Quote: I realize that BMW are the automotive engineering gods but I can't believe ANYONE would like the SMG auto-shifting in non-sport mode. It isn't at all comfortable or smooth. It is very herky-jerky....putz. Maybe it was just my SMG acting this way but it was pretty bad....
 | I remember you bitching about that while we were tooling all over Germany last month. My experience is diff. I found it very smooth on the shifts. Way smoother than my Z4 3.0 SMG. Maybe its because I've trained myself to ease up on the gas (ala stick) when anticipating a SMG shift. |
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Quote: | I remember you bitching about that while we were tooling all over Germany last month. My experience is diff. I found it very smooth on the shifts. Way smoother than my Z4 3.0 SMG. Maybe its because I've trained myself to ease up on the gas (ala stick) when anticipating a SMG shift. | I dunno...Bill thought is was pretty horrible, too. Maybe my tranny s/w is screwed or needs reimaged?? 
All I can say is on my car, the SMG in auto mode, non-sport, was awful and that sport button was the first thing I would hit upon restarting the car.
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Quote: I dunno...Bill thought is was pretty horrible, too. Maybe my tranny s/w is screwed or needs reimaged??
All I can say is on my car, the SMG in auto mode, non-sport, was awful and that sport button was the first thing I would hit upon restarting the car. | The SMG "automatic" was like a normal automatic low on fluid, seemingly not shifting at the right point. It did not seem broken in any way, just suboptimized. The sport mode made it much better.
While it could certainly be better than previous incarnations of the software, it wasn't great.
That said, I would get SMG in a heartbeat and my non-manual-driving wife would use the auto mode.
Bill
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Quote: The SMG "automatic" was like a normal automatic low on fluid, seemingly not shifting at the right point. It did not seem broken in any way, just suboptimized. The sport mode made it much better.
While it could certainly be better than previous incarnations of the software, it wasn't great.
That said, I would get SMG in a heartbeat and my non-manual-driving wife would use the auto mode.
Bill | That's the way auto mode in the M3 smg felt as well. I only used it if I got a phone call or something...otherwise it was manual mode the whole time.
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Quote: The SMG "automatic" was like a normal automatic low on fluid, seemingly not shifting at the right point. It did not seem broken in any way, just suboptimized. The sport mode made it much better.
While it could certainly be better than previous incarnations of the software, it wasn't great.
That said, I would get SMG in a heartbeat and my non-manual-driving wife would use the auto mode.
Bill | Is auto in sport mode pretty much comparable to a regular auto then?
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Quote: The SMG "automatic" was like a normal automatic low on fluid, seemingly not shifting at the right point. It did not seem broken in any way, just suboptimized. The sport mode made it much better.
While it could certainly be better than previous incarnations of the software, it wasn't great.
That said, I would get SMG in a heartbeat and my non-manual-driving wife would use the auto mode.
Bill |
How does your wife like the auto mode? I'm thinking of ordering an '05 M3 for my wife and she is a non-manual driver. I want to make sure that this would be functional and easily learned for her.
Thanks
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