[s-cars] "The Aluminum Crowd" / Current UrS prices

[Taka Mizutani]

Disconnect the battery, let it sit for a good long time, then reconnect and
allow the tiptronic
ECU to learn your driving habits. You should already have the "euro" coding
for the trans, and
if that's not enough, you can get AWE to send you a tiptronic ECU chip to
make the trans shift
more aggressively.

If the prior owner pussyfooted the car all the time, you'll need to reset
the ECU to make it learn
new habits.

Taka


On 4/17/07, Gísli Óttarsson <gislio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As one who recently made the leap from an UrS4 (admittedly sans hairdryer,
> so the 4.2L was no issue) I have to say that the automatic is still my #1
> issue, 3 weeks later.  I can't take my mind of the way it is hunting
> around
> for gears when I would like it to just stay in one gear.  Driving around
> Reykjavik I would frequently leave the UrS4 in 3rd or 4th. Shifting was
> totally optional.  With 80 more horsepower and a torque converter, why
> can't
> the S8 do the same.  Maybe I just have to figure out the tiptronic.  The
> other thing is the timidness of the shifts.  I really think that if I have
> the pedal to the metal that should be a hint that I don't want any
> pussyfooting and am not looking for ultrasmooth shifts.
>
> But I love the S8 and these minor regrets are evaporating quickly.
>
>   Gisli
>