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Originally Posted by ParkNuts
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Originally Posted by cobra351w
I guess anything's possible, with the correct code.!
Well off to the dealers this morning, armed with the postings, so they can't tell me it's me.!
Try and find out about the mythical code, see if it's global, and see if it's fixed.
I'll also try to find out if they upgraded the code,as per SIB-12-22-10 in the past year when I've had the car, as I'm damn sure it didn't do this, when I first had it.!
regards..
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I have good news for you. I was probably the #1 complainer about the slow roll throttle lag and I talked with my dealer about the issue for over a year. About a month ago I got a call to bring my car in because my guy in the service dept did some research and told me BMW was working on a fix. They finally have it. I'm not sure exactly what the software code is for it but it has pretty much completely alleviated the issue. Much more predictable and no more wondering when the car is going to move. Bring your car in and ask for an update specifically for the DCT cars. It has transformed the car and I'm finally super happy with it.
With regard to putting M-DCT software on our cars it's extremely doubtful - and in my case not necessary anymore. That software has to account for the ability to tweak those particular settings and we don't have the hardware to do that in our cars. It would take experts time to code the software and make it applicable to our cars. But like I said, don't worry about this option and get your car in for the new software update. |
There's just now a software fix? They told me there was a fix due out in a month back in July 2011 that never materialized. I had the same issues with my 2011 and a tech was able to repeatedly reproduce the transmission lag at low speeds, even in manual sport mode. The PUMA case showed that the trans was the source and there were no issues with traction control intervening and causing it to not accelerate predictably from a stop or low speeds. It would sometimes suddenly slam into gear if you rolled on the throttle more to try and get the car moving. There were also other weird things going on with the DCT in my car as, so I just couldn't trust the thing. BMW ended up buying that one back and replaced it with a manual car. There are occasional times I miss being able to put the thing in full auto mode while in traffic but not many.
I got to drive a DCT M3 recently and I see what some of the other posters mean. It acts much more intuitively to the driver's style and what it is asked to do. I may be completely wrong, but wouldn't it have been more cost effective to have just went with MDCT software/hardware versus developing a completely different version for the 1er?