What's your Drive Mode for daily driving?

[YukonRanger]

Right now in winter im on Slippery mode

No apparent mileage hit so far in 4A

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[cc1999]

Steering comfort
Exhaust quiet
Suspension off road / not sure I can tell much difference in the suspension modes.
Start/ stop defeated by my eliminator.

 

[ReduxEngineer]

If I'm off to work it's normal, auto start/stop deactivated, and quiet exhaust

Other than that generally just keep the truck in Normal mode, though lately with all of the rain and twisty mountain pass roads I sometimes get on to work and just general standing water I've been keeping it in Slippery/Wet mode.

 

[Ranger XLT Fan]

XLT owner. Eco mode with auto start/stop off.

Samsies

 

[RRRmaya]

R mode = baja exhaust, sport suspension, comfort suspension, and auto start/stop off

 

[Johnny 5]

Raptor Button:

Auto Stop/Start: OFF !!!

Steering: Sport
Shocks: Normal
Exhaust: Sport
Trans: 4A

If your going to leave it in 4A like me, keep in mind (at least on mine because of my aggressive driving) your front tires will wear out faster than rear tires.

 

[RaptorME]

Raptor. Normal mode, comfort steering, normal suspension, sport exhaust. ASS disabled with a tune. I recently tried the sport suspension setting though and honestly couldn't believe how much it reduced the body roll on corners.

 

[richman555]

For me and my style of driving it's in normal. I actually loose gas mileage in ECO. In real world testing ECO mode has very little purpose and gas mileage savings. It was supposedly primarily designed for heavy stop and go driving, think bumper to bumper type. Then it might actually show a difference. After driving for so many years I have my own pretty efficient ECO mode built in by varying the lead in the foot!

I have experienced this - ECO is great around my local neighborhood. Normal would get too herky jerky with the gearing with the stop and go traffic in my area. Its like too many gears and not enough time. Anytime I have to hit the highway, then it's Normal mode for sure.

 

[Lion77]

All via the R button:

Normal Drive

Sport Damping on the shocks

Sport Steering

Quiet Exhaust

4A in winter and 2H in summer unless it's raining (then 4A summer)

Auto / Stop - Start disabled

I like the sportier handling / weighted sport steering having come from a GT with very sticky summer tires in a 275 square setup, but I don't want a loud exhaust note attracting attention or droning during highway cruising or around the neighborhoods as it tends to irritate people, especially late at night coming home from a trip on Sundays.

Normal drive mode offers a good balance of fuel economy for mostly cruising either highway or around town, but it will still down shift pretty well if I really need to step on it for passing / merging.

For hooniganism on paved or gravel pack back country roads, Sport mode all the way, unless the road is really rutted / potholed, I might do Sport + Normal suspension damping, but I've only been on one gravel road that rutted I didn't want sport damping (road had a lot of horizontal washout from downpours and run-off from adjacent farm fields).

I won't go into the off-road stuff since that's all self-explanatory.

 

[Lion77]

Raptor. Normal mode, comfort steering, normal suspension, sport exhaust. ASS disabled with a tune. I recently tried the sport suspension setting though and honestly couldn't believe how much it reduced the body roll on corners.

That's why I use Sport damping on normal mode, I can drive it like a big fat momentum car....except I can add momentum on demand with 455 HP unlike actual momentum cars because their balls always fall off by 3rd gear . This truck pulls all the way up through the gears

 

[garyo]

Right now in winter im on Slippery mode

No apparent mileage hit so far in 4A

Wish I had slippery mode 4A in my ‘24 Lariat. But for winter I find eco mode is great as less spin, 300lbs added over rear axel and sometimes need 4H lately due to snow. Midwest Canada… tires nokian nAT’s which are not too good on ice but great in deep snow. The eco mode helps for daily city and highway mind you.

 

[FirstFord1]

I found this useful.
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[Lion77]

Watched the Video, some comments for thinking people:

#1 towing in "Eco Mode" is stupid and user error, not a Ford problem. It's a brainpower problem....lol.

#2 I can kind of understand that one, use it in a limited capacity, not all the time because you lazy. Maybe in a difficult situation like in the city at a resteraunt or if your holding up traffic, otherwise, good old fashioned driving skills.

#3 .....every car ever made in the last 12 decades? In Situ DLC films can largely solve wear from extended idling. Any utility vehicle will see a lot of idle time (LE, EMS, Linemen's Work Trucks, Construction etc.). Carbon buildup in DI engines isn't from idling; it's from SHORT CYCLING. Aka driving short distances where the engine doesn't come fully up to temp and vaporize the misture in the engine, which then causes sludging in the oil and carbon deposits, increased fuel washing etc. Short cycling would be any trips in the 5–10-mile or less range. All engines are susceptible to wear issues from short cycling, but smaller lower powered engines with thinner oils tend to do better since they warm up quicker.

#4 Auto Start / Stop has nothing to do with Ford; it has to do with the EPA / Bureaucracy. It's in EVERY make and model now. Mazda was vehemently resisted it until 2024 (even my 2023 Mazd 3 Carbon did not have auto / start top, but my dad's 2024 CX-90 did), but now with 2026 models, they took it back out lol. The wife just got a 2026 CX-50 Premium, no auto start stop, but the 2024 and 2025's had it lol. The EPA should mandate auto manufacturers offer a software update to make it OFF BY DEFAULT in every car already made....to correct for their own stupidity.

#5 I disagree with sport mode, I see no temp differences between sport and Normal, at least not on the Raptor. Maybe the Raptor has higher capacity radiator given it's baja nature, but I doubt it's any different than the regular Rangers. The only issue I see with Sport mode is people can't keep their right foot off and basically are "hot lapping" the truck like they would a Mustang GT....but then again, I've seen some on this very forum actually hot lap the RR on a road course without any heat issues. So not sure that claim applies to the Ranger's in general, maybe the F-150 non-raptors?

 

[Johnny 5]

I found this useful.
Short Video

That's why God made crate engines

 

[spazzyfry123]

Raptor
Normal mode all around 90% of the time. When I feel like grinning, I go for Sport with Baja exaust. Went out to Charlie's Creek in North Georgia and up on Musterground road on NC SC border. Baja mode was insane! It was begging me to go faster and faster! Off road mode was great.

Where are you getting any speed on Charlie’s Creek?? You’re in my backyard! I have yet to see another Ranger Raptor on the road here in North Georgia.

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