Thanks to all for this information. I'm going to print out this thread and bring it to my service advisor. I sure hope that it fixes our problem! I'm a little concerned that this will not be the answer to our prayers, however. I have not noticed situations 2-5. Situation 1 surely could describe our problem (Jolts and jerks when pulling away during a 1-2 upshift.). Actually, now that I typed this I'm not sure that this is our problem. I don't think that my problem is in shifting from 1 to 2 but simply controlling the throttle at the start in 1st. A light touch on the accelerator intermittently yields a "jack rabbit" start.

I now suspect that the dealer may have been trying to resolve the problem with this course of action when our problem may be unrelated.

Anyway, thanks for this information.

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2007 X5 4.8