Chrisbuzby

I recently purchased a 2017 allroad prestige with the driver assistance goodies. Traffic jam assist is a God send already, but I want to have a little more fun when I am in control of the wheel...

So here is the question will any suspension or tuning changes hinder the driver assistance features? Specifically I am looking at stage 1 ecu upgrade from Apr, possibly a cat back exhaust, and something to drop the stance by a couple inches...

Chris

the_duke

The answer is maybe. The suspension change might require the system to be re-calibrated.

Also keep in mind you will most likely loose your factory warranty with an ECU tune.

adg44

Don't lower the car with the adaptive suspension. It needs to stay at the factory ride height.

Chrisbuzby

Thanks for the input on both proposed mods. Think I will save my dollars enjoy the allroad with some more simplistic cosmetic mods, wheels, debadging, and playing with the led lights as in just changing the color via the mmi interface.

Maybe pickup a used gti and go crazy on the mods there

phanatic

Can you elaborate on this? I had read around about possibly lowering and it seems like the adaptive suspension is all about the shocks and will still work if you are just changing springs. I'm not that knowledgeable on suspension though so I'd really like to hear from someone who might know why it won't work in the allroad with adaptive suspension.