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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Most of us don't suffer from "this problem".
I drive mine year round, in Canada, at sub zero temperatures and have never had a single grind (that wasn't my own fault).
Are you blipping on the double clutched up shifts?
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Absolutely. Whatever it takes, I get that RPM to the exact right spot with the clutch out before I depress it a second time and select the gear. The only time I've had this grind on me was with the broken 4th gear in my old transmission. That gear was so screwed up that I could only get it right about 90% of the time. I'm sure maybe my foot has slipped a small handful of times in my life as well, but it has been very rare. If you were just a hair too high or too low it would grind anyway. So I think I did alright considering that. I usually can barely feel it going into gear I get it so close. This is especially true on the bimmer. holy god that car has a smooth trans.
I always blip the right amount, and then usually after I get the gear selected I'll blip a second time to get it back for releasing the clutch (if it's necessary, hard to explain I do it by feel sound and intuition mostly, you know how it is). If I happen to be braking and need to down shift, I will do a full heel-toe blip, but I'm not a very agressive driver, and very rarely need to do that on the street. I never never never downshift without matching the RPM on the primary and then let the clutch jerk the car to slow down, hate it when people do that.