7 gears question.

time lord

I borrowed a Honda Jazz automatic. I had driven it before and this time I was doing a lot of open road driving. I engaged the 7 gears with a button on steering wheel. All good, dash then shows you what gear your in and you can use the paddles for gear selection if you wish.

The question is when left in just normal "d" position the rev counter gave one reading and when the 7 gears were engaged the revs went up and stayed up all the time the car was maintaining the same speed.

I would of assumed the higher gears would of brought the revs down?

krissovo

Did you not think to change "up" the gear? Once out of "D" you were in control;)

HappyHouseWife

Maybe I'm wrong but does a Jazz have a CVT gearbox so doesn't really have gears at all? It just has 6 artificial shift points programmed in to make it feel like it has gears when you're shifting with the buttons but when in "D" it behaves like a normal CVT (ie: constant revs while speed climbs).

All of the above could be complete horsesh1t too!;)

time lord

krissovo wrote: »

Did you not think to change "up" the gear? Once out of "D" you were in control;)

no need.
At speed it will be on dash that you are in 7th gear when you press said button.

time lord

HappyHouseWife wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong but does a Jazz have a CVT gearbox so doesn't really have gears at all? It just has 6 artificial shift points programmed in to make it feel like it has gears when you're shifting with the buttons but when in "D" it behaves like a normal CVT (ie: constant revs while speed climbs).

All of the above could be complete horsesh1t too!;)

Im lost now:eek: So for best m.p.g. it sounds like don't press the 7 speed button as normal "D" gives same speed with lower revs.

Daved_XB

time lord wrote: »

Im lost now:eek: So for best m.p.g. it sounds like don't press the 7 speed button as normal "D" gives same speed with lower revs.

That's what I would expect to see... selecting D gives you normal driving whilst selecting to do the gears yourself would enable some sort of sport mode normally raising the revs at which the car will no allow you to hold gears in, increasing the throttle response etc giving you a sportier feel but lower MPG

kerten

HappyHouseWife wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong but does a Jazz have a CVT gearbox so doesn't really have gears at all? It just has 6 artificial shift points programmed in to make it feel like it has gears when you're shifting with the buttons but when in "D" it behaves like a normal CVT (ie: constant revs while speed climbs).

All of the above could be complete horsesh1t too!;)

That's 100% correct. And it is possible you may cruise at lower rpm at steady speed in D than manually selected last gear. That was the case for my Primera CVT. It may change from box to box of course.

I never needed to use manual shifting in CVT box except situations I need to accelerate fast like overtaking, etc. You can avoid lag of shifting(which may be up to couple of seconds when you floor pedal) in D mode by manually shifting gear and increasing rpm.

time lord

Daved_XB wrote: »

That's what I would expect to see... selecting D gives you normal driving whilst selecting to do the gears yourself would enable some sort of sport mode normally raising the revs at which the car will no allow you to hold gears in, increasing the throttle response etc giving you a sportier feel but lower MPG

jazz will drive in d as normal or with 7 pressed will still drive in d with dash numbers running up to 7.. Paddles need not be used in 7 mode unless you engage them.

So I take it drive in normal d for m.p.g. and press 7 to accelerate to high heaven and stay there?