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What the owners manual says......about control over shifting.
In the following situations the 7-gear Sports Automatic Transmission with double clutch does the thinking for you:
Upshifts and downshifts are executed only when they will resultin a plausible combination of engine and vehicle speed; thus, for example a downshift that could cause the engine to overrev will not be executed by the system
This HAS been my experience that when pushed to redline it shifts for you and it appears on downshifting it will also "think" for you...........
Sorry for all those folks who want complete control, but now that I think of it some of the articles I have read on new M3 DCT says that some of the testdrivers found that the engine was shifting for them under testing conditions so it sounds like a programming issue that is there to "protect components" which considering BMW has one of the best warranties in the biz.....makes sense.....
Last edited by msos; 05-15-2010 at 04:13 PM..
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