RE: Speed Limiter

["Paul Wilson" <pwilson@ma.ultranet.com>]

Allegedly, the Wett chip will disable the speed limiter.  I imagine the
others will as well.

Paul Wilson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Timothy Wise
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 1:19 PM
> To: johnc@together.net
> Cc: David Lola; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: RE: Speed Limiter
>
>
> Ooops.  I just read that the A4 has a fly by wire throttle and cruise
> control.  I suspect you're right the speed limiter is an extension of the
> this instead of a wrapper around the rev limiter. This would also make it
> safe to hit the speed limiter regularly. Changing the speed
> limiter is likly
> only a software change (probably reqiuring lots of reverse
> engineering, or a
> shop that has done that, involving many legal issues, etc).
>
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> > [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of johnc@together.net
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 11:22 AM
> > To: Timothy Wise
> > Cc: David Lola; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> > Subject: Re: Speed Limiter
> >
> >
> > 'spozedly there is a speed limiter for US A4's, set at 130mph,
> > claimed due to
> > tires, US liability and tort law may have something else to do
> > with it as well.
> > i suspect the germans know that not only are we bad drivers, but
> > that we also
> > like to find someone else to blame for it.
> >
> > there is also a rev limiter.
> > the chip makers typically delete the first and delete or up the second.
> > since this is a chip function, it would have to be burned into
> > the PROM, and no
> > dealer could do that even if they would, which they wouldn't.
> >
> > haven't tried top speed since getting my car & chip.  although i
> > believe tire
> > speed ratings to be fairly conservative don't want to test the
> > bounds of my nice
> > new Hakka 1's which are _not_ exactly built for speed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>