Driving in Dynamic all the time

[alexrs6plus]

When you start the car and you have the mmi in drive select mode and dynamic is already highlighted you can just click the mmi lever down without having to cycle through the other options
"ie comfort" and the car will select dynamic and open the valves, no need to cycle through.

[dasquade]

Indeed, it is better to check the laptimer and base yourself on the oil temp. Rev limiter goes of around the time oil gets 60°C (so normally still too cold to floor it).

[alexrs6plus]

I always wait until the oil is at about 80-85°c in the laptimer before giving it all. Rev limiter raises way too early on the rs6.

[aerospace100]

I always wait until the oil is at about 80-85°c in the laptimer before giving it all. Rev limiter raises way too early on the rs6.

Is the laptimer the only place you can view the oil temp accurately?

[alexrs6plus]

In car yes

[MikeFish]

When you start the car and you have the mmi in drive select mode and dynamic is already highlighted you can just click the mmi lever down without having to cycle through the other options
"ie comfort" and the car will select dynamic and open the valves, no need to cycle through.

This only works if you have the screen on the drive select mode all the time. Pointless screen for me so it's never on, much better uses for it. So by the time I press the right buttons to get onto it, it is much easier to cycle through the modes using the drive select button and don't need to look away from the road.

[Anth]

[Anth]

When you start the car and you have the mmi in drive select mode and dynamic is already highlighted you can just click the mmi lever down without having to cycle through the other options
"ie comfort" and the car will select dynamic and open the valves, no need to cycle through.

This only works if you have the screen on the drive select mode all the time. Pointless screen for me so it's never on, much better uses for it. So by the time I press the right buttons to get onto it, it is much easier to cycle through the modes using the drive select button and don't need to look away from the road.

Agreed, although the lap timer screen Is a pain in the arse ! We need the boost and oil temp on the digital speed read out and it would be perfect without all the stopwatch pap!
I was hoping coding would let you play with the onscreen info but not on the C7 it's not cracked . M5 there's all sorts

[MikeFish]

When you start the car and you have the mmi in drive select mode and dynamic is already highlighted you can just click the mmi lever down without having to cycle through the other options
"ie comfort" and the car will select dynamic and open the valves, no need to cycle through.

This only works if you have the screen on the drive select mode all the time. Pointless screen for me so it's never on, much better uses for it. So by the time I press the right buttons to get onto it, it is much easier to cycle through the modes using the drive select button and don't need to look away from the road.

Agreed, although the lap timer screen Is a pain in the arse ! We need the boost and oil temp on the digital speed read out and it would be perfect without all the stopwatch pap!
I was hoping coding would let you play with the onscreen info but not on the C7 it's not cracked . M5 there's all sorts

The lap timer screen does have the digital speed read out. But agreed it would be nice to swap the pointless lap timer bit at the bottom for something more useful.

[MikeFish]

Indeed, it is better to check the laptimer and base yourself on the oil temp. Rev limiter goes of around the time oil gets 60°C (so normally still too cold to floor it).

Has everyone noticed although the Analog gage reads 90c the digital read out is still only in the 60 region ?

There is no analogue oil temp gauge. The only analogue gauges are the rev counter and speedo. But the water temp and fuel gauge are digital gauges displayed in an analogue style. Did you mean the water temp and oil temp? If so, yes the water gets to 90 degrees long before the oil does. But the water gauge is artificially adjusted so once it gets to 90 degrees it just sits there. A real temp
water gauge goes up when you are stationary until the fans come on, and drops lower when moving fast on a motorway etc, but Audi gauges just sit still (as do most other German cars I've noticed).
And don't get me started on that useless fuel gauge. It is pointless!!!!! I have to use the miles to empty reading to gauge how much petrol is in the tank as that gauge is useless. God knows why they thought it would be better to have a low resolution digital gauge instead on an actual analogue gauge. Talk about going forward for progress sake and not actually making it any better.

[Anth]

Indeed, it is better to check the laptimer and base yourself on the oil temp. Rev limiter goes of around the time oil gets 60°C (so normally still too cold to floor it).

Has everyone noticed although the Analog gauge reads 90c the digital read out is still only in the 60 region ?

There is no analogue oil temp gauge. The only analogue gauges are the rev counter and speedo. But the water temp and fuel gauge are digital gauges displayed in an analogue style. Did you mean the water temp and oil temp? If so, yes the water gets to 90 degrees long before the oil does. But the water gauge is artificially adjusted so once it gets to 90 degrees it just sits there. A real temp
water gauge goes up when you are stationary until the fans come on, and drops lower when moving fast on a motorway etc, but Audi gauges just sit still (as do most other German cars I've noticed).
And don't get me started on that useless fuel gauge. It is pointless!!!!! I have to use the miles to empty reading to gauge how much petrol is in the tank as that gauge is useless. God knows why they thought it would be better to have a low resolution digital gauge instead on an actual analogue gauge. Talk about going forward for progress sake and not actually making it any better.

Sorry Mike yes the water gauge that's the analog only ! I'm having a moment here
Yes I meant the large digi speed read out with the boost to the left and oil right would have been a nice touch I've been tempted to use the lap timer for certain sections of road I know point to point but the sensible side of me has since won tha thought process!


Fuel gage .. Oh dear the full segment that lasts forever and the the bottom half of the tank segments that don't really match the actual tank capacity haha you can't make it up

[Markp]

Steering always in Comfort for me - dynamic steering just feels weird and even more lifeless than standard.

[MikeFish]

My issue with the fuel gauge is that it shows 2 white bars and you have no idea if the third one has just gone out or if the 2nd one is about to go out and the last one then turns red. Why is it not red all the time? So when I see 2 white bars I've no idea if I have 30 miles left or 100 miles left. Pretty important info especially when a couple of slip road runs could empty that whole red bit pretty quickly. The only way to tell is to look at the miles to empty bit at the top. So whats the point of the actual fuel gauge? Might as well get rid of it. Pointless when really needed. A cheap old analogue gauge at least could differentiate between about to go red or quarter of a tank. Rant over.

[alexrs6plus]

My issue with the fuel gauge is that it shows 2 white bars and you have no idea if the third one has just gone out or if the 2nd one is about to go out and the last one then turns red. Why is it not red all the time? So when I see 2 white bars I've no idea if I have 30 miles left or 100 miles left. Pretty important info especially when a couple of slip road runs could empty that whole red bit pretty quickly. The only way to tell is to look at the miles to empty bit at the top. So whats the point of the actual fuel gauge? Might as well get rid of it. Pointless when really needed. A cheap old analogue gauge at least could differentiate between about to go red or quarter of a tank. Rant over.

Agreed

[Anth]

In individual when I set everything but the suspension to dynamic the car still doesn't give me the full open on the exhaust, I find myself fiddling though modes when the cars been off and on, annoying ! And if it's been left in dynamic on the mmi then even with the activation on the stick sometimes feels like you have to toggle though on screen on on the wheel button to get "actual dynamic" must be some coding that just starts in Dynamic every time ?