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      03-26-2016, 10:43 AM   #1
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Rev matching and first gear

Our LCI 118i rev matches the down shifts by itself. But for some reason, it does not do this for first gear. Is this normal, and why does it work like that?
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Lol don't downshift to first gear. I've never seen someone do it and I would never myself personally.
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Lol don't downshift to first gear. I've never seen someone do it and I would never myself personally.
So once you shift out of first gear when the car is new, you never go back? :-)

I regularly downshift to first gear, but I guess I will have to rev match it myself, like I have done the last 25 years or so. I sometimes double declutch it as well, to make it smoother. You can feel it in the shifter that it really makes a difference when going to first.
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Lol don't downshift to first gear. I've never seen someone do it and I would never myself personally.
So once you shift out of first gear when the car is new, you never go back? :-)

I regularly downshift to first gear, but I guess I will have to rev match it myself, like I have done the last 25 years or so. I sometimes double declutch it as well, to make it smoother. You can feel it in the shifter that it really makes a difference when going to first.
Lol I go back to first. Every time I come to a complete stop and start off again. I just don't see why anyone would throw it in first gear while moving to go forward or even to slow down. To much pressure on everything. People blow their motors accidentally putting it in first gear on the move (money shift)
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      03-27-2016, 10:47 PM   #5
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The car should auto shift from 2nd to 1st when you come to a stop even if you have it in manual mode.
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My manual gearbox is not likely to auto shift to first gear! :-)

You can of course over rev the engine by going to first gear at more than 50 km/h or so, but as long as you keep track of how fast you are going, that will not happen.
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After a track day today, I found out that the car is not rev matching at all with DSC Off.

And the new LCI 118i is a couple of seconds slower around the track then the pre facelift 116i. They have the same specs, but I suspect the N13 had a lot more power than indicated. The B38 is probably performing according to the specs.

The wide M-Sport runflats are slower than the tyres I was running before, and the heavy M-Sport brakes are also not helping when you want a quick lap.
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The above sounds quite right. I too am disappointed with performance.
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