|| On or around Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:27:15 -0000, "Richard Brookman" || enlightened us thusly: || ||| Yup, it's a "feature". Mine does the same, although 55 sounds a ||| bit high. It certainly seems to hang onto 3rd more than you would ||| do if you had a manual change. It's worse with towing. I recently ||| towed a caravan the length of Wales and back, all on A and B roads, ||| and it spent a lot of time in 3rd and even 2nd. I've learned to ||| live with it. I've been told that a chip upgrade will help it hold ||| a higher gear on hills etc, and I'm looking into this myself. || || not sure on those how the 'box is run. if it's still traditional || mechanical you can tweak the kickdown cable settings. if it's || electronic, then you can presumably alter the programming somehow, || but buggered if I know how.
It's all electronic, with a throttle pot and no kickdown cable in sight.