[s-cars] V10 question

[JC]

Bill - Just to clarify I was talking about 2 different possibilities...

1. "Recoding" meaning just changing a coded value within your existing
firmware - aka plug in a VAG-COM and change a value so it thinks it's a Euro
car or whatever.  May or may not be possible or useful but this is what a
number of older Tip owners are able to do, to wit the D2 folks:
http://www.audipages.com/Tech_Articles/auto_transmission/codingtransmission.
html
So if that worked for you it'd be no parts no software just a VAG-COM
procedure to make aggressive shifting 'stick'. Aside from any NorAm vs. Euro
coding, given that it's the same core ZF 6HP26A tranny as in the D3 S8 I
would guess the possibly exists that you could re-code the TCU to that and
see how it works. Having a really bad coding might not be great for the car
but given that the S8 is "only" 14hp more I wouldn't think it'd be a big
deal.  Ideally find somebody whose got all the various Bentleys  and/or is
just a VAG-COM tiptronic wizard and knows what the coding is and what is
possible.

2. Tip chip or re-flashing - truly replacing/upgrading your firmware either
from a custom tuner or getting some different base firmware for the car from
another model/region. The old way to do this was to socket the chips and
that's what I had in C5. Now they are of course flashing engine ECU's by
wire but I have no idea if anybody's written code to flash the
multitronic/tiptronic trannies... I did a quick search and don't see muhc -
doesn't seem like there's a big market for performance tuning the Tips so
much...

JC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of bill mahoney
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 10:58 AM
> To: JC
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] V10 question
>
> 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


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