brain fart; drove 80 freeway miles in DS mode
11-28-2005, 05:26 PM
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My 530i , 2005 would not go into 6th in DS. I can tell in an instant what gear my cars are in with a tach and speedo, I'm that much in tune with things, I really wouldn't even need a tach, just my ears and seat of my pants, even though the I6's are so smooth.
Every time I went from D to DS, the revs jump and It went from 6th to 5th. It annoyed me, because you couldn't shift to M6 quick enough to avoid the 6-5-6 routine. I didn't want to tryafter a while for fear of hurting the trans with a shift-while-already-shifting type deal.
So I rarely used DS, either D or M.
Same way on my 645, DS is gears 1-5 only, at least up to 120mph it is
, that's the fastest I've gone in DS mode.
Every time I went from D to DS, the revs jump and It went from 6th to 5th. It annoyed me, because you couldn't shift to M6 quick enough to avoid the 6-5-6 routine. I didn't want to tryafter a while for fear of hurting the trans with a shift-while-already-shifting type deal.
So I rarely used DS, either D or M.
Same way on my 645, DS is gears 1-5 only, at least up to 120mph it is
, that's the fastest I've gone in DS mode.
11-28-2005, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by TB CD' post='204515' date='Nov 28 2005, 09:26 PM
My 530i , 2005 would not go into 6th in DS. I can tell in an instant what gear my cars are in with a tach and speedo, I'm that much in tune with things, I really wouldn't even need a tach, just my ears and seat of my pants, even though the I6's are so smooth.
Every time I went from D to DS, the revs jump and It went from 6th to 5th. It annoyed me, because you couldn't shift to M6 quick enough to avoid the 6-5-6 routine. I didn't want to tryafter a while for fear of hurting the trans with a shift-while-already-shifting type deal.
So I rarely used DS, either D or M.
Same way on my 645, DS is gears 1-5 only, at least up to 120mph it is, that's the fastest I've gone in DS mode.
Every time I went from D to DS, the revs jump and It went from 6th to 5th. It annoyed me, because you couldn't shift to M6 quick enough to avoid the 6-5-6 routine. I didn't want to tryafter a while for fear of hurting the trans with a shift-while-already-shifting type deal.
So I rarely used DS, either D or M.
Same way on my 645, DS is gears 1-5 only, at least up to 120mph it is
, that's the fastest I've gone in DS mode.
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