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> From: Bruce Aaron Hefner <gt9742a@prism.gatech.edu>
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: Re: dakota 5 speed vs. auto
> Date: Wednesday, May 28, 1997 08:43 AM
>
> >
> > At 07:43 AM 5/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
> > >At 09:34 PM 5/27/97 -0800, Frank Ball wrote:
> > >>} From: keith.wanderi@fsg.deluxe.com (Keith R Wanderi)
> >
> > <snip>
> > >>I thought about and automatic, but around here there are lots of
steep
> > >>10-15% grades that go for miles with tight switchback turns. The
> > >>automatics offered had no way to select 2nd gear, only low or a
overdrive
> > >>lockout. 2nd is what you need for going up or down these hills with
a
> > >>load or a trailer.
> > >[...]
> >
> > I don't understand what you're getting at here. Dodge automatics allow
you
> > to select second gear to slow yourself going downhill.
> >
> >
> > Rob Agnew
> > ragnew@islandnet.com
> >
> > Victoria, B.C.
> > Canada
> >
> I have to agree with you there Rob, every Dodge auto I've seen allowed
> you to put it into 2nd or 1st if you needed to for mountains etc., I
don't
> know whose autos he's talking about.
> Bruce
>
Sounds like my mother in law's F150 Ford... it has a OD, D, and 2...
that's it.. 1st gear is only selectable by the transmission itself..No
lever... My
mom's Oldsmobile is the same way (OD-D-L (no 2nd gear!)
Sam '95 SLT
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