I decided to give the auto mode in my 545 and was a little disappointed. It seemed to shift like a drunk fish! The timing was terrible and had me in 4 at 40 mph. Good thing I love the manual mode.

 

its 10x better if you put it in sport mode then drive in auto....but yea...the software they have executing the shifts sucks...my friend has that trans in an 04....she went to the stealership and had them update the software...the shift patterns got a lot better...

 

It isnt bad... I have an 04 SMG, but I prefer to drive in Manuel mode... fyi I spend $3200 replacing the pump/cluth few month back SMG---> SMH lol

 

Might have to do that soon. Trying software update first. It will drop past 1 into N when slowing down or drop on acceleration into neutral

 

have any of u think about tuning the smg? a bunch of the e46 m3 guys have done it. i know all the hpf e46s with smg have done it to accommodate for the slow shift times

 

Install the Quaife and it'll change gear faster! (2x)

 

you don't have to spend 3K, it can be done under 1500... take it to some good indy shop. The pump cost less then $400.

 

Nice to hear. My indy guy is a BMW certified master that left the stealer to start his own shop.

 

yeah from my experience NEVER take the car to the dealer if you need your clutch replaced. They tried to convince me to change the rest of the SMG parts because supposedly they were failing one by one, until i decided to remove the car from there and take it to an indy shop(motorcepts) and all i needed was a new clutch and flywheel.. payed around $2500 for it

 

Can you give me a little more info about Quaife? Which Quaife part am I looking for / is it a new SMG computer tune? And will it 'smooth' the shifts like a dinan flywheel, or just make shifts faster?