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You just need to do a KAM reset. This can be done by disconnecting the positive and the negative on the battery and touching them together or if you have a tuner it's just the press of a button.
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You just need to do a KAM reset. This can be done by disconnecting the positive and the negative on the battery and touching them together or if you have a tuner it's just the press of a button.
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Olytlr -> just givin' you crap. My neenerwebs is all F'd up today too, had to vent on somebody
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I just bought the truck about 3 weeks ago with 171k of someone else's miles on it. So I thought it would be nice to reset the memory. As far as the diagnostic software what do you guys have good luck with or like using forscan ids ect.
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"Automatic Transmission Adaptive Learning This feature is designed to increase durability and provide consistent shift feel over the life of the vehicle. A new vehicle or transmission may have firm shifts, soft shifts or both. This operation is considered normal and will not affect function or durability of the transmission. Over time, the adaptive learning process will fully update transmission operation. Additionally, whenever the battery is disconnected or a new battery installed, the strategy must be relearned."
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Sorry I didn't use the proper nomenclature. Adaptive Learning. I call Helicopters airplanes to.
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Maybe no memory, however it does adapt to the driver over time. From the manual:
"Automatic Transmission Adaptive Learning This feature is designed to increase durability and provide consistent shift feel over the life of the vehicle. A new vehicle or transmission may have firm shifts, soft shifts or both. This operation is considered normal and will not affect function or durability of the transmission. Over time, the adaptive learning process will fully update transmission operation. Additionally, whenever the battery is disconnected or a new battery installed, the strategy must be relearned."
"Automatic Transmission Adaptive Learning This feature is designed to increase durability and provide consistent shift feel over the life of the vehicle. A new vehicle or transmission may have firm shifts, soft shifts or both. This operation is considered normal and will not affect function or durability of the transmission. Over time, the adaptive learning process will fully update transmission operation. Additionally, whenever the battery is disconnected or a new battery installed, the strategy must be relearned."
The purpose of the adaptive software is to maintain the ideal slip time during a shift over the life of the transmission. A nominal setting is programmed into the software. Some transmissions will have ideal slip times with that value, some will have long slip times, and some will have short slip times. The adaptive software changes the pressure commanded for the shift so that every shift has the ideal slip time.
And yes, there is memory to store these values. There isn't a need to clear it, the software is always measuring the shifts and making changes where it's needed. Different drivers do not upset it, nor does the software need to learn or unlearn different drivers. It just learns slip times.
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The software does NOT adapt to the driver. It doesn't say that it adapts to the driver in the wording you quoted. Take it from someone that programmed that software, it adapts to the individual transmission. It also adapts over the life of the transmission to account for wear.
The purpose of the adaptive software is to maintain the ideal slip time during a shift over the life of the transmission. A nominal setting is programmed into the software. Some transmissions will have ideal slip times with that value, some will have long slip times, and some will have short slip times. The adaptive software changes the pressure commanded for the shift so that every shift has the ideal slip time.
And yes, there is memory to store these values. There isn't a need to clear it, the software is always measuring the shifts and making changes where it's needed. Different drivers do not upset it, nor does the software need to learn or unlearn different drivers. It just learns slip times.
The purpose of the adaptive software is to maintain the ideal slip time during a shift over the life of the transmission. A nominal setting is programmed into the software. Some transmissions will have ideal slip times with that value, some will have long slip times, and some will have short slip times. The adaptive software changes the pressure commanded for the shift so that every shift has the ideal slip time.
And yes, there is memory to store these values. There isn't a need to clear it, the software is always measuring the shifts and making changes where it's needed. Different drivers do not upset it, nor does the software need to learn or unlearn different drivers. It just learns slip times.
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Thanks for clearing that up Mark
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To address your other question, Forscan is the way to go. Get yourself a Bluetooth OBD adapter like this one and you're all set. That's the one I use.
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I'm buying a lot of Toughbooks from my work here in the next month or so. I'm thinking I'll keep one under my seat for truck stuff.
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