do i still have the v4 mode with a basic 2WT

[MikeNH]

It's been easy for me. Before I disabled it on my 2011 it was the same but that was much less transparent. The new trucks still have a slight shudder when in 4 cyl mode.

[Lawnmower2020]

The new trucks still have a slight shudder when in 4 cyl mode.

 

Don't you think that might be a bit of an over-generalization? Mine doesn't shudder. My 2011 didn't either. In the 2014 (both with 5.3L motor), I've challenged three different passengers to tell me if/when they feel anything like a hesitation or shudder while driving over smooth mixed level/slight-hill kind of terrain with cruise on. I even told them "It's switching now", and asked them to tell me when. No one has reported sensing anything. I don't feel or hear anything. IMO it works really well, on my sample size of two.

 

Kind of makes you wonder if there might be some relationship between the vibrators and shuddering, doesn't it? That's not such a stretch if the vibration is related to, say, something like motor mounts. Coincidentally, my 2014 is smooth as silk as fast as I've ever driven it -- about 80 briefly.

[MikeNH]

None of the SUVs I've driven had vibration issues like people have been chasing. But AFM is not transparent in the new ones. It is much, much less obvious but you can still spot the transition. I hate to sound like a jerk but if you couldn't notice it in the 2011 then I wouldn't expect you to be able to on a new truck.

[KARNUT]

Its more noticeable if you change the exhaust, the vibration that is and the sound for sure.

[Lawnmower2020]

But AFM is not transparent in the new ones. It is much, much less obvious but you can still spot the transition. I hate to sound like a jerk but if you couldn't notice it in the 2011 then I wouldn't expect you to be able to on a new truck.

 

Not transparent ----- says you. Who made you king decider? You have no business trying to tell me what I (and my passengers) do or do not feel in MY truck.

 

I don't doubt for a minute that there are vehicles out there that vibrate like mad. I also don't doubt that there are some (maybe even a majority but I have no information on that) where you can feel the 8-4 or 4-8 transition. But I'm not about to go around saying "YOU ARE WRONG" to those who DO feel something, and I'll thank you to refrain from telling me that I'm wrong for NOT feeling it.

 

Seriously, as a moderator you ought to know better than this.

[PMattras]

I am wondering if you can trade out the black and white driver's information screen on (WT models) and put in the color screen with additional information. Not sure if it is the same wire harness to be able to work or get the 4/8 screen. I don't know what the cost is for the color screen.

[akiyonaga]

I am wondering if you can trade out the black and white driver's information screen on (WT models) and put in the color screen with additional information. Not sure if it is the same wire harness to be able to work or get the 4/8 screen. I don't know what the cost is for the color screen.

I would like to know this as well...

[Test Alpha]

I drive a 2014 1W/T, just purchased a 2014 GMC SLT for my wife. Her truck has the big IntelliLink screen, after I drive her truck and get in mine my radio seems to be the size of a business card

 

I don't care about have the V8/V4 indicator, if I had it in my truck I'd spend too much time watching it switch between modes because the transition from 8 to 4 in both trucks is so seemless I don't know when it occurs.

[keakar]

I drive a 2014 1W/T, just purchased a 2014 GMC SLT for my wife. Her truck has the big IntelliLink screen, after I drive her truck and get in mine my radio seems to be the size of a business card

 

I don't care about have the V8/V4 indicator, if I had it in my truck I'd spend too much time watching it switch between modes because the transition from 8 to 4 in both trucks is so seemless I don't know when it occurs.

well in v8 you get 8mpg and in v4 you get 20mpg (literally) so for those of us that drive economically its a good tool to have to maximize overall mpg, that's all.

 

I saw in the loaner truck how I can see v4 and v8 as well as instant mpg in all conditions and the HUGE difference in the two iw something worth watching if you never did before.

 

money is tight for me so if I can get 25 or 30 more miles out of a tank of gas I want to try.

[Test Alpha]

I'm averaging 22.4 hand calculated on my W/T so not having the V8/V4 indicator doesn't affect me one bit. If you need to watch your V8 to V4 that close your gonna be busy!

 

Are you saying that everyone who's disabled the V4 mode is only getting 8 mpg?

[keakar]

I'm averaging 22.4 hand calculated on my W/T so not having the V8/V4 indicator doesn't affect me one bit. If you need to watch your V8 to V4 that close your gonna be busy!

 

Are you saying that everyone who's disabled the V4 mode is only getting 8 mpg?

im saying the crap on the display says it drops to 8mpg when in v8 mode and accelerating, when coasting in v8 mode its like 12mpg (again, according to the display)

 

I drive my truck very easy and never in a hurry to go anywhere (im the guy always holding up traffic going slow) and I was getting 16 mpg average on actual recorded at the pump mpg driven 30% city and 70% highway miles with 3,08 gears and the 5.3 engine

[Test Alpha]

im saying the crap on the display says it drops to 8mpg when in v8 mode and accelerating, when coasting in v8 mode its like 12mpg (again, according to the display)

 

I drive my truck very easy and never in a hurry to go anywhere (im the guy always holding up traffic going slow) and I was getting 16 mpg average on actual recorded at the pump mpg driven 30% city and 70% highway miles with 3,08 gears and the 5.3 engine

LOL, I thought I was the guy holding up traffic and going slow I guess one slow driver in Louisiana and one in Texas is alright