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Top speed limiter

Post by RSVI » Tue May 08, 2007 10:53 am

Another post made me ask this question. Please don't slate me :oops:

Those of you who have been able to take your RS6 into light speed, where did you find the limiter.

In other words, what speed did your speedo say you were doing when she said "no more, please, no more! ! "

Just wondering, In Germany i got to 170 mph on the speedo and that's where it stopped, had a GPS speed on the tomtom but i didn't think about looking at the time.

The std 6's are meant to stop at 155, is 170 on the clock 155 or is the 155 limiter more of a give or take 160/165?

Interested to see what others have found while driving in Germany or your 2 mile driveway.

Thanks.

This topic came from my post "Std RS6" when marmite pointed out "Tested to 165 mph"
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Re: Top speed limiter

Post by RSVI » Tue May 08, 2007 10:55 am

:oops: bloody buttons :oops:
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Post by marmite » Tue May 08, 2007 11:09 am

I have had the needle just crossing the '0' on the 180 MPH

Had 156mph on the Talex on a test track day :-)
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RE: Re: Top speed limiter

Post by S3ADF » Tue May 08, 2007 11:42 am

Mine also stopped the needle at 170mph but was still pulling comfortably as it got there. I was reassured at how well-planted the car felt at this speed.

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Post by SteveH » Tue May 08, 2007 9:43 pm

My faith in tyre rubber integrity is my speed limiter!
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RE: Re: Top speed limiter

Post by S2tuner » Wed May 09, 2007 1:35 am

The top speed limiter on a standard RS6 is programmed at 255km/h or 158.45 mph.

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Post by BigMo » Wed May 09, 2007 10:17 am

On that same stretch of german autobahn, I have had 182 indicated on the snooper. Bloody scarry stuff tho.
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Post by FlyRS6 » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:21 pm

passed 180 recently on M62 racing a Porsche Turbo S. Didn't dare look down but her who must be obeyed said "that'll do now....181 miles an hours fast enough"! Car was still pulling and regret going that fast but regret not seeing hoe much more it would have give

agree with other comment about how well planted car felt :lol:

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Post by MugelloR » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:29 pm

FlyRS6 wrote:passed 180 recently on M62 racing a Porsche Turbo S. Didn't dare look down but her who must be obeyed said "that'll do now....181 miles an hours fast enough"! Car was still pulling and regret going that fast but regret not seeing hoe much more it would have give

agree with other comment about how well planted car felt :lol:

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Post by Fen » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:03 pm

FlyRS6 wrote:passed 180 recently on M62 racing a Porsche Turbo S. Didn't dare look down but her who must be obeyed said "that'll do now....181 miles an hours fast enough"! Car was still pulling and regret going that fast but regret not seeing hoe much more it would have give

agree with other comment about how well planted car felt :lol:
Back when it was a standard road car I maxed my 944T on the M62 - 162 by GPS just like Porsche said. Amusingly leaving behind a 540i (presumably) on its limiter. It was some years ago and in the middle of the night though it was still irresponsible. Fun though and amazing how those motorway curves you don't really notice suddenly become corners.
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Post by RSVI » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:34 am

Fen wrote:amazing how those motorway curves you don't really notice suddenly become corners.

:lol: Not wrong there :lol:
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Post by mbedford » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:03 pm

185 on the speedo and still pulling [ thanks to an MRC remap ]. Only time I've experienced tunnel vision. The speck on the horizon became a car far too quickly. Don't think i'll be trying it again.

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Post by shineydave » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:24 pm

think it was in Car magazine (but i might be wrong) in their top 100 cars it said something like " RS6 Avant, Audi tell us there's a limiter but no one has been able to find it yet"
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Post by RSVI » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:29 pm

I did find it at 170 on the clock back in april, not seen it since :?
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Post by Babsi » Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:17 am

280----but km/h about 173mph

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