Thread: 09 e90 loaner
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Old 05-19-2009, 10:47 PM   #5
Nick M3
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Too much torque converter lockup and too much of a tendency to start in second (with awkward dropping to first when you touch the pedal wrong) are what do it, IMHO. The irony is that the current automatics clearly perform far better at the limit. They just feel like crap everywhere else.
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