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Originally Posted by darge82
Educate buyers about what? How to drive a stick shift vehicle? This is not a BMW problem. This is a DRIVER ERROR problem. Plain and simple. This has nothing to do with being aware of what can happen. It can happen on a Honda Civic.
Go take ANY vehicle with a stick shift transmission and an INTERFERENCE engine. Go wide open in 3rd gear to redline, when you hit redline, shift it into 2nd and let go of the clutch. Proceed to reply to this thread with what parts you picked up off of the ground.
This has NOTHING to do with BMW engineering. This has nothing to do with a software glitch. This has nothing to do with Rev Matching. This single handedly has everything to do with driver error and people not knowing how to drive. Case closed.
I am a tech for BMW. We get cars in ALL the time for money shifts. Not just M cars, but anything, cars that have way less power and no rev match feature. 328s, 528s, S85 M5s, we have seen it. I have seen it on other Manufacturer lines as well. Its not just BMW specific.
Its specific to a small breed of people that should not be driving a stick shift.
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I am not trying to blame BMW or others. It's just weird seeing so many money shifts lately and sad for those who perhaps didn't have anyone telling them about it before they've done it. Here a lot of people are highly knowledgeable and experienced with performance cars, but there are a lot of ordinary drivers or a little more who's learning (like me). If I had come directly from my old '01 Civic 5mt that never was revved above 3k, I would have gloriously done it after a short time of beginning to enjoy higher rpm.