polymathsteve

Here in Canada, like everywhere else right now, it's very very warm. I think with humidity tonight it was about 35 celsius. That said, I tried launch control for the first time tonight and my oh my, I was surprised and exhilarated. It was a blast! I HAD to do it again, so I did.. wow! Drove a little more but then I decided I would do it ONE more time.. at about 80km/h the transmission overheat warning popped up so I took my foot off the gas, put the vehicle back into comfort mode and drove conservatively the rest of the night.

Anyways.. I'm assuming my vehicle is fine? I'm one of those overly worried types.. just don't want to hurt my baby.

markN1689

lmao..

when that happens you should stop driving aggressive for the night. but after that it should okay.
Great stuff. Let us know!

Kevin70

Your vehicle will be fine if you drove 'normally' after the warning. All allot of new cars do this, my C63 included.

In the future you may want to watch your transmission temperature on the Lap Timer screen of your center display. You'll have advance notice that it's heating up.
Or use a phone app to trend transmission temp against ambient. With enough data you can predict how many launches you can do at current ambient temps and transmission temp prior to the launch.

snagitseven

I wonder if the S3 launch control is permanently limited to 200 uses as found on other previous S-Tronic Audis.

superswiss

That's the engine oil temperature, not the transmission temperature.

Kevin70

You are correct and I having looked that up when we got the car should have known better.
Thank you.

Syrome

I got the APR DSG tune and they did not include raising or removing the limiter as a feature. When asked about it, they claimed there was none on this transmission.