Welcome back everybody. Hey, it's Mark
with Exotic Car Play Place, standing in
front of this beautiful 2018 BMW m4
competition package. So this car was lent to
me so graciously by the great folks at
Edmonton BMW, make sure you check them
out in the comments section below,
there's a link to their website, many
great cars like this as well as other
cars, reds, blues, greens, Purple, you name
it, they've got them all. Now this video,
really we're gonna dive into how to
operate the gear box. This is a DCT, in
fact, not a manual transmission. This is the
dual clutch transmission. I'm going to
walk you through the settings. Okay so
let's start, we're gonna press the button
and start the car, so I'm gonna put the
foot on the brake, start the car,
you'll notice it's in park here right
now. So that's the position it has to be
in, so it's in park right. So there's a
shutoff procedure, and you have to follow
that before you turn the car off, so
we're in park right now, we're fine, we
can turn the car off, but if I was
driving, so I put the car in a gear, and
you'll notice up here it shows it in
Drive. So I'm driving along, okay I'm
driving, pretty typical stuff, driving
along, now I'm going to stop. I stop, then
look over here, I'm gonna toggle to the
stick, this way and now it's in neutral.
So neutral you would think where you
would park a manual transmission car, but
it doesn't like that, so what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to turn the ignition off.
Now it gives me a fault,
now tells me transmission in neutral,
vehicle cannot be locked. So you can't
even lock up the vehicle. So if I take
out, pretend I'm out of the car, so I'm
gonna open the door, I'm gonna close the
door. I'm gonna go try to lock the car, it
honks the horn, it tells me that it's not
in a position that it wants to be in. So
what I'm going to do, I'm gonna restart
up the car, foot on the brake, start the
car, now the proper procedure is toggle
us once to the right either in drive or
in manual, and then I can turn the car
off.
Now you'll look on the dash and it says
p4 park, now that's where it needs to be,
and it's happy, that's the procedure. You
need to be in P, not an N, even though
you're using the e-brake here. Always use
the hand brake whether you're in park or
neutral, whatever you're doing, this is
always standard, but I'm gonna take that
off, but we're now in the park position.
So next thing, what we're gonna do is
we're gonna start up the car again, press
the button, now there's a couple of
options we can do here, and I'm gonna
familiarize you with the different
controls. Number one on the steering
wheel here, on the steering wheel, you'll
notice you've got the plus and minus, and
I can't do anything. You'll see P,
nothing's changing, it's not toggling.
This is like there's no response so
that's up shift,
and it's a downshift, but we're still in
P. Why? Because we have to engage the
transmission, so there's a couple of
things going on here. This transmission
will allow us to toggle to manual,
automatic, neutral, and the like as well
as this is your shift point settings, so
you're gonna hit this is gonna change or
the point at which it shifts in Auto, so
you'll notice in here, we've got R, N, D, and S
so neutral we're in neutral, we know
that but say I want to go backwards,
that's our, you can't just push it, you
need to come over and push it back, and
now you see the light, it's re,d now we go
backwards, okay let's stop that. Now we're
gonna pull it back, it goes into neutral,
the next step is I'm gonna put this one,
toggle over now, what that does is you'll
notice it's in the drive position. D1 now.
I'm gonna toggle this speed setting here
and now you'll notice those little
things, toggle those little hash marks,
toggle, as I toggle the button that just
changes your shift points on the
automatic mode. So let's dial it up to 3
and then the next move is, let's toggle
it one more time to the right. Now that
puts us in manual mode because it's a 1,
the other one was a d1 which is Drive,
which is basically automatic and this is
manual, so we can toggle this again now.
Keep toggling it back and forth and it goes
one, but d1 and one, and that's basically
how that works, or we'll leave it in
Drive.
Now you'll notice if I pull back that
shifts, as well push forward that shifts,
that's pretty familiar territory for
anybody who was used to driving an SMG. I
know I've got the e60 m5 and it works
the same way, so as you pull back, the
gears go up, push forward the gears go
down, so again pulling back, gear up, to
push forward gear down, that's how that
works.
Now of course we're gonna toggle it back
to manual.
We're in manual mode again. Okay so order
back in one, that's where we want to be,
so we're gonna shift now, we're gonna
start using these shift levers, okay so
I'm gonna set off, you just foot off the
brake, he's on to the gas, and I want to
change gears, so I'm gonna pull it once.
It changed a second but it won't go to
third because the speed is too low. Now I'm
gonna use the other side over here, and
I'm gonna downshift it back to first, and
you'll notice on the dash we're back in
first gear. It's really as simple as that
guys. Gonna throw this in neutral so in a
lot of ways BMW has their way they
designed this, as I mentioned it's very
similar in operation to the old E60,
you know the SMG 3s, and the SMG
transmissions. Kind of the functionality
is very similar with the stick shift,
however there's a key difference, the
SMGs were a single automated manual
gearbox, and now this car is driven by a
dual clutch transmission, which has sets,
gear sets, so like one in three, two, and
four, and so on and so forth. Their gear
sets so it helps you shift faster,
they're also far more reliable, and they
drive easy, and they set off much, much
easier than the old SMG gearboxes. So
they are a vast improvement. So that's
all I have to say about that everybody. I
hope that really helps you, in short I
want to share with you how to operate
the DCT in this M4 competition. I want
to thank again the gentlemen from
Edmonton BMW. Make sure you check out
their website for other cars such as
this, and don't forget to subscribe to
the channel. I'd love to see you real
soon guys. See you then