Car Always Starts In Second Gear From Stop?
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Discussed to death on another forum I inhabit, but the general consensus is that it starts in 2nd gear no matter what mode you are in unless you manually downshift to 1st gear using either the left paddle, or the gear stick if in S mode, OR you hit the go pedal hard enough on take off to hit the kickdown switch, in which case it kicks back to 1st gear.
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What I'm saying is that it should go to first, but it doesn't. That was in response to the previous post about how automatics always start in second. In manual mode, they should go to 1st. I think even my X5 goes to 1st in sport and manual mode.
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Have you actually run off a light in first? It's worthless unless you can feather it for an extra 1/10th (guessing) or to bang the rev limiter through the intersection. My tires want to spin in 2nd without being aggressive. I can't imagine all the complaints if she started in 1st.
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Have you actually run off a light in first? It's worthless unless you can feather it for an extra 1/10th (guessing) or to bang the rev limiter through the intersection. My tires want to spin in 2nd without being aggressive. I can't imagine all the complaints if she started in 1st.
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DPelletier (04-10-2017)
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It will only pull away in 2nd if I have been using the flappy paddles and haven't changed down manually.
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Have you actually run off a light in first? It's worthless unless you can feather it for an extra 1/10th (guessing) or to bang the rev limiter through the intersection. My tires want to spin in 2nd without being aggressive. I can't imagine all the complaints if she started in 1st.