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RS4 has arrived....slight issue...
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:42 am
by bye bye
Hi,
Collected Sprint Avant on Thursday and am finding any excuse to go out for a drive.
Not as noisy as I thought it would be (just out of a '58 R32 which was noisier).
Found an annoying issue....when I nail it from a standstill the gear change from 1st to 2nd or 2nd to 3rd causes the car to hesitate for a second. It's intermittent which makes it more annoying. Maybe I am getting used to the clutch but I have done over 300 miles in it. It feels like traction control but the light does not come on and roads are dry.
Any ideas....got 3 months of proper warranty left so want to make sure the car is perfect before the extended warranty kicks in.
Cheers
Mark
RE: RS4 has arrived....slight issue...
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:46 am
by pippyrips
Its the electronic safety gizzmos being over sensitive - a short press of the ESP button on the dash will cure it.
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:18 am
by W8PMC
As above, it's likely to be your driving style so as you get used to the car it should vanish.
High power & manual gearboxes are not always the best of friends. You'll see many very high powered equiv cars having DCT, SMG of some other variant of smei-auto or semi manual gearbox.
Needs a brave & strong clutch to dump 420 ponies on the tarmac through a 4wd, so the on board computer will sometimes say NO & <beep> the car marginally.
As said, you don't need to hammer the box to get a rapid start. Even now after 2+yrs of RS4 ownership, i get a start wrong & suffer the same fate.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:21 pm
by simonhill
Just wait till you try blipping the throttle on downshifts - it don't like that either!
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:10 pm
by P_G
I don't have any issue with blip downshifts in most gears that I have tried?
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:20 pm
by PetrolDave
P_G wrote:I don't have any issue with blip downshifts in most gears that I have tried?
Me neither.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:20 pm
by silverRS4
Its the ESP. If I have any gripes about the car, its having to turn ESP completely off (hold button 3-4 seconds with car not in gear) every time I drive the car. I suppose you could just disable traction control with a simple press as Pippy suggested, but I do not like the ESP light blinking.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:46 pm
by pippyrips
PetrolDave wrote:P_G wrote:I don't have any issue with blip downshifts in most gears that I have tried?
Me neither.
nor me, ever.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:18 pm
by Dom81
silverRS4 wrote:Its the ESP. If I have any gripes about the car, its having to turn ESP completely off (hold button 3-4 seconds with car not in gear) every time I drive the car. I suppose you could just disable traction control with a simple press as Pippy suggested, but I do not like the ESP light blinking.
Seems an extreme approach to get rid of a flashing light
P_G wrote:I don't have any issue with blip downshifts in most gears that I have tried?
Add me to the 'me neither's