1996 318ti Automatic shifting question

[pcmedics911]

Greetings fellow 318ti owners,

I had a question about automatic shifting. I noticed that when I gun or hit the pedal pretty hard to get a good start, my rpms go all the way up to redline before i have to pull my foot off the pedal to have the 318ti shift to the next gear.

This seems to only happen in 2nd gear i believe. I can gun the car while on the freeway and it has no problem shifting to a lower gear for speed then diverting back to the next gear up.

This only happens when i'm at a stop light and i start off then gun the pedal. I'm not a red liner and i don't want to blow my engine (heck, im still new here!)

I used some fuel injector cleaner so i wanted to really get the car moving (to sprout the fuel injector, not to race).

I wondered why this happens since I just had the service level II recently done by a non bmw dealership.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.