pukka

^^^ True - forgot about bad weather conditions.

norsecarnut

just one of many interesting days in Seattle this past winter. Had the winter wheels swapped out for the summer set and then it dumped again and I got to find out just how much better the snow tires were.

Fleainat

I agree that it's a great feature that none of my previous manuals had. I have found that it's basically intended for changing from 5-6 on a freeway or 4-5 on a street in order to save gas once you're not on an incline that requires lower gears.

thomassteen

Ok - I am 99% sure mine disengages the CC when "dapping" the clutch pedal. I am currently on vacation away from my car, but when I return I will verify to be sure.

Anybody knows which module controls CC? I want to start looking for coding options...

ADD

My transmission will intially NOT disengage upon pressing in the clutch.

On the first few occasions, when I was learning the features of the car, when I would press and hold in the clutch, the revs would almost redline and THEN cruise would be disengaged. It is a bit startling when you aren't expecting it.

I've tried once or twice to downshift while on cruise, (like to pass), and it does NOT disengage.

So it would appear that the cruise is linked to the rev limiter and not the actual clutch movement.

Nevertheless, I only set cruise when I am on a long trip on a major highway, or actively trying to maintain speed on a patrolled road. If I need to slow down or speed up while on cruise I use the stalk in 1 or 5 mph increments, or the brakes, obviously, when needed. I disengage via the stalk when I want to get out of cruise completely.

norsecarnut

that sounds familiar, i think mine revved up too. I'm on a big trip in a different vehicle but I'll check on this when I get back.

jm545i

Do whatever you want - I really don't care, but there's no additional wear on your transmission if you leave it engaged on coast down, and you're acting to lessen wear on your brake pads and sparing your clutch from wear upon re-engaging if you want to re-accelerate from anything other than a stop, so I really don't see any advantage.

It's quite obvious that BMW didn't design its cruise control feature to encourage neutral or clutch-in coast downs (to do what the OP is doing). They designed it assuming that the driver would manually disengage CC via the brake pedal or the stalk. That's not a defect or a problem, it's a design choice, and my opinion they made the right one... please don't complain about this so that they change it on future models, because I like it!

BSLNoel

I really like it for that reason and I wasn't complaining as much as just commenting on the uniqueness of the feature. Never seen it before on a stick shifter.

I started the thread to see if it was a setting somewhere, whether through iDrive or coding.


The cruise works amazingly well and honestly I wouldn't change it to disengage with clutch initiation even if I could.

higher

Mine is the same, depressing the clutch in my manual E61 while on cruise, does 'not' disengage cruise. My car is a European model (UK). It's probably a software coding thing - maybe and older version of the software (my car is 2008).

Campfamily

The way my car works, and the way I'm pretty sure it's supposed to work after reading my manual, is that the cruise does not initially disengage when you push in the clutch. This allows you to set the cruise in one gear, then shift into another gear (either higher or lower) without having to reset the cruise. But, if you hold the clutch in for more than a few seconds (believe it is six seconds), the car chimes at you, and then disengages the cruise. Kind of a neat feature, if you ask me.

Keith