O.K......some may think I have lost my mind. Naturally, I can't be the best judge of that, because if it were true I'd likely be the last to know.
Going back about 15 years ago now, when I bought my 94 Formula, I remember vividly taking one out for a test drive. Obviously, I fell in love with the car and ordered one.
When I got my car, I immediately noticed a problem with shifting. What the heck was this nonsense of it not allowing me into second gear from first? Well, I consulted the manual and discovered all about the wonders of the GM Skip Shift. Are they kidding?, I thought!
It was less than a week later I called the dealer and said I want to disable this feature if possible, as I considered the car undrivable in some circumstances. I explained to them that people don't elect to by a high performance car so they can have software in a chip designed by a treehugger tell them what gear they need to be in!!!! They protested at first, but when I threatened to bring the car back, especially since I knew they had it disabled on the test drive vehicle, they finally saw it my way.
So......here I am, after 15 years of shifting bliss, and when I went out for a drive yesterday--- it was back!!!! At first I didn't believe it. But no, it is working again!
Now how the *bleep* can this be?
My understanding that to bypass the S/S on an obd2 vehicle, you substitute a resistor in the connector that normally goes to the solenoid. That makes sense. PCM still sees the load on that line and thinks everything is normal.
Mine is obd1 though, and I thought that all you had to do was simply unplug the thing. I have assumed all along that is what they did. Never had an SES light, though the skip shift lamp on the dash would light during the times it would normally be activated. I remember because it made me laugh from time to time.
I haven't been under the car yet, but I'll have a chance to get it in the air tommorrow. How on earth could this have been disabled, but then start up again by itself?
If they used the resistor method, and the resistor fell out, it still wouldn't allow the solenoid to work. It couldn't have reconnected itself!!
Does anyone know if the dealerships had ways to "program" the pcm to ignore the skip shift?
Interesting, infuriating, and mysterious--- all at the same time...
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Going back about 15 years ago now, when I bought my 94 Formula, I remember vividly taking one out for a test drive. Obviously, I fell in love with the car and ordered one.
When I got my car, I immediately noticed a problem with shifting. What the heck was this nonsense of it not allowing me into second gear from first? Well, I consulted the manual and discovered all about the wonders of the GM Skip Shift. Are they kidding?, I thought!
It was less than a week later I called the dealer and said I want to disable this feature if possible, as I considered the car undrivable in some circumstances. I explained to them that people don't elect to by a high performance car so they can have software in a chip designed by a treehugger tell them what gear they need to be in!!!! They protested at first, but when I threatened to bring the car back, especially since I knew they had it disabled on the test drive vehicle, they finally saw it my way.
So......here I am, after 15 years of shifting bliss, and when I went out for a drive yesterday--- it was back!!!! At first I didn't believe it. But no, it is working again!
Now how the *bleep* can this be?
My understanding that to bypass the S/S on an obd2 vehicle, you substitute a resistor in the connector that normally goes to the solenoid. That makes sense. PCM still sees the load on that line and thinks everything is normal.
Mine is obd1 though, and I thought that all you had to do was simply unplug the thing. I have assumed all along that is what they did. Never had an SES light, though the skip shift lamp on the dash would light during the times it would normally be activated. I remember because it made me laugh from time to time.
I haven't been under the car yet, but I'll have a chance to get it in the air tommorrow. How on earth could this have been disabled, but then start up again by itself?
![EEK!](https://f-body.com/core/images/smilies/eek.gif)
If they used the resistor method, and the resistor fell out, it still wouldn't allow the solenoid to work. It couldn't have reconnected itself!!
Does anyone know if the dealerships had ways to "program" the pcm to ignore the skip shift?
Interesting, infuriating, and mysterious--- all at the same time...
![spaze](http://www.myfirehawk.net/bsb/images/smilies/spaz.gif)
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