what is kickdown mode

newbmwfans · 10-28-2008, 01:42 AM

Is is same as DS mode? or just D mode?

arrutled · 10-28-2008, 06:29 AM

I was under the impression that kickdown is for automatics. when you hit the pedal all the way down it will cause the car to "kickdown" to a lower gear and then you will take off! am i wrong?

gatorfast · 10-28-2008, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by arrutled

I was under the impression that kickdown is for automatics. when you hit the pedal all the way down it will cause the car to "kickdown" to a lower gear and then you will take off! am i wrong?

Correct!

3toM · 10-28-2008, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by arrutled

I was under the impression that kickdown is for automatics. when you hit the pedal all the way down it will cause the car to "kickdown" to a lower gear and then you will take off! am i wrong?

You are correct. I had an auto in my last BMW. As you press the pedal down all the way, there is a slight resistance point. If you press down beyond that point, the car with go into a lower gear to improve acceleration, even if driving in DS or "manual" modes.

Yearofthe1 · 10-28-2008, 09:05 AM

Isn't there a little button there below the gas pedal that is pushed when you floor it? I thought the button is what activates kickdown mode. I don't have an auto, so I can't check.

3toM · 10-29-2008, 12:22 AM

Not sure about a button, and I don't have the car anymore to check, but I know I could always feel that point in the pedal when I got to it. Maybe what I was feeling was resistance from a button being pushed?

MZWIE · 10-29-2008, 06:51 AM

RTFMDA

jeremyc74 · 10-29-2008, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Yearofthe1

Isn't there a little button there below the gas pedal that is pushed when you floor it? I thought the button is what activates kickdown mode. I don't have an auto, so I can't check.

There's a switch under the gas pedal that is pressed when you floor it.

(I don't have an auto right now either, but that's the way BMWs have been in the past, and the one I test drove felt the same.)

Tom K. · 10-29-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by arrutled

I was under the impression that kickdown is for automatics. when you hit the pedal all the way down it will cause the car to "kickdown" to a lower gear and then you will take off! am i wrong?

The majority of automatic transmissions have had this kickdown switch ever since the GM Hydra-matic was introduced around 1940.

IIRC, it was also the method of causing a shift from overdrive to direct back when some MT equipped cars had the OD option.
Tom

newbmwfans · 10-30-2008, 09:49 PM

I dont have shife paddle so how do I pedal all the way down to get '' kickdown'' mode?

jeremyc74 · 10-30-2008, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by newbmwfans

I dont have shife paddle so how do I pedal all the way down to get '' kickdown'' mode?

Just push the pedal all the way to the floor.

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