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Convienent and intuitive.... Posted by Mike Lynch [Email]  (#81) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Mike Lynch) on Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:02:46
In Reply to: Anyone love the sentronic like I do?, Gary, Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:11:43 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
In everyday use it's nice not worrying about going past D into 3-2-1 as in a VW Tiptronic. It's also easy to find reverse. I also prefer the manual gate to the left instead of the right as with VW Tiptronic. I find the 9-5 paddles to be too inconvienent. Fist you have to select M, carfully you can't just slap it, and then paddle. Gettin' back out means selecting D again, carefully, and SPORT, too much hassle for a quick downshift, but with the 9-3SS it's slap and shift almost in one motion.
The BMW Steptronics have a neat wrinkle. Slapping the shifter over to the manual gate puts the tranny in SPORT and then if you slap it it shifts manually. BMW also has the reverse logic slap forward to dowhshift, pull back to upshift, 2003 and up that is.
Another nice feature of the 9-3SS Sentronic is that it will not automatically upshift at redline. I had that problem with the 9-5s at the Aero Academy, the 9-5 would pop into 3rd on the autocross. The 9-3SS will not upshift for redline, just engine managment intercedes to prevent more revs.
Sure there's a delay, more pronounced in the lower gears for me, but it works darn good and avoids all whole class, some of them potentially dangerous, of shifting errors at warp speed.
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