[s-cars] How failtastic is the B7 S4 automatic? Anyone have a line on a manual avant?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM, brian hoeft <qweblog at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just trying to make the point that if you fully depress the pedal wait
> a moment then release the car will kind of, wake up and be ready for more
> sporty driving.

Ah, gotcha. I just didn't understand what you meant at first.  Thanks!
 If I decide to test drive one, this will come in useful :)

> Ive driven B5's 6's & 7's ans had them surge with a power loss when very
> aggressively driving them when feet were on brake&gas pedals. I attributed
> that with the programming not being considerate to left foot braking
> techniques.

Going into the history books- the MC'd 5000's actually has a signal
wire from the brake light circuit to the ECU...hit the brakes, and it
killed all boost.  I can't remember if the 3B has it...dunno about the
AAN.  The Bentley wiring diagrams will reveal...

I remember an instructor in the club telling me a bunch of years ago
that he was driving a TT with drive-by-wire throttle, and he got about
5 seconds of left-foot braking before power disappeared.

Brett