[s-cars] V10 question

[bill mahoney]

Taka, JC et/eal.
Thanks for the sympathy's, feedback and suggestions.
Since I meself am basically right arm useless (i.e. torn rotator on the
mend) I cannot and have not been able to use the tip on this car.  It is
some supposedly VG incarnation of a six speed automatic.  I have only played
with the paddle shifters a couple of times  with good results while moving
but I havent used them at all from a start as that would require a right
arm:(  I do want to try some 2nd gear starts.
Tozo / Gabor from the D2 forum is going to have a go at this throttle body
alignment procedure on saturday
http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/throttlebody.html
I like the idea of a euro software coding... I know some folks over there
but what would they ask for if it were possible to get it?
I have delayed my stealer visit until thursday since my summer wheels are NG
for snow..which we had today.
I'll report back as this DBW thing seems to be the wave of the present and
future.
Bill~wired and laggy~M
PS
FWLIW
the car IS a heavy pig but still ever cool and does make me feel like a star
wars freighter pilot:)

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM, JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:

> Having just signed up for an A3 DSG for the miz this weekend, I'm just
> coming up to speed on the known funny software issues with that DSG tranny.
> I know that's obviously a totally different unit than your S6 Tip but seems
> interesting that there are some similar problems - specifically a 'dead'
> spot hesitation coming off the line, especially when a hard stomp from
> stopped (aka ricey stop-light drag race starts).  Maybe there's shared
> start-up code in the software for both units.
> DSG also has a ridiculous second of free-rolling before engaging reverse
> when parking sometimes, very repeatable and annoying, yeah we got to keep
> an
> eye on that or we'll be giving friendly taps to fellow cars in tight
> parking
> situations...  not something geared to makin' you popular in the carpark.
>
> But for many Tips you can definitely re-set the adaptation using VAG-COM,
> and some models can even be recoded for more aggressive programs (usually
> re-coding the tranny as European if I recall correctly).  Mebbee look into
> that... Also I always found the adaptive tip to be a bit annoying - if you
> drive sedately for a long time for whatever reason, you have to thrash on
> it
> to get the car re-adapted to your style and get the damn thing back to
> downshifting reasonably.  If you think it's dogging it, try beating on the
> thing for 10-15 minutes and see if that helps, that should solidly re-set
> the driver adaptation portion of the adaptive programming.  (Practice
> saying
> "But officer, I wasn't driving aggressively, I was just resetting the
> adaptation on my transmission!")
>
> I also had my Tip chipped in the C5... I would guardedly recommend a tip
> chip but with the caveat that it's not a massive difference like a DSG,
> more
> like a bit incrementally better.
>
> >
> > Bill-
> > I wonder if they do that intentionally so you don't rocket
> > forward hard when you just want to ease forward.
> >
> > Are you sure you're starting in 1st gear? I would probably
> > think you're starting off in 2nd. Maybe euro-spec trans
> > software update?
> >
> > Taka
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:11 PM, bill mahoney
>
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