i am getting volvo i shift shortley is there anyone know of any point to watch for or things that can bightme
No, it is beautifully simple, just put it in “A” (for automatic) and off you go.
“R” is reverse and there are a couple of other positions that you will never use.
The olny problem you might have is when climbing a moderate hill when it will “hunt” between gears. Just push one of the buttons on the side to lock it into gear.
The best auto gearbox out there. Pretty much as harry as said.
The button he refer’s to is just behind the lever marked ‘E/P’. It defaults to E, on a really steep incline hit the button and it changes down earlier and holds the gear higher up the revs. The only hill i’ve used it on is Birdlip. Some have a kickdown function on the throttle, but it depends on the software, mine hasn’t but it’s just as easy to drop into manual and change anyway.
When you change from forward to reverse and vice versa, make sure your stationary, or it won’t select the gear. And if your creeping back/forwards and you touch the brakes it will disengage the gear and you’ll need to touch the throttle to get it back. (that sounds worse than it is).
If your doing site work, I find it better to use manual if the site is a bit dodgey.
Just remember it can’t see the road in front, so you may have to give it a hand sometimes.
Wonderful gearbox to use fuse. Really simple, well it’s got to be for me to use it! 
If you alter the air suspension from normal ride height, while dropping a trailer for instance, the A setting will only select 1st which can catch you unaware as you then shoot out from under the trailer like a rocket. 
watch youre fuel consumption go through the roof 
scania245:
watch youre fuel consumption go through the roof
Don’t understand this, trucks with automatic gearboxes have better fuel consumption.
They are not like cars. The I-Shift gearbox is not a “wet” gearbox with a torque converter, it is a manual gearbox with the gear changing controlled by electronics and hydraulics. It changes gear at the optimum time, always.
Could you expand on what you mean by “watching your fuel consumption go through the roof”?
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Harry Monk:
scania245:
watch youre fuel consumption go through the roofDon’t understand this, trucks with automatic gearboxes have better fuel consumption.
They are not like cars. The I-Shift gearbox is not a “wet” gearbox with a torque converter, it is a manual gearbox with the gear changing controlled by electronics and hydraulics. It changes gear at the optimum time, always.
Could you expand on what you mean by “watching your fuel consumption go through the roof”?
sorry harry respect you but ■■■■■■■■ if you want a good fuel consumption you need a manual box the driver decides the gear 
these auto boxes aint fit for purpose (here i go again ) ps the dafatronic changes gear at the optimum time
The two i-shifts I ran both returned excellent fuel consumption figures, around 11 mpg over the time I had them and often on single trips even higher. My mate bought one of them when I finished with it and it is still returning those sort of figures.
Coffeeholic:
The two i-shifts I ran both returned excellent fuel consumption figures, around 11 mpg over the time I had them and often on single trips even higher. My mate bought one of them when I finished with it and it is still returning those sort of figures.
cant argue with site admin can i 
scania245:
Coffeeholic:
The two i-shifts I ran both returned excellent fuel consumption figures, around 11 mpg over the time I had them and often on single trips even higher. My mate bought one of them when I finished with it and it is still returning those sort of figures.cant argue with site admin can i
You can, if you have some kind of evidence to back up your statement.
It is not really debatable as to whether manual or automatic gearboxes give better fuel consumption. Autoboxes do. As you yourself said, with a manual gearbox, the driver chooses the gear. And a driver, no matter how good, will never be able to do that as well as an electronic system.
scania245:
Coffeeholic:
The two i-shifts I ran both returned excellent fuel consumption figures, around 11 mpg over the time I had them and often on single trips even higher. My mate bought one of them when I finished with it and it is still returning those sort of figures.cant argue with site admin can i
That wasn’t posted as site admin but as a very satisfied user of i-shifts. Feel free to argue as much as you want.
A problem I’ve found is that when fully freighted and trying to pull away on an incline, the box will often select an inappropriately high gear, resulting in a stall. It will often preselect 4th or 3rd when 2nd or even 1st is required. In these situations, I now check on the display which gear is engaged before pulling away and if necessary select Manual and then a lower gear. Once up and running, move the lever back to Automatic and job’s a good 'un.
I drive volvos with I shift and DAFs with as tronic on bulk tank work grossing 44 tonnes and if you just put them in auto and nail the throttle to the floor you will get much worse mpg than if you use a more sensible approach and only use half the travel on the throttle pedal and use manual sometimes , the DAF especially will go way past the green on the rev counter when going up the gears or hill climbing if you floor the pedal. I,m getting 8.5 mpg on my present DAF over the last 150,000km
I can get an mpg of 9 running fully loaded most of the night .
On a long run the best I got was 10.3 .
Had it upto 12 one night but hit a few hills and then it dropped back down to 9 .
thanks for the info gentlmen it was most helpfull
Oh! And don’t accidentally leave it in gear overnight. When the air pressure drops, it ain’t going to go back into neutral and therefore won’t start until the nice man comes to fill the air tanks up again…
Beware of the ‘eco roll’ if yours is programmed to use it.
It’s a system that selects neutral gear on downward slopes when you are using the cruise control. If the speed exceeds 4 or 5 kph over the CC setting it will re-select the gear & slow you down again.It can be a little worrying the first time it happens but does wonders for your MPG.
Most of the i-shift trucks I’ve driven use it but I think it’s something that operators can turn on or off using the on board computer system.
From what I’ve read about ishift, and from what I’ve been told by people who actually drive them they sound like the dogs dagglies 
, but it really amazes me how manufacturers don’t seem to learn from each others mistakes.
Now Merc have been doing a fully auto for nearly ten years, and its a bit behind on technology compared to the ishift, but the two problems below don’t occur on the autotrans
Henrys cat:
When you change from forward to reverse and vice versa, make sure your stationary, or it won’t select the gear. And if your creeping back/forwards and you touch the brakes it will disengage the gear and you’ll need to touch the throttle to get it back. (that sounds worse than it is).
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OK you can’t do forward to reverse whilst rolling forward on the autotrans(but the new powershift will), but you can go reverse to forward whilst rolling backwards, and it allways stays in a gear unless neutral is selected.
Inselaffe:
Oh! And don’t accidentally leave it in gear overnight. When the air pressure drops, it ain’t going to go back into neutral and therefore won’t start until the nice man comes to fill the air tanks up again…
As long as the handbrake is on, turning off the engine on the Merc whilst in gear selects neutral.
So as there was already an auto on the market when ZF were developing their self cog swapper, what the [zb] were ZF doing not making sure that its box was at least the equal to the autotrans in all situations, not just better in others. 
numpties.
The only thing I needed to watch we me getting lazy.
As everyone seems to agree it is one of the best boxes around.
Fantastic for round-abouts etc …You can watch whats happening more instead of messing around with the gears.
Sam