Method for operating a transmission device for a motor vehicle, and corresponding transmission device

A method for operating a transmission device for a motor vehicle, the method comprises:

• selecting a first drive gear with a larger gearing ratio from a drive gear set and setting the first drive gear on a transmission upon going above a rotational speed upper limit;
• selecting a second gear with a smaller gearing ratio from a drive gear set and setting the second drive gear on the transmission upon going below a rotational speed lower limit;
• wherein, in a normal operating mode, the drive gear set corresponds to a normal operation drive gear set having a plurality of different drive gears, and the rotational speed upper limit corresponds to a normal operation rotational speed upper limit and the rotational speed lower limit corresponds to a normal operation rotational speed lower limit,
• wherein, in an alternative operating mode, the drive gear set corresponds to an alternative operation drive gear set, having a smaller number of different drive gears than the normal operation drive gear set, and the rotational speed upper limit corresponds to an alternative operation rotational speed upper limit which is different from the normal operation rotational speed upper limit and/or the rotational speed lower limit corresponds to an alternative operation rotational speed lower limit which is different from the normal operation rotational speed lower limit, and
• the rotational speed upper limit corresponds to an alternative operation rotational speed upper limit which is higher than the normal operation rotational speed upper limit and/or the rotational speed lower limit corresponds to an alternative operation rotational speed lower limit which is lower than the normal operation rotational speed lower limit.