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My experience in the last 3 weeks has lead me to conclude My Smart 451 is the smoothest shifting manual vehicle I have ever driven.
That is my statement and it subjective and limited to the Manual transmission vehicles that I have driven. Thought they have been many and wide spread is of no relevance to this Challenge
Here is what happened. Based on some real frustrations with my Smarts transmission behavior. I had been continually having to do the throttle rest and transmission relearn. I began focusing in the relearn and reset procedures and looking at youtube video after youtube video on how to drive a manual transmission.
So many things that the videos said to do and not do seemed that I had not been doing in My Smart.
First thing I had do confirm in my mind was understand and commit to the fact that the 451 Smart Fortwo is a Manual transmission vehicle. That means every rule of driving a manual vehicle applies, so I had not been driving it correctly.
Second to understand what the computer system was doing to try to apply all the rules of driving a manual transmission. I ended up in this conversation with a friend about the transmission relearn, throttle reset causes and how to reduce the need for them:
I wrote.
(Recent continued work with and on the car have it in a really sweet spot right now.
Seems there is a fuzzy logic system that can be straightened out. It's comparable to defragmenting a computer. Where it places the files in a better order and is then able to process and access information quicker.
On the 451 the signal is processed several ways like a flow chart. If the gear shift is in automatic and you use the paddle shifters that's one process path. If the gear shift is in manual and you use the paddle shifters thats another process path. If the gear shifter is in manual and you shift with the gear shifter that is another process path. The gear shift use in manual path is the fastest process path. Could be a placebo effect but it sure feels the most in tune and where the other processes eventually get out of sync the manual shifting with the gear stick seem continuously stable.
So I am having a ball and getting ready for California canyons lol )
What is being described is putting the gear shifter in the (+/-) ie. manual position and making all up shifts with the gear shift stick.
note*** there is nothing scientific or factual about my Fuzzy logic statement just my feeling on what is happening.
Now I have been driving in manual shifting with gear shift stick exclusively for about a week when I wrote that conversation, it has been 3 weeks to this point
and My 451 has been so smooth and driving it this way has applied every manual driving rule to it and its fantastic.
Here is the Challenge .
For the next 7 days exclusively drive you car with gear shifter in manual and make all up shifts with the gear shift stick.
Let the computer make all down shifts except when down shifting to pass or to increase uphill power.
Desired effect .
Is to see if others began to experience a smoother shifting Smart manual transmission.
That is my statement and it subjective and limited to the Manual transmission vehicles that I have driven. Thought they have been many and wide spread is of no relevance to this Challenge
Here is what happened. Based on some real frustrations with my Smarts transmission behavior. I had been continually having to do the throttle rest and transmission relearn. I began focusing in the relearn and reset procedures and looking at youtube video after youtube video on how to drive a manual transmission.
So many things that the videos said to do and not do seemed that I had not been doing in My Smart.
First thing I had do confirm in my mind was understand and commit to the fact that the 451 Smart Fortwo is a Manual transmission vehicle. That means every rule of driving a manual vehicle applies, so I had not been driving it correctly.
Second to understand what the computer system was doing to try to apply all the rules of driving a manual transmission. I ended up in this conversation with a friend about the transmission relearn, throttle reset causes and how to reduce the need for them:
I wrote.
(Recent continued work with and on the car have it in a really sweet spot right now.
Seems there is a fuzzy logic system that can be straightened out. It's comparable to defragmenting a computer. Where it places the files in a better order and is then able to process and access information quicker.
On the 451 the signal is processed several ways like a flow chart. If the gear shift is in automatic and you use the paddle shifters that's one process path. If the gear shift is in manual and you use the paddle shifters thats another process path. If the gear shifter is in manual and you shift with the gear shifter that is another process path. The gear shift use in manual path is the fastest process path. Could be a placebo effect but it sure feels the most in tune and where the other processes eventually get out of sync the manual shifting with the gear stick seem continuously stable.
So I am having a ball and getting ready for California canyons lol )
What is being described is putting the gear shifter in the (+/-) ie. manual position and making all up shifts with the gear shift stick.
note*** there is nothing scientific or factual about my Fuzzy logic statement just my feeling on what is happening.
Now I have been driving in manual shifting with gear shift stick exclusively for about a week when I wrote that conversation, it has been 3 weeks to this point
and My 451 has been so smooth and driving it this way has applied every manual driving rule to it and its fantastic.
Here is the Challenge .
For the next 7 days exclusively drive you car with gear shifter in manual and make all up shifts with the gear shift stick.
Let the computer make all down shifts except when down shifting to pass or to increase uphill power.
Desired effect .
Is to see if others began to experience a smoother shifting Smart manual transmission.
