View Poll Results: What type of transmission do you have in your E60?
Voters: 326. You may not vote on this poll
What type of transmission do you have?
#11
Contributors
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Posts: 4,144
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Originally Posted by isbell' date='Jul 27 2004, 12:18 PM
Maybe I'll be able to go from manual to SMG one day and still feel like I'm not 70 years old, or however old you have to be to accept driving an automatic.
![Wink](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/wink.gif)
![Big Grin](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/biggrin.gif)
![Wink](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/wink.gif)
![Big Grin](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/biggrin.gif)
Peace.
![Smile](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/smile.gif)
#12
Senior Members
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Posts: 684
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My Ride: MY05 545i Jet Black with Auburn interior. SMG, Logic7, Sport Package, Comfort Seats, Navigation.
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I'd love to order the 6-speed stick, but besides the wife thing, I found that the engagement and the rowing action too rubbery on the test car that I drove. I was disappointed because that direct and firm mechanical feel was gone.
I know that BMW installed "Clutch Delay Valve?" thing to make it smoother, but many people have opted to remove it. Has anyone done this and care to share how did make the shift action better?
KSCARROL mentioned that steptronic can be manually operated a la SMG. What would be the differece performance wise between shifting the steptronic manually versus SMG?
I know that BMW installed "Clutch Delay Valve?" thing to make it smoother, but many people have opted to remove it. Has anyone done this and care to share how did make the shift action better?
KSCARROL mentioned that steptronic can be manually operated a la SMG. What would be the differece performance wise between shifting the steptronic manually versus SMG?
#13
Super Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA USA
Posts: 17,310
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
My Ride: G30 M550i
Model Year: 2018
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
isbell, that's my point. You WON'T feell like an "old man" (age is relative, right JDN?) with an SMG once you learn how to drive it. Instead, you'll feel like Andretti, Montoya, Schumaker, etc. every day!
#14
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Originally Posted by Rudy' date='Jul 27 2004, 11:33 AM
isbell, that's my point. You WON'T feell like an "old man" (age is relative, right JDN?) with an SMG once you learn how to drive it. Instead, you'll feel like Andretti, Montoya, Schumaker, etc. every day!
I did get to drive an M3. Wow, what a short throw on that baby. That took a while to get used to.
Peace.
#15
Members
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SF Bay Area, California
Posts: 52
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I wanted a manual, but there's none available here in east Bay Area at the time I was looking. I don't regret my decision to take a Steptronic. It makes my wife happier.
I plan to take a SMG for my next Bimmer though.
-khl
I plan to take a SMG for my next Bimmer though.
-khl
#16
Contributors
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: New Orleans, LA USA
Posts: 4,672
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My Ride: E90 M3
Model Year: 2011
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
great question speedracer. Rudy, JDN I have driven the SMG, I assume you guys have driven the steptronic. I would assume the manual feature on my steptronic changes the gears slower than the SMG does, but I have no experience. And as for the 70 yrs OLD wisecrack, those of us who are still taking our recent 40th birthday kind of hard are just hoping to make it to 70!
![Laughing](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/laughing.gif)
#17
Contributors
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Clearfield, Utah
Posts: 2,493
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
I plan on sticking with SMG. I love it and will not trade it for any other transmission. Forget Steptronic, I do not need to find a reason for my wife to drive. Plus you can sort of drive it like an automatic when you shift it all the way to the right. All the better it is just me. I will always drive SMG, the paddles are teriffic.
#18
Senior Members
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Posts: 684
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My Ride: MY05 545i Jet Black with Auburn interior. SMG, Logic7, Sport Package, Comfort Seats, Navigation.
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Originally Posted by kigerka' date='Jul 27 2004, 11:51 AM
I do not need to find a reason for my wife to drive.
![Big Grin](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/biggrin.gif)
#19
Contributors
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Dallas, TX USA
Posts: 4,144
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Originally Posted by kscarrol' date='Jul 27 2004, 12:39 PM
great question speedracer. Rudy, JDN I have driven the SMG, I assume you guys have driven the steptronic.
![Wink](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/wink.gif)
#20
Super Moderator
Join Date: May 2004
Location: FL
Posts: 18,253
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My Ride: F02 LCI Individual
Model Year: 2013
![Default](https://5series.net/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Originally Posted by kscarrol' date='Jul 27 2004, 07:39 PM
And as for the 70 yrs OLD wisecrack, those of us who are still taking our recent 40th birthday kind of hard are just hoping to make it to 70! ![Laughing](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/laughing.gif)
![Laughing](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/laughing.gif)
I am 21, plus 164 months... But who cares about the months...
![Laughing](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/laughing.gif)
![Laughing](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/laughing.gif)