as any1 used the paddle shifter in there 09 TL..if u do what u think

 

When I first got my car, I used them all the time but I found that the transmission does a great job without the need of the shifters. I do use them for downshifting a lot to let the engine do some of the work for the brakes.

 

+1

 

I like to use them when going down hills in "D", but I wish you could use the gear selector too. Paddle shifters feel too much like a video game.

 

Sometimes I used the without even knowing and i'm like oh that why it was so easy to over take someone out of a turn on a twisty. I looks down and see the gear number and say oh I guess I did tap it. But rarely ever use it myself.

 

i think they should of made it like the 3G

 

would that do any harm to slow the car down with lower gears? (downshift)

 

The car seems a lot peppier in 'S' mode. I mean it lets to stay in 3rd a lot more and your RPMs are higher, meaning a better experience. Who cares about gas mileage.

 

It holds gears longer in 'S' mode, so it will feel peppier (higher RPM).

I only use the paddle shifters about 15% of the time, but can't ignore them entirely, as I came from a MT car I loved. The only way I would buy a AT car was to have some control over it. The 2010 was not out when I bought the TL.

The paddles work well. I with they were steering wheel mounted like the Maxima (as you will miss where they are in tight turns). I wish the shifts were faster, but this is not a sports car. (That having been said, when I test drove the 2009 Maxima the paddle shifts were immediate. The Max has a CVT, though (which is one reason I didn't buy it -- who knows how long that'll last) which makes manually shifting relatively useless.

Back to the TL... I use the paddles in D mode to downshift to pass and to slow down at corners/hills. This will not hurt the car (does it itself sometimes) unless you are ALWAYS redlining it by shifting too much. It won't let you do anything stupid.

I use them in 'S' more then in 'D' as I like to control the shifts aaround curves and on the highway. Coming from a MT, I don't like cars dropping down to 3rd on the freeway at 80 MPH when I hit the gas. Most of the time the car has enough power in 4th when I mash the gas. In AT mode, who knows what it will do when you floor it. And if paddle shifting in 'D', sometimes you will kick it down a gear as you are accelerating at the same time it is downshifting and you'll get a double shift.

With paddles in 'S' -- it is wonderful -- it does whay you wand and has no nannying -- unless you rev way to high or way too low. Wonderful. Wonderful.

 

i use the paddle shifters going into turns when i want to drive aggressively. That's about it.

 

I mainly keep in my car in "D", and sometimes use the paddle shifter to down shift when exiting freeway to take the off ramp. Haven't really tried "S" mode. But I like the fact that paddle shifter works in "D". It knows to go back to auto mode after I downshift without doing anything else.

 

The logic about "going back to auto mode" is what bugs me. Sometimes it does it, sometimes it holds 3rd gear even after many seconds of steady throttle. You can make it go back to full-auto mode if you hold the right paddle for a couple seconds, but this is kinda awkward and its always going to request an upshift first. It would be better if they let you push both paddles simultaneously to go back to auto mode, or something.

 

That's true. I haven't figured out why sometimes it would go back to auto mode while sometimes as you mentioned I would have to click the right paddle shifter... Somewhat random.