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Saw this on club18t:
You can also recode the transmission with a Vag Com. When you recode the transmission, the there are three modes: we'll call them stock mode, sport mode, and sport mode #2. To get the car in sport mode, you have to press the accelearte past the kickdown point. Stock mode basically learns your driving style and adjusts itself to what it thinks you want. In stock mode if you press to the kick down point the car drops into the lowest available gear and enters sport mode until the TCU thinks you dont want to drive sporty anymore then goes back to lazy grandma shifts. IMHO the stock learning is gay because its not fast enough. It takes too long for the TCU to say "hey looks like he wants to drive sprited" and its too quick to put you back in grandma shift mode.
Stock mode:
-Better gas milage by like 0.5-1.0 MPG
-Nice sloppy shift (takes a while) for better gas milage
Sport Mode:
-Firm, rigid, more precise shifting
-Quicker shifting
-Less time for slippage so the fluid doesnt heat up as much
.....-every automatic transmission slips towards teh higher RPMs; thats why there is tranny fluid... to keep the gears from grinding
Sport Mode #2:
-Same as first sport mode but hold 1st gear longer if your tiptronic doesn't hold first gear (like in the S4)
The Sport Mode is so noticable and definately shifts faster! Great mod to do IMO.
To recode, attach the vagcom to your car, click on Transmission, select your car and click Recode.
Remember your stock code in case you want to go back. Mine was 0066, I believe.
Sport Mode - 00032
Sport Mode #2 - 00022
You can also recode the transmission with a Vag Com. When you recode the transmission, the there are three modes: we'll call them stock mode, sport mode, and sport mode #2. To get the car in sport mode, you have to press the accelearte past the kickdown point. Stock mode basically learns your driving style and adjusts itself to what it thinks you want. In stock mode if you press to the kick down point the car drops into the lowest available gear and enters sport mode until the TCU thinks you dont want to drive sporty anymore then goes back to lazy grandma shifts. IMHO the stock learning is gay because its not fast enough. It takes too long for the TCU to say "hey looks like he wants to drive sprited" and its too quick to put you back in grandma shift mode.
Stock mode:
-Better gas milage by like 0.5-1.0 MPG
-Nice sloppy shift (takes a while) for better gas milage
Sport Mode:
-Firm, rigid, more precise shifting
-Quicker shifting
-Less time for slippage so the fluid doesnt heat up as much
.....-every automatic transmission slips towards teh higher RPMs; thats why there is tranny fluid... to keep the gears from grinding
Sport Mode #2:
-Same as first sport mode but hold 1st gear longer if your tiptronic doesn't hold first gear (like in the S4)
The Sport Mode is so noticable and definately shifts faster! Great mod to do IMO.
To recode, attach the vagcom to your car, click on Transmission, select your car and click Recode.
Remember your stock code in case you want to go back. Mine was 0066, I believe.
Sport Mode - 00032
Sport Mode #2 - 00022
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