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Old 12-06-2006, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by jobaker4
NextGen - Do you notice, does your X still downshift and rev the engine pretty high as you decelerate downhill? My 4.8 does this bad whereas my 3.0 never did it. Is this just a function of the "Sporty" programming of the 4.8? It's just horrible, sometimes my rpms will rev up to 4,000 or higher and I'm just going downhill... SO aggrivating!
That's deliberate, and part of the 'economy' settings used by BMW. It senses that you have no or little throttle and maybe have used the brakes, so it changes down a gear or two to use compression (ie engine) braking.
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