Hello my Name is Steve I have a Navara 2018 Techna 2.3 twin Turbo Auto 7 speed gearbox.

[Capco]

I bought the car over a week ago took it out up the motorway for a run and thought I would check out the gear box manual mode once I got up to 70 mph when I moved the stick over to manual mode I noticed it was doing 70mph and was doing it in 5th gear only so my question is why was it not in 7th gear or do I have to do the 6th and 7th gears as overdrive manually ?
Any help on this matter would be great . Nissan Navara 2.3 ltr twin turbo 7 speed auto 2018.

 

[Phunk]

in the 'sports / manual' mode you'll more than likely have to push it a few more mph to be able to select 6 and 7.

I've had a few cars like this where the manual mode is more of a sports mode and is speed controlled to when you get the next gears available.

Even in my D40, I could be in 4th when in Auto, but if I slide it over to the manual mode it won't let me bump up a gear until I get some speed, whereas in normal driving it will change to higher gears quickly to the point of it annoying me.

I can't 100% say this is what Nissan has done, but from my multiple cars with similar boxes, they all tend to behave like this.

 

[Capco]

thank you for your reply

 

[jwraison]

Mine is the same ,according to the head mechanic at the dealer this is what they are supposed to do,don,t know why thats just the way it is.