Any interesting things you found with your Zed for new owners?

[Russ Z4]

Pulling both paddles puts it into the gear that the auto box would choose in fully auto mode.

Pull and hold left drops it down to the lowest gear without redlining.

And then obviously left and right short pulls do down and up gears.

(Remembering that pushing the gear stick to the left puts it into full manual (although protection is still there to stop you putting it into a gear that would over rev the engine (goes without saying that if you are already in a gear and accelerate it will bounce off the limiter if you dont change up - and likewise it wont allow you to change to a gear that would stall the engine))

 

[Sgreen]

Pulling both paddles puts it into the gear that the auto box would choose in fully auto mode.

Pull and hold left drops it down to the lowest gear without redlining.

And then obviously left and right short pulls do down and up gears.

(Remembering that pushing the gear stick to the left puts it into full manual (although protection is still there to stop you putting it into a gear that would over rev the engine (goes without saying that if you are already in a gear and accelerate it will bounce off the limiter if you dont change up - and likewise it wont allow you to change to a gear that would stall the engine))

Thank for this really useful tip

 

[F1SpaceMonkey]

Pulling both paddles puts it into the gear that the auto box would choose in fully auto mode.

Pull and hold left drops it down to the lowest gear without redlining.

And then obviously left and right short pulls do down and up gears.

(Remembering that pushing the gear stick to the left puts it into full manual (although protection is still there to stop you putting it into a gear that would over rev the engine (goes without saying that if you are already in a gear and accelerate it will bounce off the limiter if you dont change up - and likewise it wont allow you to change to a gear that would stall the engine))

Not sure that's 100% true - or i have misunderstood. VW's right paddle on DSG cars had a "+" sign and and "off" written on it. Audi DSG didn't. But my last 2 BMWs were the same as VW, in that if you shifted up or down placing the gearbox in manual, holding the right paddle down put the gears back to where the auto would normal be....or "off". My Z4 M40i does this....so if shifting with the paddles and i want to go back to full auto, just press and hold the right paddle for 2-3 seconds.

 

[baljemmett]

Both work on the BMW according to the handbook - either holding the right paddle "until D appears in the instrument cluster" or pulling both of them to do it immediately. It doesn't say so explicitly but the same logic appears to apply for returning to S from full-time manual if the selector is in the M/S position rather than D. It also mentions ("with appropriate transmission variants") that a pull on the left paddle during kickdown will put it into the lowest possible gear, just like holding the left paddle will.