The first 200 miles of driving my new truck the power train was the most awesom I have ever seen. Now it seems like the truck wants to upshift to a higher gear than I prefer. Why doesn't ford just have the trucks drive the same and let us adapt to them instead of the other way around.

 

why not I would much rather the truck learn my habits than me have to adjust to it.
Try sport mode you wont be dissapointed.

 

If you have disconnected your battery lately, you can clear the memory and do a re-learn procedure. Check the attached.

 

i agree with the op. my day to day driving changes so many times on my commute. same roads same times 20 mile round trip every day 9 traffic lights each way . i have had the really slow drivers , road work, things blocking lanes, or a wide open ride all the way home/work. so how does the adaptive learning really work? day to day? i have noticed weeks where my truck runs really strong (les traffic) but when school time comes around i feel like my trans gets real lazy like the truck is loosing power because stop and go traffic. and when there is more traffic it starts kicking to a lower gear faster.

 

Sport mode, the magic cure.

 

Sport mode really is amazing! The shifting is predictable, and I love the way it downshifts on declines and braking. I keep it enabled 100% of the time on surface streets and really only disable it once cruising on the interstate. Although, I doubt I even need to do that since it'll still hit the tenth gear with Sport mode enabled.

 

Sport mode is fun, but if I use it on my particular truck the MPGs drop like a rock. I'll use it when I'm trying to navigate through traffic and need to be able to get moving quickly. But if i left it engaged all the time i'd probably average 9mpg. lol

 

I don't notice much of a MPG drop but that may be due to the 10 speed transmission.

 

I agree with the OP. I wish there was a way to shut the adaptive learning off once you have the truck running the way you like it.

The shift points arent as big a concern to me as the throttle response is. Over time it just seems to fall right off. I have diacovered this trick to bring it back, and it absolutely works, for me anyway:

https://www.f150online.com/forums/v8...ine-works.html

 

I looked at your link...... from 2010. I chuckled at this:

F150forum.com gets made fun of on here, but in all honesty there are far less egotistic self righteous ****** over there. I enjoy the info here, but rarely post due to that one reason.