Am I suspose to drive with the Overdrive on or off, because when I press it and it comes on the dashboard I drive faster, but I don't seem like it when its not on the dashboard but it still is fast..... So is it on or off, if anybody have pictures please help me.

 

When in traffic and going under 40, turn it off. From the myths, everyone says that it helps save your tranny from gear-hunting

Otherwise Keep it on, saves your *** gas, and if you need power, just press the gas, the tranny is capable of shifting when it needs to

 

All the OD should do is lock out 4th gear.. I really cant tell if there is a diffrence in shift pts, etc when its off. Im convienced its all in our heads

 

i agree with white gold. i cant tell difference in shift pts. all i know is that sometimes i turn it off while driving around town to eliminate "gear hunting" which is annoying as He ll

 

okay, thanks more people can reply i just wanna learn, first car

 

Auto trans. sucks wish i had manual keep O/D on it'll save you gas a litlle if you like agressive driving turn it off

 

Here's a classic OVERDRIVE thread... .. BTW, http://www.forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=463067

 

OD is great for fast driving, but i agree the gear hunting is annoying...

 

why is this so hard to understand...?
basically the only real purpose of turning OD off is for like going up hillsm or pulling a heavy load...like some said, to prevent gear hunting. Just leave OD on... if you leave it off all the time your gas mileage will go down. and if you need it to downshift just step on the gas pedal! damn newbs...

 

Nobody asked you to keep all supid u dumb *** if u could'nt answer nice, don't come in here..

 

Don't sweat it. Everybody in here is a smartazz.

 

I keep OD off when Im in town under 45 or so. It's actually been getting me better gas mileage. I keep it off in town and back on on the highway. It doesnt make you drive faster tho.

 

nice thread.

How does that help? if youre going 40mph or under it doesnt go into 4th gear anyway. OD on or off under 40mph does nothing.

 

I can get my automatic to go into 4th gear with torque converter locked at 35 MPH ... it will ... and it is god aweful annoying. Thank god my 5Spd 98 is waiting at home for me.

 

my 2 cents: around town i always have OD locked out. It does save the tranny b/c when it slips in & out of 4th gear, it creates friction and heat which lowers the life of the tranny. This esp. bad when a tranny is under-designed and lacks proper lubrication (e.g. Dodge Dakota Auto's/Acura TL). Also i drove a 99 GXE auto and my 95 SE is way more positive in shifts and way more responsive. :attention

 

Has anyone had the button stop functioning? I have a 98 with 150,000 miles on it and the other day the button stopped working. It won't disengage the OD anymore... Anyone have any ideas on a fix?? Maybe the switch?

 

i have this same problem right now but too lazy to fix it and plus i never drive my car without OD.

there's a thread in the stickes that tells you how to fix this problem.. don't really feel like searching it for you though but maybe someone can give you a link. it's some loose wiring in your shifter or something... easy fix and a common problem in lot of the cars.

being on the topic... you should just drive with your OD on your normal daily driving and just forget about it. unless you don't already know, when the OD light is on your dash is lit up, it means it's off.

 

The situation is much worse with low blinker fluid.

 

Although not as bad as a broken flux capacitor...






FWIW I turn O/D of when I'm driving in town at 40 and under.

 

Very true, watch that!

 

reminds me of the year I almost failed safety cause no washer fluid.

 

Go to the forum NmexMAX mentioned when I orginially asked the question ::