[s-cars] S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

Fri Mar 12 12:10:28 PST 2010

Seriously people THESE CARS HAVE REV LIMITERS! Hell Audi's and likely any 
car worth it's weight in scrap metal have had rev limiters since the early 
'80's. You car can (and will) happily bounce off the rev limiter for a 
reasonable period of time (tens of minutes) without doing damage. The first 
potential issue is that after a minute or so it may start to overheat the 
catalytic converters.

If your throttle ever sticks shifting to neutral (and/or depressing the 
clutch pedal) and letting it bounce of the rev limiter for the few seconds 
it takes to get off the road and chill out then shut it off is a perfectly 
acceptable and reasonable option.

-Cody Forbes

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From: "calvin young" <calvinyoung at cox.net>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:40 PM
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

> I had an unintended accel on my S4, but it was due to a small part made of
> phenolic plastic.  When it breaks, the engine races to redline.  I had a
> dickens of a time with it since I could not turn off the engine or get the
> car off four lanes of washington rush hour traffic.  I had to mash the
> brakes and let the car engine race until I got over.  I did not want to 
> put
> it in neutral and let the engine explode.  When I did get the car stopped,
> the manifolds were cherry red.  I replaced the plastic part with one I 
> made
> from a steel bolt.  Audi wanted to sell me a $900 replacement part (I 
> forget
> the part name).  You would think when the part broke, the gas would have
> been cut off rather than allow the spring to take the accelleration to 
> max.
>
> Cal
>
>
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>> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:33:22 -0500
>> From: Mark Turczyn <mkturczyn at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC - Another Toyota story
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>> Interesting that the pundits have not dredged up the Audi experience
>> with "unintended acceleration".
>>
>> I think electronics is a good bet in this case- which may make any
>> new fly by wire car vulnerable.
>>
>>  I had a recent experience in a 2009 S8 that a friend of mine owns.
>> He let me take it for a spin and we were on a long straight when  it
>> started to accelerate hard without me pushing the pedal.  I stepped
>> on the brake and it hauled it down but as soon as I let off the brake
>> it would accelerate hard again.  I did this cycle three times. Then I
>> downshifted manually and still no change.  I did not what to put it
>> into neutral out of fear that the motor would go to redline so I
>> tried one more downshift before I was going to slow down, pull over,
>> and turn off the motor.
>>
>> The extra downshift did the trick but the experience was pretty
>> crazy.   I put my foot into it again and we went on our way.   At the
>> end of the ride I was more upset with the dumb shallow cup holder
>> then I was about the "unintended acceleration" because my friend put
>> his cup/thermos into the cup holder with the top still cranked open
>> and when I pulled a hard right turn the cup landed in my lap and did
>> the hot coffee in the crotch trick.
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:32:45 -0600
>> From: "Bill Mahoney" <wmahoney at disk.com>
>> Subject: [s-cars]  NAC - Another Toyota story
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>> Drive by wire is sort of a new driving experience.
>>
>> On the neu S6 I thought the lag was some trans. defect. only to
>>
>> learn later that (uhmmm) "S" is for Sport mode (not "Second" gear)
>>
>> D'oh what an idiot!   Again
>>
>> "D" is set to shift into second very quickly, "S" holds first until about
>> 3600rpm IIRC.
>>
>> But
>>
>> It is all still wrong.
>>
>> "S" is actually "Suck down gas mode."
>>
>> I figured out all the paddle shifting foolery and wisely turned it over 
>> to
>> it's new owner, my wife.
>>
>> All that said, the wide tired, hard riding, stiff seated, uber
>> electrotonic
>> gadgetized, V10, is INsane.
>>
>> Bill~and that's why I like it~M
>>
>>
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