looked in the owners manual and could not find any info the M on the transmission selector. help i am old, read some where it means manual. also did a search and did not find what i was looking for. i have 2013 Screw 4x4.

 

It's for the Machine guns.

 

You can set it to m and use the toggle switch on the gear selector lever to manually control changes like a standard transmission.

Seems pointless to me though. I just use the toggle occasionally to lock it out of 6th occasionally. Consider it a gimmick.

 

not pointless at all, picture going downhill and being able to lock it in 3rd to stop accelerating and save on braking

 

in D push the plus button will show the gears 1-6 on display. you can see what gear your in....then you can also manually down shift/upshift as well... i've used it with the cruise on as well for hill climbs/descents..

 

But you don't need to put it on m for that. Just click down on the select shift button while I drive. That is just locking out gears. I maintain that manual mode is pointless.

It might be useful for somebody doing a pulling competition too. So there is that.

 

M for "Manual" I assume. I don't have that, but if you do I guess there is a -/+ shifter on the wiper lever someplace.

 

can also use it to stay locked in a gear, when i'm towing my truck prefers 5th, I put it in m and force 6th.

 

When you are at a stop sign move the gearshift lever to the M position. Then when you take off from the intersection you push the + on the rocker switch located on the gearshift lever to proceed through the gears like shifting a manual transmission.

When the lever is in the D position you can use the +/- rocker to 1) turn the numerical gear display on or off and 2) lock out gears from 6 on down. For example, when I tow my travel trailer sometimes I'll push the - on the rocker to only use gears 1 through 5.

 

Excerpted from the 2013 F-150 owner's manual (page 205) .....