After a week and 3 tanks of gas, I am enjoying getting to know my e55. Its been a wonderful learning process, and I love everything about this car. There is however, one thing that I can't nail down. I am having trouble keeping the nose down and throttling up at the same time deep into turns.
Tried heel-toeing, and the pedals don't seem to be well fit for that...there's more travel in the brake pedal than I am accustom to.
Tried braking with the left foot, but and its not bad if I am shifting. Leaving it in D and using the left foot to brake is bad juju for me. It seems to be random in its choice of which gear it wants to come out in.
So how do you guys do it? I am used to heel-toeing when I drive a stick, and the only other automatic I have driven is my 850R wagon (fwd.)
TIA.
note - AMG forum searched on "heel toe" "trail braking" "cornering"
Was browsing the Battle of the Best, a M5 v E55 v XJR comparison by Car and Driver in March 2000. Found this exerpt and am posting it just in case anyone else does a search on this issue.
"Our only real complaint during flat-out running had to do with the Mercedes-Benz stability- and traction-control systems. Even when you turn them off, they won't stay off. If you apply the brakes during a hard corner, the systems assume that you are desperately fighting for control and engage one or more of the brake calipers with a mighty jolt. As a result, the seamless trail-braking that we were all taught at Bob Bondurant's driving school is impossible to execute smoothly."
Glad to see that I am not the only Bondurant alum that had this prob. If Csaba Csere can't trail brake the beast, I can stop frustrating myself.
Unless of course any of you know how to turn off the traction control on a more long-term basis....March 26 will be my first Track Day.
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