Curious to know the habits of my fellow E55ers.

Some questions:

What transmission setting do you drive in most often?

What suspension setting do you use most often?

How often do you change these settings?

As for me, I find myself enjyoing 'C' more and more for the transmisison. Oddly, the car feels faster when it shifts earlier. I know that this must be misperception, but the huge torque seems to push the car faster when it has something to pull against. Winding it up might actually be faster but the silent shove of the torque in higher gear somehow seems more enjoyable. Anyone compared 0-60 times, or 1/4 times in the various transmission modes?

And I hate to admit it, but I use the 'boat-mode' more and more often. As soon as I hit the freeway, I often switch to comfort mode. Likewise, when I'm boulevard cruising, or snaking up the impossibly pot holed, one and a half lane, crazily twisty 15 mph road that leads up the hill to my house, she goes to the softest setting. Not that I don't use sport2 often, when I'm driving through twisties, etc. But at low speeds or straight freeway runs, the softer the better.

Though I end up changing these settings WAY too often I switch both settings as least every ten to fifteen minutes. Entertaining to feel the difference...

Curious for your patterns,

Skeeter

 

I have been leaving the trans in S and the ride in S1...but I play around with it quite a bit too...

 

Trans: C (still in break-in period...can't wait to fully enjoy S or M modes)
Suspension: Mostly S1 with little mix of "boat-mode" (rarely use S2)

 

S mode
Sport II Suspension (Stiffer than Lexington Steele )

Occasional M mode to excercise the fingers.

 

This should have been in Poll form...

SC
S1
S2
CC
C1
C2
MC
M1
M2

Because there's no way you're going to really figure out anything by just reading all the comments.

I'm in S all the time, switching between Comfort and Sport II...



Loren

 

Transmission: S unless I'm in stop and go, then C. I also use C for winter drivining. Never seen the point of M. Even at the AMG challenge we used S.

Suspension: Usually S1. S2 for freeway off ramps. Comfort for bad roads/construction.

 

SII - everyday driving (mostly highway cruising)
CII - stoplight drag

 

Always in S plus Sport 2.

If I want to have a lil fun then it's M and Sport 2...

 

S mode & SPORT II is the ONLY way to FLY!!!

 

This car has a tranny mode outside of S?

And suspension mode other than Sport 2?

Wow, who would have known?!?

Anyway, I'm probably completely whacked. Although I leave it in this mode all the time, I probably wouldn't even notice if someone switched if from sport 2 to comfort...

 

Comfort mode on both almost all the time if I want to play I usually use M mode but I don't change the susp settings very often almost never.

 

Difference between C and SII is noticeable in my car. Always use SII unless the road is rough, with trans in S 99% of the time. Don't see the need for C, and M is still too slow to shift to be much fun.

 

mix betweeen C and S....suspension is usually sport 2

 

S and sport II

 

S and mix of C and S2.

i do not understand why ANYONE would use tiptronic on a car like this.
back in mid-late 90's when tiptronic 1st came out, ok i understand, it was fresh and it feels cool to change gear with buttoms on wheel.
now days with true F1 system all over the place, why bother with the silly manual mode on a true automatic car? just leave in D and let the tranny do the shifting.

 

S and Sport II, almost always ...