BMW 5 E60 E61 owners manual page 54

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> Automatic upshifts and downshifts in Shiftlock the Drive mode For your safety a driving position can only > Automatic downshifts with minimum be engaged from the selector lever engine speed position N with the vehicle stationary with > Kickdown function in the Drive mode the brake pedal depressed. Driving> Acceleration assistant, refer to Observe the following when driving page 54. Start off quickly on slopes. Do not Selector-lever positions hold the vehicle on a hill by pressing the accelerator, but apply the handbrake instead. Otherwise overheating can occur in the area of the transmission.< R Reverse Select R only when the vehicle is com- pletely stopped. N Neutral: idle Engage prior to every engine start, refer The current selector-lever position is dis-also to page 50. played on the center console. R: Reverse gear Sequential mode N: Neutral, idle After every engine start, as soon as the Position for forward driving with one-touch selector lever is brought into a forward gear functions: position and the brake is pressed, the sequential mode is activated. Sequential mode The gear is changed using the shift paddles +: manual upshifts or selector lever. —: manual downshifts Driving off is also possible in second gear, D: Drive mode. e.g. when there is snow on the roadway. The SMG is operational in ignition key posi-D Drive mode tion 2. In the Drive mode, all forward gears are Idle is automatically engaged if the shifted automatically. driver's door is opened with the To switch from the sequential to Drive engine running and neither pedals, shift mode: briefly press the selector lever to the paddles nor the selector lever are oper- right towards D. ated. This is signaled by an acoustic signal and For rapid acceleration, e.g. overtaking, the flashing gear indicator. The gear dis- press the accelerator pedal as far down as play N appears in the instrument cluster. it will go – kickdown. A driving position can only be selected with Kickdown: the driver's door closed. The kickdown mode provides maximum When the vehicle is unlocked, a buzzing acceleration. sound in the area of the transmission sig- Press the accelerator pedal beyond the nals that the system is ready for opera- full-throttle resistance point. tion.< To return to the sequential mode: briefly press the selector lever back to the right 52 Online Edition for Part No. 01 41 0 157 647 - © 07/03 BMW AG

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