Continuous Gear Display on Non-paddle shift Ecoboost

[2024_Night_Mare]

Hello all! New 2024 Ecoboost Premium owner here.

I've done some mods with Forscan and they have all went well. But I tried doing the continuous gear display mod and in order to get it to work you have to make the change to have the shifter position "L" change to "M". (I tried to just enable CGD but I had to do the additional mod to make it work.) It worked perfectly on my car, but when I shift to "L" (now "M") it acts like it's in neutral. It drops out of gear and the gear displayed starts to flash. My guess is the car is looking for the paddle shifters and it doesn't see them so it defaults to the safest thing which is neutral. Does anybody know how to get CGD to work and not sacrifice the "L" position on the shifter on a non-paddle shift car?

I may just have to do the paddle shift mod anyway, because it's cool. But I really want to see what gear it's in like on my 2019 F150.

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[Will2]

Just did this today to a 2025 Ecoboost base, stock steering wheel no paddles.

The only address I changed was 720-02-01 (720-12-01 already had the correct value "E" in the appropriate position).

I tried shifting into L and it seemed to drop to the lowest possible gear, not Neutral. I think dropping to the lowest possible gear is the normal behavior of L, it just does not display it (since there is M in place of L on the gauge cluster now).

I might have to test some more.

 

[2024_Night_Mare]

Just did this today to a 2025 Ecoboost base, stock steering wheel no paddles.

The only address I changed was 720-02-01 (720-12-01 already had the correct value "E" in the appropriate position).

I tried shifting into L and it seemed to drop to the lowest possible gear, not Neutral. I think dropping to the lowest possible gear is the normal behavior of L, it just does not display it (since there is M in place of L on the gauge cluster now).

I might have to test some more.

Cool. Let me know how your testing goes. That's how L works on my car and I don't want to lose that functionality because it could be used to engine brake the car in an emergency. I tried L and my car would slowly downshift gear by gear if I just let it continue coasting with no throttle input.

 

[Will2]

Cool. Let me know how your testing goes. That's how L works on my car and I don't want to lose that functionality because it could be used to engine brake the car in an emergency. I tried L and my car would slowly downshift gear by gear if I just let it continue coasting with no throttle input.

I believe that's the normal intended function. It downshifts for engine braking, and if you coast down to a lower speed, it will downshift again to keep engine braking. I believe if you floor it, it will eventually hit redline and upshift (haven't tried since I'm still in break-in period).

The difference with the FORScan change is that it doesn't display anything in L mode, since the L icon on the dash is replaced by M, and it doesn't show the gear # in L mode.

 

[2024_Night_Mare]

I believe that's the normal intended function. It downshifts for engine braking, and if you coast down to a lower speed, it will downshift again to keep engine braking. I believe if you floor it, it will eventually hit redline and upshift (haven't tried since I'm still in break-in period).

The difference with the FORScan change is that it doesn't display anything in L mode, since the L icon on the dash is replaced by M, and it doesn't show the gear # in L mode.

Yes I agree that is how L is on my Ecoboost and I don't want to lose that functionality. The problem is when I did the mod for gear display my L position no longer worked that way. It acted like it was neutral. What I'd like is to have both.

It's looking like I'm just going to have to get a paddle shift steering wheel and then if I needed to engine brake because of a loss of brakes I could just slowly downshift with the paddles in M.

Besides, the paddle shifters are cool. I think it's stupid that Ford calls the 10R80 a "select shift" transmission when you can't select anything!

 

[slowboy2.3]

Hello all! New 2024 Ecoboost Premium owner here.

I've done some mods with Forscan and they have all went well. But I tried doing the continuous gear display mod and in order to get it to work you have to make the change to have the shifter position "L" change to "M". (I tried to just enable CGD but I had to do the additional mod to make it work.) It worked perfectly on my car, but when I shift to "L" (now "M") it acts like it's in neutral. It drops out of gear and the gear displayed starts to flash. My guess is the car is looking for the paddle shifters and it doesn't see them so it defaults to the safest thing which is neutral. Does anybody know how to get CGD to work and not sacrifice the "L" position on the shifter on a non-paddle shift car?

I may just have to do the paddle shift mod anyway, because it's cool. But I really want to see what gear it's in like on my 2019 F150.

I did this on my EcoBoost. The important thing is that you do not change anything related to the PCM, unless you actually have paddle shifters. All of the changes you need to make are with the IPC.

The two addresses you need to change in the IPC are the continuous gear display and the select shift transmission. CGD is for the gear display in the RPM gauge+gear select and SST for the "M" in your gear select. It won't show otherwise.

 

[2024_Night_Mare]

I did this on my EcoBoost. The important thing is that you do not change anything related to the PCM, unless you actually have paddle shifters. All of the changes you need to make are with the IPC.

The two addresses you need to change in the IPC are the continuous gear display and the select shift transmission. CGD is for the gear display in the RPM gauge+gear select and SST for the "M" in your gear select. It won't show otherwise.

And yet you still have the full functionality of the original "L" position of your shifter?

 

[slowboy2.3]

And yet you still have the full functionality of the original "L" position of your shifter?

I do yes, it won’t show up on the gear display as being in gear but I still retain L functionality. Paddle shifters are on the list though so it won’t be too long with L instead of M

 

[2024_Night_Mare]

I do yes, it won’t show up on the gear display as being in gear but I still retain L functionality. Paddle shifters are on the list though so it won’t be too long with L instead of M

OK I'll give it a shot. I'll check to make sure nothing is out of whack in my PCM. Maybe that's where I had trouble. Thanks!

 

[2024_Night_Mare]

OK so I took some time and hooked up my laptop again and I changed 720-02-01 and 720-12-01 only and then ignition cycled. I was going to check the PCM but kept getting a "process interrupted" notice or something like that. Even after I ignition cycled again and then even tried ignition off, door open/close, and then ignition back on again. Still got the interrupted notice so I said screw it and took the Mare for a spin and this time it worked just like you said. Gears are displayed in every drive mode perfectly. And when I shift to "L" they do disappear like you said but she downshifted and engine braked perfectly just like it should.

Super pumped this now works.

Now I just need to get those paddle shifters!

 

[slowboy2.3]

OK so I took some time and hooked up my laptop again and I changed 720-02-01 and 720-12-01 only and then ignition cycled. I was going to check the PCM but kept getting a "process interrupted" notice or something like that. Even after I ignition cycled again and then even tried ignition off, door open/close, and then ignition back on again. Still got the interrupted notice so I said screw it and took the Mare for a spin and this time it worked just like you said. Gears are displayed in every drive mode perfectly. And when I shift to "L" they do disappear like you said but she downshifted and engine braked perfectly just like it should.

Super pumped this now works.

Now I just need to get those paddle shifters!

Too bad the paddle shifters don’t come separately, you have to buy the whole steering wheel! These cars for parts yards have my number memorized at this point the amount of times I’ve called them for the steering wheel

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