Hi everybody. Welcome back. It's mark with Exotic Car Play Place. Today I'm gonna
feature a little tour of the SMG 3 transmission. Some of the little
details, idiosyncrasies, and I'm just gonna literally show you the controls,
how it all works, and stick around, watch. You're gonna love this. Okay so the first
step is to even put this into gear, you got to have your foot on the brake. You
can either put it into gear that selects DS, and it also selects the the gear in
either manual or sequential. Sequential or drive, that's what the DS means. Sequential
or drive. So you can toggle either sequential or drive, and right now I'm in
first gear. Press it again and that puts it into drive mode. So you keep toggling
DS, that's Drive and sequential. Toggle it again, you're back to manual, toggle it
again and you are back into drive mode. So this has to happen, you have to have
your foot on the brake to put it into neutral. To put it into gear and put it
in reverse, your foot has to be on the brake. Now to take it and put it back
into neutral, you can just take it, you don't actually need your foot on the
brake. So I'll try this, see it's got a lock, so
foot is not on the brake. I want to put it into gear, it's not working. I put the
foot on the brake now, it goes. Now I can take my foot off the brake, I can pull
it into neutral with the foot. Off the brake, so you can put it into gear.
You can't put it into gear without the brake, but you can put it into neutral
without the brake. So there's an interlock to save you from putting it
into gear by accident. So foot on the brake, select and you can see a drive
mode. You can select your transmission speed, still I can toggle that all the
way up or all the way down. all the way up and now I drive along and get going.
The car will start to shift by itself, based on your driving
characteristics, it'll choose where it needs to drive. And it'll up shift now if
you're a low rev like this, this is another little trick. If you stop
normally in third gear, it's not going to go too fast, too far. We're only on 2500
rpm but to engage a downshift, you put the foot right to the floor and then
it'll engage.
And then I can go manually as I just did there I was in drive and I can shift the
paddles on the fly. Even though it's in drive mode, I can override that. I can
override the drive mode by opting for the paddle shift, so the paddle shift
will then override. Now I can actually toggle that back on the fly. I'm in Drive
four again. So I'm back in drive mode. I can also
switch that to manual on the fly, switch it back to auto on the fly, in drive mode
and we're good to go.
So as we drive along,
we downshift either with the paddles or in this case, we're in drive
mode. So we'll let the car do the slowing down. It'll downshift
automatically if it gets too low. It's in d3, I slow down, no paddles and the car
automatically down shifts. I didn't have to touch anything in drive. That will
also work in manual mode. So let's go into manual mode so we're into
sequential mode and it will slow down by itself. So I'm gonna shift up.
Okay, now what I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna slow down a couple of gears.
Slowing down now, not gonna touch the paddles. I'll keep my hands off the
paddles. Keep the hands off the paddles. And it's in drive mode, now this is
manual motor. This is manual mode, not Drive. This is manual and it will take
care of the down shifts when you get too low. This system will override that. See?
I'm in third, the car doesn't like to drive in third, I'm gonna slow down, no
hands on the paddles, we're still in sequential mode it goes to second and it
will go to first automatically. It'll save you sputtering or dying out. So now
we're still in manual and get going.
So now you can shift all the way up and you'll notice I'm in seventh gear. I can
drive along in seventh no problem. I can drive along in sixth, fifth, you can
choose your gear. it'll alter the revs of course all down shift as you downshift.
The revs of the tachometer, you notice jump up and a shift down to third now.
That brings the revs up even more, or in that sporty position, so that's where
manual sequential is nice. Now you'll notice there's also five bars. There's
only five bars there. There is in fact a sixth mode for drive logic that will
engage a faster shift speed as well that you can't normally engage. Now what you
have to do to get that mode is you have to activate or deactivate the DSC, right
here on the dash. You hit DSC and then you get that mode
it tells you your traction control is off, but now you'll see there's a
separate, a new bar. Now by utilizing this little button over here we can up that to
one more shift speed setting. Now that gives us maximum attack mode by
activating that next sense, that next position, six speed setting for the
transmission shift speed. And so as soon as you want to disengage that,
you can either deactivate that with DSC. Turn that back on, and that will kick you out.
That will actually kick you out of the sixth mode, and you'll notice down here
we're down to five the fifth position again. There is no sixth mode as soon as
you activate or di or reactivate the DSC mode that will kick you out of your
sixth position automatically. Now another thing you should know, is that I know on
the Italian supercars you know the Italian cars such as a Lamborghini and
Ferrari, typically when you're sitting at the light is pull both the paddles
simultaneously and that drops you, and will not do that on this car. You'll
notice it's still in first, it doesn't work like that on a BMW. So every time I
come up to a light I always throw this into neutral. What that means is if you
put it in neutral, you're not taking where you're not imposing. We're on the
actual clutch release bearing or the throw out bearing, because if the car is in
gear idling, even though the clutch is disengaged, that's taking a wear and a
toll on the clutch itself. So you don't see what's going on but it's all
happening behind the scenes, so whenever you pull up to a set of lights, a stoplight,
for any duration, you're stopping at a longer light, you would expect always put
it into neutral, and sit at the lights in neutral gear. So that's what you want to
do there. Now let's put it in gear, and I'll show you another little trick. It's
in gear you're at a drive-through you open your door cuz you drop a dollar
outside the window. So I'm in gear, I'm gonna open the door. I'm gonna open the
door.
Look we get a flashing one. That means it's disabling the drive, first gear
drive. So it doesn't allow me to actually drive away. I'm getting out of the car.
As soon as I get out of the car, I take the weight off the car, off the seat, no it
automatically throws me into neutral. You'll see how that works, so now it
takes it out of gear automatically, and does not allow me to just drive away by
accident. As soon as I get out of that seat it disengages the gearbox and then you
have to reset it, and go back into gear as you were. Again, one more quick time,
foot off the brake, a seat belt, I'm going to reach that dollar, I step out, senses
the weight off of the seat, and puts it into neutral, and then again you have to
do a full reset, put it back to neutral, and back into drive, or first gear,
whichever you prefer. Okay everyone I really hope you enjoyed
the video quick tour of the SMG 3 transmission house, some of the features
work on it, and some of the safety devices. There's some interlocks involved
here, and I just wanted to point some of those out to you. I hope you enjoyed it.
Thanks again everyone, make sure you come back in the next video, and we'll catch
you real soon. Bye bye.