02-13-2024, 10:53 AM | #71 | |
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I get your point about the M5 serving its mission as under the radar too. Good point.
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02-26-2024, 08:08 PM | #72 |
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Is this an M5 thing, a BMW thing, or is something off?
When slowing down from basically any speed and at any rate of deceleration, I don't recall ever feeling a car downshift as the car slows. It just basically does its thing in the background. I don't recall this on any other automatic. The cars just come smoothly to a stop and when you are ready to go again, it is in 1st gear. On the M5, I can feel the car down shift to 3rd, 2nd, etc. It's not abrupt, or jerky, but you notice it. It can feel sporty and cool but in efficient+comfort mode, you'd expect this to go away. Maybe this is a DCT thing and they wanted to mimic the effect? Also, as I slow and creep towards a parked car and I have a soft amount of pressure on the brake pedal, the car will downshift (2-1?) and all of a sudden it slows less slowly and I have to adjust the rate of braking. Today I was stuck on some awful traffic where I was at a stop-crawl for an hour. I noticed that while on "efficient" the car would right away shift to 2nd, and as I needed to stop again, this noticeable 2-1 shift happened every time. I found that changing the car to Sport made it hold 1st gear through ~5mph and avoided this constant 1-2-1 shift. Any thoughts? Do other BMW ZF 8-speed autos do this? |
02-26-2024, 08:52 PM | #73 |
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02-26-2024, 09:00 PM | #74 |
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02-26-2024, 09:20 PM | #75 | |
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Yes! I remember my old f10 5 series did this and it kind of bugged me. And yeah I used to do the same thing in traffic to keep it in 1st. I even wrote a letter to bmw at one point about this saying wtf Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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02-26-2024, 09:30 PM | #76 |
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02-26-2024, 09:38 PM | #77 | |
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02-26-2024, 09:42 PM | #78 |
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Thanks. Yeah, not a deal breaker, just different. But I bought the car used, so I wanted to be sure it wasn't some weird thing I should have checked out.
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02-26-2024, 10:04 PM | #79 |
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Further confirmation, my mother’s former F85 X5 (S63) did the same thing.
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