What is best way to burn rubber in a 545?
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Originally Posted by Rudy' date='Sep 19 2004, 06:15 AM
realtyman, I beg to differ...
If you press the DSC switch momentarily, the DTC light comes on and the HUD says "DTC active!" (The iDrive screen status bar says something like "DTC active! DSC limited!")
If I press and hold the button for more than four seconds, the HUD (and I think the iDrive status bar) says "DSC inactive!"
What that means is that a quick press of the DSC switch disables all of the functions of DSC except DTC so technically, DSC is only "semi-active" since DTC is a part of DSC. Once you hold the button down, the DTC is disabled which means that now every DSC component is now inactive. (Except, I think, for the component that uses AS to countersteer a pending oversteer situation.)
If you press the DSC switch momentarily, the DTC light comes on and the HUD says "DTC active!" (The iDrive screen status bar says something like "DTC active! DSC limited!")
If I press and hold the button for more than four seconds, the HUD (and I think the iDrive status bar) says "DSC inactive!"
What that means is that a quick press of the DSC switch disables all of the functions of DSC except DTC so technically, DSC is only "semi-active" since DTC is a part of DSC. Once you hold the button down, the DTC is disabled which means that now every DSC component is now inactive. (Except, I think, for the component that uses AS to countersteer a pending oversteer situation.)
That is also exactly what I was told by a BMW driving instructor when I had the driver training!
DTC is part of DSC, pressing the button once means you only have DTC now, pressing it for more than three seconds means the whole system is shut off.
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Originally Posted by alohalc' date='Sep 18 2004, 11:00 PM
[quote name='Viper786' date='Sep 18 2004, 03:28 PM'] Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly does "dumping" the clutch mean?
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Originally Posted by Viper786' date='Sep 18 2004, 07:28 PM
Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly does "dumping" the clutch mean?
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