E60 M5 - sluggish gear changes?
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I've had my M5 for a couple of months now, and I've noticed a little annoyance with the SMG 'box that I'm not sure about, don't know if they're supposed to do this or not.
There's a particular roundabout that I have to cross on my commute into work in the morning. I always have to stop at the line due to the traffic, and when I do the SMG box switches into 1 or 2 which is fine.
When I pull away from the roundabout, regardless of whether I'm in 400 or 500bhp mode, I'll pull on to the roundabout and the car will then decide to change up a gear, but it's so sluggish at doing it that I'll essentially be left coasting on to the roundabout while it changes up, and a few times it's caused a couple of close calls where the engine's slowed me down while it works out what to do!
Is that normal?
The throttle response can also be incredibly slow sometimes. In M-mode, it's perfect, but I don't particularly want to drive around in M-mode all the time
There's a particular roundabout that I have to cross on my commute into work in the morning. I always have to stop at the line due to the traffic, and when I do the SMG box switches into 1 or 2 which is fine.
When I pull away from the roundabout, regardless of whether I'm in 400 or 500bhp mode, I'll pull on to the roundabout and the car will then decide to change up a gear, but it's so sluggish at doing it that I'll essentially be left coasting on to the roundabout while it changes up, and a few times it's caused a couple of close calls where the engine's slowed me down while it works out what to do!
Is that normal?
The throttle response can also be incredibly slow sometimes. In M-mode, it's perfect, but I don't particularly want to drive around in M-mode all the time
try playing with the gearchange settings... I run mine in gearchange setting 5 all the time as its only supper aggressive at high revs anyhow.
also remember that the car remembers how you drive, if you never put the car in first and pull away it can be sluggish... i make a point of holding gears when changing up and changing down early so the car doesnt do anything strange or unexpected on me and touch wood its always well behaved
also remember that the car remembers how you drive, if you never put the car in first and pull away it can be sluggish... i make a point of holding gears when changing up and changing down early so the car doesnt do anything strange or unexpected on me and touch wood its always well behaved
andygtt said:
try playing with the gearchange settings... I run mine in gearchange setting 5 all the time as its only supper aggressive at high revs anyhow.
also remember that the car remembers how you drive, if you never put the car in first and pull away it can be sluggish... i make a point of holding gears when changing up and changing down early so the car doesnt do anything strange or unexpected on me and touch wood its always well behaved
what he said...also remember that the car remembers how you drive, if you never put the car in first and pull away it can be sluggish... i make a point of holding gears when changing up and changing down early so the car doesnt do anything strange or unexpected on me and touch wood its always well behaved
The gear changes get quicker the further up the rev range you go. If you're changing up or down at 1500 revs then it'll seem pretty sluggish, especially if you're off throttle. But if you change gear higher up, say around 3krpm it'll be much quicker. Always drive in S5. Failing that check your battery as it powers the SMG pump.
Eddie
Eddie
May I ask what sort of fuel consumption you are getting?
I was seriously thinking about an E60 M5 before buying my E93 335i, so would like the opportunity to feel smug.
I was seriously thinking about an E60 M5 before buying my E93 335i, so would like the opportunity to feel smug.
gazchap said:
Cheers for the advice guys, started using the paddle shifter as a matter of course now and it does seem better, although it's probably not going to do the (already ridiculous) fuel consumption any favours
gazchap said:
Generally I'm only doing short journeys, which isn't helping - average is around 12-13mpg. The stupidly small fuel tank doesn't help matters.
worth mentioning that letting the engine rev will give you better mpg hence the auto mode wont give you as good as you will acheive in flappy mode... i rev the engine to 3.5-4k before changing in normal road use and average 19mpg... in fact last few tanks have seen me do 21+mpg even with some spirited blats to the rev limiter.and no i dont drive like a gran lol
CarbonM5 said:
Try the smg reset driving at 40 knock into neutral and pull both paddles back for a couple of seconds.
6 seconds, car must stay above 40mph for duration and it needs to be a straight road. I do mine on the motorway. This doesn't calibrate the gearbox though, only resets the diff to recognise tyre radius.
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