I've been trying to locate a wiring diagram or some semblance of a direction. Trying to figure out how the paddle shift is wired and if it's possible to place a resistor or rewiring to keep it from shifting out of paddle mode and back into regular "D".
I run the car in auto cross and soon it'll be on the road course. I know I should just find a manual MCS but the boss lady drives and refuses to learn a clutch. Any direction towards a fourm already posted or a mind that isn't as fried as mine.

 

It should not come out of manual shifting if you have the shifter in D and then pushed over to sport mode.

 

From drive over to sport. It stays in gear, just doesn't downshift. Up and holding it's awesome. Otherwise the only way to use the paddle shift is in regular drive mode. I've tried all combinations to see what will and will not work.

 

wait when you are in the sport mode and you push the paddle away from you it does not down shift? Mine does. Pull the paddle back to upshift and push away to downshift.

 

In sport mode manual mine will hold a gear only to redline then it will upshift on its own. It will downshift or upshift with paddles, but refuses to downshift if you are going "too fast" for the lower gear. For auto-x this is annoying as it will upshift just before a corner or will block you from downshifting when you want. Best just to leave the paddles alone I have found or just use a different car. Open track is not so bad because you have more time to get in the right gear.

OP the car should not move from sport to normal on it own. Are you moving the gear lever to the right? That engages sport mode and keeps it there with the computer still deciding shift points, but in a higher rpm sporty way. If you use the paddles in sport mode you engage "sport manual" which will hold gears to redline then force an upshift or will hold gears down to stall speed and then force a downshift. If you use the paddles while in normal drive with the lever to the left, the gear will change up or down for about 20 seconds and then revert back to the normal range on its own.