The tiptronic manual automatic is very strange. It will not allow you to upshift if the RPM's are too low, and it does not respond to your input fast enough. Seems like a one, or two second delay before it even shifts. Say, you are cruising at 60MPH in 5th gear, and want to downshift to the lowest available gear at the speed you are traveling. You can hold the tiptronic in the downshift position for a few seconds, and it will automatically select the best lower gear. Then if you want to get out of tiptronic fast, you can hold it in upshift position for few seconds to put back into full automatic. Another good feature is that it will automatically upshift for you in tiptronic mode if you forget to do it yourself, and hit the redline.
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The tiptronic manual automatic is very strange. It will not allow you to upshift if the RPM's are too low, and it does not respond to your input fast enough. Seems like a one, or two second delay before it even shifts. Say, you are cruising at 60MPH in 5th gear, and want to downshift to the lowest available gear at the speed you are traveling. You can hold the tiptronic in the downshift position for a few seconds, and it will automatically select the best lower gear. Then if you want to get out of tiptronic fast, you can hold it in upshift position for few seconds to put back into full automatic. Another good feature is that it will automatically upshift for you in tiptronic mode if you forget to do it yourself, and hit the redline.
it does allow you to upshift manually. just tap right. i can even do this with my sister's 00 clk320.
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I know it allows you to upshift manually. What I was saying is that it will not upshift until you have reached which is set as an acceptable RPM. Say you are in first gear, traveling 5MPH at around 1k RPM's. If you manual shift up into second gear, it shows "2" on the MFD, but will not shift until you climb up to higher RPM's.
I know it allows you to upshift manually. What I was saying is that it will not upshift until you have reached which is set as an acceptable RPM. Say you are in first gear, traveling 5MPH at around 1k RPM's. If you manual shift up into second gear, it shows "2" on the MFD, but will not shift until you climb up to higher RPM's.
I think you are misunderstanding what I've said. what I meant was you don't have to have the MFD shows "2" for it to up shift. It can show "D" and when you tap right it will up shift even if you are going 5mph and in first. I do this all the time with my own car and my sister's car.
The battery is right under the cabin air intake (near right side hood hinge), which make no sense to me, as I would think that it could induct battery gases into the cabin (???)
The triptronic (auto tranny) is interesting and takes a little getting used to. I find it useful in down shifting 1 gear when going up a steep hill. The short coming is that it then does not shift up until you tell it. A better set-up would be if it just shifted down/up 1 gear based on your command and then resumed 'normal' operation. It is useless as a manual shifting alternative - too much delay in the shifting to really give you the control of a manual tranny.
I also use triptronic when driving in snow. . . I generally run in 3rd or 4th gear in order to keep the engine revs up a bit while pushing through deep stuff. O BTW - the car is really bad in snow. You will have to learn when to de-activate the ESP and that sort of thing. I'm in my second winter season and still getting the hang of it. Even so, you'll be one of the first ones to get stuck in the snow.
Reliability of these cars is spotty, lots of little stuff goes wrong. Hopefully yours will have the bugs worked out.
Best attributes of the car are the looks and driving experience.
I think you are misunderstanding what I've said. what I meant was you don't have to have the MFD shows "2" for it to up shift. It can show "D" and when you tap right it will up shift even if you are going 5mph and in first. I do this all the time with my own car and my sister's car.
Yes, I see what you're saying now. I do that a lot myself. Lately I have just been using the amount of gas applied to have it shift where I want.
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Car is not that bad in the snow...I can pass Jeeps in my winterized w203...
Can I ask what you will be paying for the car?
I have a 6 speed.
The battery is a vented example that uses an exterior exhaust tube to remove the potential battery vapor away from the cabin and engine bay - INSURE that any replacement battery also has a vent tube!
I would think that by 30,000 miles the PO and the warranty took care of most small items...
Things I notice...
1. Car tracks to the crown of the road easy
2. Make sure your radio is coded - eve so - mine will create static or make a no CDC sign
3. People seem to bottom out the front easily
4.
Linear Mode
