Toyota Tacoma ECT PWR Button EXPLAINED ** Heavy Duty Mechanic** | Does it Actually Increase POWER ?

[Music] what is going on today guys my name is alex welcome back to the channel tonight we have once again this beautiful 2019 toyota tacoma trd off-road edition beautiful truck i actually really like it but today i brought it in the shop because i want to talk about the ect power button i hear a lot of stuff on the internet about this thing and i figured i would see what all the all the fuss is about so we're going to dive into what exactly that is how to use it when to use it and like i said what exactly it does now for beginners ect means electronically controlled transmission you saw i just looked out of my notes there because i almost forgot it what the rumor is is that it is like a power boost to these trucks and whatever toyota vehicle is equipped with the ect button that is kind of a myth i hate to break it to right away early in this video that's really not what's going on in fact ect button as the name would say electronic control transmission has everything to do with your transmission and really nothing to do with your engine basically what it does is it just holds your shifts longer creating higher rpms when you need more torque delivered to your wheels and so it may feel like there's increase in power but really what's happening is that the truck is forcing higher rpms which gives more torque which will feel like you're pulling stronger but in fact there really is no actual added engine power the intended use of this button is for when you need added power perfect example when you're towing or hauling stuff unfortunately i don't have a trailer yet but what i do have is some barrels we can fill with water and we will max out the payload of this truck i'll show you guys how to find the payload on this truck and uh what payload's all about so stay tuned for that the etc button is basically like a tow haul mode button on any other truck i have a video with my ram 1500 tow haul and it basically does the same thing um you know it just basically holds your transmission longer in lower gears and therefore pumping up those rpms hopefully delivering more power uh well dare i say power more torque giving you the best performance when you need that torque now we are going to jump out into the real world here and i'm going to show exactly why there is literally zero change to the engine power with the etc but on or with the etc button off and the most perfect example is well to floor it to make those rpms go all the way to redline no matter what and if the etc button did actually increase engine power we would see rpms climbing faster than without the button on so so first off we will keep the ect power off we will go up to 100 kilometers an hour and i'll try to make it as even as possible but it should be pretty easy we're just gonna put my pedal to the floor three two one here we go [Music] so for the second run we will obviously turn the ect power on here we go foot is all the way down [Music] here we go so slowing down the clips we can see the rpms are climbing at basically the exact same rate and then our speed gets to 100 basically at the same time so there really is no power difference now i know some toyota owners are going to swear that it does feel faster and the added torque or added revs will probably make it feel quicker but unfortunately there really just is no power game if that makes sense now what we are gonna do is actually test that ect button out in an ideal situation like i said we're gonna load up this truck with its max payload and it's a little bit trickier to test because like we just saw you can't go full throttle but what we will do is load the truck up and we will go about half throttled and what we should see is that the rpms will dramatically increase per shift with the ect button on versus not on okay like i said we're gonna briefly go over payload for this truck um the internet says payload for a 2019 toyota tacoma is about 1400 pounds and that's wrong well not necessarily it's right in a very specific configuration of the truck has to be two-wheel drive has to be i believe a four-cylinder engine in there with this configuration truck v6 short box trd four-wheel drive um it is only a thousand pounds now how do i know that well every single vehicle will have the payload on a sticker on the driver's side so let's check that out right now so we got the door open and you guys can see a thousand pounds is the max payload for this truck so not too bad right we can load a thousand pounds over the stuff in the box wrong um you need a driver in there so that weight comes out of the payload in fact any weight besides fuel and fluids comes out of the payload so if you have 50 pounds of groceries plus a driver in there call a driver 200 pounds that's 250 pounds of payload already in the cab you can only have 750 pounds in the box so we'll load up each of these two barrels but three quarters of the way to give us 800 pounds and that will give us our max payload damn this thing actually takes its payload really well i mean it's only 800 pounds while it's a thousand with my fat ass in the seat um well i guess 800 pounds and counting we got a little leak here and a little dribble but uh wow kind of impressed actually this thing actually takes this load really nicely it's a little squat in the back a little raised up in the front but nothing crazy for a max payload okay so first we'll start with esc off here oh it's like i said i'm gonna go half throttle here and we'll see how these gears sweat change all right so here we go there's about half throttle for a second we will turn the ect system on and we will see if we can tell or feel a difference in shift patterns here with a max payload on this truck so i'll pull it dangerously into traffic here once again fully stopping all right here we go half throttle again oh yeah that is very noticeable actually [Music] so when we slow down this run it's very obvious with the ect power on that the truck seems to get up to speed much faster and it holds the rpms longer therefore helping getting up to speed and uh driving it was very very obvious that this was helping so there you go guys it felt very obvious to me driving the truck that with the ect button on um the shifts held actually quite a bit longer and in fact like i said i did the same video with my ram 1500 um you know they called the tow haul button but essentially it's the same thing and it was not that noticeable this thing really kind of adds some pep um when you're kind of at half throttle which i can see now why people think it adds power because the rpms really do rise quickly i'm not sure if there's maybe some throttle you know input differences going on here maybe maybe not from what i heard it was strictly just transmission but it does feel like there's a little bit of you know throttle tinkling going on there so who knows now lastly driving with your ect will it damage anything absolutely not the only it's gonna damage is your wallet because it's gonna really increase your fuel economy or actually sorry decrease your fuel economy it's going to increase your payments at the pump well guys hopefully that was a little bit insightful for anyone who's wondering what that actual magic button does and as always i hope you liked the video if you did don't forget to leave that thumbs up anyways enough of me we'll see in the next freaking video

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 29 2022