Transmission Mode Switch: Description and Operation

Range Selector & Program Switch
- The E38 and E31 will continue to use the "A" and "M" program switch for manual selection of the "M" program.
- Manual selection of the extreme sport program is carried out by pulling the range selector lever into 4, 3 or 2.
- In the E39, the two position program switch is not used. The E39 manual program selection is limited to the extreme sport program by moving the shift lever to 4, 3 or 2.
- The extreme sport program is a manually selected aggressive program that raises the shift points above the automatically selected AGS sport program.