Hard Cold Shifts 6HP 26Z 04 4.4

[Fatcat]

I've been experiencing hard shifts especially when the car is cold. This isn't anything new to me but I just wanted to see if anyone has a better way to deal with this small problem.

I know it's inevitable not to have transmission problems, especially with an aging BMW with over 130k miles but how do you guys deal with this? I usually drive slow until my transmission warms up.

I know you can reset your transmission by holding your pedal past kickdown in switch 2 but how much of a difference does this make? also, would this reset be better with a warm or cold transmission or does it not make a difference?

I can deal with cold delayed and hard shifts but what really concerns me is when I slow down at a stop sign and drive forward and my transmission just takes a huge fucking dump feeling like a semi truck rear ended me. it's much worse uphill since there's more stress on the transmission so I avoid this by using manual mode.

The only two fixes I can think of are doing the kickdown transmission reset or buying SP-DATENS, or just dealing with it.