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Was driving in Germany last weekend (finally vmaxed the X ), and was doing some mountain driving as well.

What was really annoying though was the gear box behaviour when going down a mountain, if slightly braking when going downhill, it decides to change gear back and go to about 4500 revs or so. I tried accelerating, braking etc but it would not move up to the next gear until it was ready to do so at its own accord.

Is there a trick to get it to change the gear up again?

I've had two x5 now and both have done the same been back to the dealer and they say it's normal so sorry I've not been much help but I just put it into manual mode change then back into auto

Mine does the same......sometimes drops down 2 gears........great to have engine breaking......not so nice having the engine screaming its way down a hill

Have tried to give it a little throttle and it changes back up but then you have to brake and the whole process starts again

in mine when this happens, i just blip the throttle and it usually changes up again.
i think someone posted on the old forum that if you switch off the traction control, the auto downshift is disabled..

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i think someone posted on the old forum that if you switch off the traction control, the auto downshift is disabled..[/quote]

I'll give that a go and see what happens.
I have also tried to ease this issue and have recently found that really gentle breaking just before the point you feel the car would try a down change and it doesn't bother and you can have a smoother ride. I do think the X changes to eagerly. I too dislike the high rev over engine braked down hill scream, not befitting of such a marque...



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Did that work? This annoys me too and the only way I've found to counter it is going in to M down hills.

stick it in m and bang it up a cog if it annoys.