Money-shifted auto trans...?

[e30Matt]

Perhaps a , but I never thought I'd see the day.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=210845

Money shifted auto... go figure.

[rwh11385]

Dumb.

So the kick down works no matter what gear or rpms the car is currently at? Weird. I guess I'm just used to my Integra's old automatic tranny which made some intelligent decisions to what gear to choose.

Be careful Teej. Don't money-shift the automagic.

[graphik]

it shouldnt have downshifted. there has to be something wrong with his car.

[Charlie]

10-1 the dumbass was trying to manual shift it.

-Charlie

[natorious]

i can tell you from experience that it will not kick down once the rpms get up there... and 135 in the auto is not that likley in itself... its not exactly geared for it

[James Crivellone]

10-1 the dumbass was trying to manual shift it.

-Charlie

The ZF in my car will NOT allow a manual shift if the engine will overrev, it actually knows.


However in a 92ic he prolly had the electronically controller ZF, which is a tad differnt I think when it comes to how the tranny knows what the engine is doing

[skat 325is]

[nando]

something was definetly wrong with his car. If I'm doing 125 in 3rd and I tap the kick down button, it stays in 3rd!

not only that, but he seems to think that 19# injectors gave him more power

[christophbmw]

on my 85' the automatic will kick down into third at any speed. and if you have the kickdown depressed it wont shift into fourth unless you let it go. i made the same mistake in my 318i but i was only going 105. i dont think my car can go over 120 (downhill!!!!). ya it sucks.

[Ryan Stewart]

Only on bimmerforums. Well, maybe bimmerforums, DTMpower, and roadfly. :?

[AdamF 88iS]

That couldnt have happened. The tranny has a built in mecnanical mechnism that doesnt allow these downshifts to occour, this system overrides the throttle valve cable, manual control, and the kickdown swtich on electronic trannys. It's a set of spinning weights; centrifugal (sp?) style. Something was amiss inside his tranny to allow this to happen.