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DavidEvo
Member Since: 01 Sep 2007
Location: Chilterns
Posts: 12
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| Auto Gear box - how does it shift? |
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Okay, so bit of a daft question, with the D3/RRS auto boxes in their manual setting, how do the shifts work.
Is it like a sequential “race†gearbox – pull towards to upshift, push away to downshift?
Or is it the other way around?
Thanks, inane question I know, but still 
David
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 6th Jul 2010 11:29 pm |
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Stu
Member Since: 08 Feb 2009
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 2423
 
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Forwards to up shift, backwards to down shift.  D3 HSE MY05 Auto
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| 6th Jul 2010 11:32 pm |
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DavidEvo
Member Since: 01 Sep 2007
Location: Chilterns
Posts: 12
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Cheers still... don't get why so many auto/tiptronic things are configured this way, am I the only one who finds this massively counterintuitive?
David
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| 7th Jul 2010 12:00 am |
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mik
Member Since: 08 Feb 2010
Location: Skoatland
Posts: 912
  
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I'm happy to accept either convention (based on manual shifting, which uses both fore and aft movements to shift up (or down)).... I just wish they'd all standardise.
Aren't most (all?) sequential boxes "pull back = shift up"
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| 7th Jul 2010 8:41 am |
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al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10336
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I have the same issue, mainly in the 5th/6th range, as on my old D3 manual, I'd move the stick forward to change down to 5th, but on the command shift I pull back - catches me out loads of time.
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| 7th Jul 2010 9:55 am |
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RichardB
Member Since: 04 May 2010
Location: Hants
Posts: 485
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DavidEvo wrote:Cheers still... don't get why so many auto/tiptronic things are configured this way, am I the only one who finds this massively counterintuitive?
David
No you aren't. Catches me out too. But it's really just a convention and you can probably argue it either way. For me, i think it comes down to the familiarity of the manual 4th to 3rd downshift (away). But then what about the 5th to 4th (towards) 
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| 7th Jul 2010 12:01 pm |
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