 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have over drive on my car and it was off and i did not know it. I was having trouble with my tyranny not shifting right and bogging down a little bit. Took it to a tyranny repair shop and he notice i had over drive and it was off. He said it needs to be on and when it was back on my tyranny ran like it was suppose to. He could have ripe me off but he did not.
2007-09-22 21:57:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is bascially another gear ratio, and one that will allow greater gas mileage, so use it whenever you can. If you can't get up a hill in that gear, turn it off and the tranny will downshift.
2007-09-22 21:55:37 · answer #6 · answered by lorenzo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On except towing.
2007-09-23 13:50:39 · answer #7 · answered by eaglefox200 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋