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Originally Posted by 02x592
'02 X5 4.4i 136K miles.
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The manual mode is BACKWARDS
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Originally Posted by Mike V
Lol like I said, it's what you're accustomed to. If you've driven mostly Japanese cars, forward is upshift. In European cars, forward is downshift. Even sequential race transmissions are forward for downshift.
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So if you don't like it, change it. Easy to swap the two pins. BMW even sell the console label in both versions, since the early models were reversed for 2002.
See the article on this site:
http://www.xoutpost.com/articles/x5/...ientation.html
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