Stick with it for a while and see if it you like it? At any rate, this will likely be new to you. You will find you are living in 2nd to 4th gears, but there is no rule you have to use the longer gears. I SUGGEST a good starting point is constantly keeping the RPMs above 3.5K. Namely, monitoring RPMs and having confidence your engine was built to sing. Not required, but I would recommend using the shifter to familiarize yourself with the manual mode. There is something very familiar and rewarding to me associated with using the shifter, not the least of which is actually 'feeling' the shifts. I personally never use the paddles and would not get PDK/DCT/ZF8 if it required using them. Plus, unlike most MT that are not a GT3 or in similar price bracket, you can safely power shift a PDK/DCT/ZF8 in manual mode. For me, I simply want control over shift points for performance/acoustic reasons noted above. I do believe having a history with MT promotes interest in manual mode. There is nothing wrong with automatic mode if that is your comfort zone. According to my wife who will occasionally join me for a spirited drive, it sounds like the engine is going 'blow up.' As I do her, I can reassure you it will not. the sound is bliss.īased on your comments, I suspect you have never developed a level of comfort with a wrung out engine. Once you heard the engine's RPMs climb and intrinsically knew it was not shifting, I suspect you let off the throttle and the jerking commenced.īefore turbo engines with gobs of low-end torque became so prevalent, finding and staying in the heart of a naturally aspirated power band with MT required learning how to 'keep the RPMs up.' Aside from optimized performance, once you learn and become comfortable with the acoustics of a wrung out engine, well, I venture few ever go back. You were 'jerking around' because you were most likely in 1st gear, which is very responsive to throttle input. I push red line pretty routinely and have had the occasion to bounce off the rev limiter one or a hundred times.ģ. Your ZF8 has a rev-limiter on it so, no, you did not bag your engine. although I am just one enthusiast and feedback will vary.Ģ. You have inquired about usage of the ZF8 manual mode and I will offer my perspective below. That stated, I am a MT fanboy turned PDK/DCT/ZF8 manual mode convert. There is nothing macho or otherwise manly about a MT or driving PDK/DCT/ZF8 in manual mode. I feel like ///AVM would do a very nice job of explaining this in good detail.ġ. Thank you for holding my hand and making my mommy proud. This is unacceptable, and something must be done. In fact, when she had friends over last night and I came upstairs from the basement to get more mountain dew, she told her friend that I was an exchange student she was looking after. My mom told me I wasn't allowed any more Tostino's pizza rolls until I let my balls drop and learn how to drive the car in sequential like Michael Schumacher. I am asking for any videos/reading materials you guys may have so I can properly enjoy this car in a safe manner. Do you think I caused any damage? I do not want to damage or wreck anything. I quickly realized wtf was happening and hit the upshift paddle twice quickly to make sure my engine didn't explode and then put the car back into D3. Yesterday, I accidently had my car in S3 instead of D3, and at one point my car starting jerking really hard (this must be what it feels like to own a Sybian). I can already hear the 6MT guys ready to beat my ass after reading "ins and outs of sequential". I typically just put everything in D3/sport+ and have fun that way, but I am ready to become an adult and learn the ins and outs of sequential. Now that my break-in service is done, I want to drive the car in high rpm ranges for more joy. I don't really know much about manual transmissions, and as a result, I don't ever put my car into sequential mode. Alrighty boys, I have a rather embarrassing question to ask.
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