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Originally Posted by B_Rice
Are you depressing the clutch all the way to when you shift? I've found out that the grab point is pretty much anything above the floor.
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I always depress clutch all the way, no exceptions. And the clutch grab point is supposed to be constant in BMW, that's the whole idea behind design called SAC (self-adjusting clutch) which those cars use. Maybe you mean "clutch feel" which is non-existent in BMW because conventional clutch linkage has been replaced by a feedback-free hydraulic system.
And indeed this hydraulic system might have been the root cause of my ordeal, if for whatever reason it was too slow to disengage clutch from the flywheel upon pressing the clutch pedal. When this happens an excessive torque gets transmitted onto the gearbox synchro eventually destroying it and thus the entire transmission.