C, S, or M?

[Ari]

Which gearbox modes do you use?

For me, S is too 'revvy' so I'm 95% in 'C' mode, with occasional use of the paddles in 'M' when I'm in the mood.

Just wondered what everyone else uses?

[ecain63]

C mode, unless traffic is crap and then i use S. M in the 7-GTronic is too delayed for me.

[chiefski26]

M provides the fastest gearchange of all the modes.

[ecain63]

Its the delay between pulling the paddle and it actually changing that annoys, not the speed of change itself. If the C63 had the M5s SMGIII box i'd be a happy man.

[Ari]

Does it actually change gear faster? I assumed the gearchange speed was the same in all modes, just when it changed gear varied.

[ecain63]

No, S and M modes are quicker than C. Its not that obvious but its there.

[jackwood]

M 90% of the time. Just prefer to change and hold gear as and when I want, not when the software thinks I want.

[Ari]

ecain63 said:

No, S and M modes are quicker than C. Its not that obvious but its there.

I'll look out for that.

[Peppermint]

jackwood said:

M 90% of the time. Just prefer to change and hold gear as and when I want, not when the software thinks I want.

M always once warm for same reason as Jackwood...

[ascayman]

C - when crusing or in traffic. 50%

S - rarely 5%

S+ - when going for a hoon 25%

M - when i want to feel like a racing driver 20%

[02joe]

M 90% of the time. I use C when I am in heavy traffic to take advantage of Stop/Start

[Odie]

When your in C or S what the deal with using the paddles, say if I was going for an overtake, I can pop it down a gear with the paddle and will it just take over again if I don't change up?

[ghibbett]

If you manually select a gear whilst in C, S or S+ then it holds that gear till either a downchange is required or till it changes up at the limiter. Alternatively if you upshift to seventh, then it goes back to drive. A quicker way of doing this is to hold the RH paddle which'll put it straight back to D.

[Ari]

Not in my car. If I pull the down paddle in eitther auto program it will shift down one gear and then use that as the highest gear. So if in 6 and I click down it will drop to fifth and then carry on being auto with 5 as the top gear.

If I pull + in auto then it will stay in auto but shift up a gear.

If I hold + it goes back to D.

[Ari]

Actually, rereading your post that may be what you meant...

[gizlaroc]

Depends on the model.

On some cars the S is sport and hold onto the revs longer.

On other models S is standard and simply uses first gear where as C is comfort and pulls away in 2nd, that is the only difference.

[Bradders901]

M for me at all times unless I am commuting in a traffic jam or taking the kids to school then it is C.

For pressing on I use M as I really do not like the full auto modes - only upside for me on S+ is that I keep hitting the rev limiter at the moment in M mode as I get used to the gearbox. It's a combination of slow gear change - i.e you pull lever takes a couple of seconds to change compared to m3 DCT and the car just pulls all the way to the limiter.

[Argybargy]

C to warm up ( there can be some uncomfortable 'whump' from the gearbox when using M from cold) and then just M. Don't really like autos (and really dislike kick down) but the AMG manual setting gives a decent amount of control.

[marky1]

For though using M when they say they are "pressing on". Do you not find S+ much much quicker for downshifts than M? I.e in M going from 6th to 4th takes ages as you have to go through 5th but in S+ it seems to drop directly from 6th to 4th (although I'm sure it very briefly goes through 5th)

[ascayman]

marky1 said:

For though using M when they say they are "pressing on". Do you not find S+ much much quicker for downshifts than M? I.e in M going from 6th to 4th takes ages as you have to go through 5th

If you hold down the paddle you'll skip 5th.