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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ericlks" data-source="post: 3387" data-attributes="member: 213"><p>Hi I just got a 2nd hand UDM, an upgrade from my old E36 325i, and while the difference in the drive are there, we wonder why they make them so lovely and so different, that you miss somethings in the old car and appreciate some of the new car, but wish that you had both the parts in the same car?Anyway, while the e36 did not have a tip/steptronic gearbox, it ran well and it handles better than the e46.  Has anyone here encountered flakey or crazy gearboxes in the 325i 2002 model?  i.e when you are crusing at 40-60kmh and suddenly you see this Perdana coming up your a&&#, instinctively you would floor the throttle, how can you let a Perdana take you? RIght?ANyway, if I am doing 60kmh, after a run above 100kmh, the gear switches smoothly and the Perdana's dust in the wind.  BUt If I have been crusing at 40kmh (okay I know that is a little too slow for a sixer but when you have a girlfriend who drives a kenari or a mother in the car!!!) and I push the peddle it jerks a few times before the gear switches down!My old e36 only did that to me after the 'knock sensors' died, from what I know the new car does not have that bleeding sensor! So what gives?Electronics?Anyone out there know the answer to this riddle?</p></blockquote><p></p>