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My Ride: DMS 535d. Titanium Silver on Black leather. M- Sport Package.
Can any one tell me the main differance between the D and DS mode in performance terms. Does the cars accelarate faster in the DSport mode???
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KYRIACOS: DS will wait longer, i.e. higher rev points, to up-shift than D. DS uses a more "aggressive" or sporty shifting algorithm than D does. Hope that helps (HTH in internet speak!). Also, to get to the semi-manual mode, where you can shift yourself, you need to be in DS mode first.
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Originally Posted by sj3' date='Jul 20 2004, 02:20 PM
Also, to get to the semi-manual mode, where you can shift yourself, you need to be in DS mode first.
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How do you get from manual back to DS mode ?
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Originally Posted by 530dse' date='Jul 20 2004, 07:31 PM
What i meant was can you return to sport mode without going back into D first.
But it only takes half a second...
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can't absolutely confirm, but the other day I was cruising down the interstate and saw that I was going to need to punch it to jump into another lane, so I moved from D to DS and the car dropped from 6th to 5th gear before I hit the gas pedal. It definitely uses the higher RPM, now whether it would eventually shift to 6th if I was cruising at a high enough speed, I don't know, but just doing 65 mph or so, holding the gas pedal steady, it moved down in gear and stayed there until I got up to speed and moved back to D, then it shifted back to 6th gear.
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doesn't shift to 6th in DSauto; can be shifted to 6th is DSmanual
and DSmanual will eventually shift even if you don't - it's clever enough to work towards a non-blownup engine policy
and DSmanual will eventually shift even if you don't - it's clever enough to work towards a non-blownup engine policy