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Originally Posted by bcredliner
The greater the mass the more inertia it takes to get it to move. If a 2500 lb. vehicle will move with 100 lbs of force then a 5000lb vehicle will take 200 lbs of force to move it. Also, a transmission has gears it is not like a rope.
Synchros most often fail because clutch is out of adjustment. If you are still hearing the grinding I would adjust the clutch sooner than later. If it is only in one gear it is time to change that one out before you have much more expensive damage. I would think that at 46mph I would think you would want to gear down to second.
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X5 gearing is a little different than you would expect.
Compared to a more typical manual gear spacing, it's kind of like:
0.75
1.5
2
3
4
5
People complain about it, and it requires a little bit of shift cadence adjustment, but once you get used to it, you end up with a vehicle that moves in a way that you have no right to expect out of such a dinky motor. And that's setting aside what Happy has done.
Edit: Amusingly, 1/2/3 in the X5 are very similar to what I'm running in the E30 M3 if I had the rev limiter set at 6,500. With the rev limiter set to 8,900, though, it's a slightly different experience.