Anyone put Paddle Shifters on their truck? If so, where did you get them? I have column shift. Taking your hand off the steering wheel isn't too safe in the twisties.

 

Most people seem to put the OEM Raptor wheel in and there's a guy online who's been selling the cables to wire the paddles in.

 

Paddle Shifters in a F-150? Got them in our Forester with CVT, but in a F-150? Twisties? Makes no sense to me.

 

Paddle shifters with a CVT? How does that work?

 

Really not "gears" on a CVT as you know, you can floor it from a dead stop and the engine stays at it's max torque while the transmission rapidly changes the ratio and the Forester accelerates seamlessly when in normal drive. In the computor, there are predetermined ratio ranges for 6 ranges selected by the paddles. Like in the mountains, you can just pull the left _ paddle twice and you are in a ranges of ratios defined by programming, labeled as 4 as an example, to slow or hold speed steady. If you then just pull the right + paddle twice, it goes back to 6th or "drive" . If in drive and running on a hilly 2 lane road, etc, the CVT is changing to keep RPMs at most economical RPM while accelerating through a constantly changing ratio, like my old Shop Smith, but with a computor doing the thinking. There is a "I-drive" button too that sharpens engine response and if descending a steep grade, will hold it back to near crawl.

It takes some getting used to, but it seams to work really well getting the most out of a 2.5 litre 4 cyl boxer. When in the mountains, I use the paddles on steeper down grades instead of riding the more than adequate brakes.

It's a '19 Sport edition Forester. Subaru uses their own transmission (well, made in Germany to their specs as I understand it) ... the CVT ratios are changed by changing two pulleys the steel segmented belt runs on. As one pully squeezes and effectively gets bigger, the other one gets wider and creates a deeper V or smaller pulley, the belt stays the same length.