apoelistas

Good luck. Hope this or another TPI specific to your Q5 applies, and that dealer updates the TCM firmware correcting the 1-2 harsh gear shifting issue.

jhumph88

I have a '14 TDI and I've noticed this. It seems to happen more often if the auto stop/start system is activated

Redd

At this late date, I'd like to add in that I've 'solved' this problem on my car. I noticed the fumfering and bad shifting when I start up, and have to slow/stop/turn as I'm getting out onto the road and my vehicle speed is changing, but still at 'walking' speeds.

If I put the car in Sport mode instead of Drive? No problems at all.

Which proves to me that the transmission programming is making bad shifts because it can't quite figure out what to do at certain low speeds and throttle calls. Putting it in Sport literally tells the transmission "OK, hold your gear down, don't upshift" and apparently prevents the premature upshifts, which then result in immediate downshifts again when in Drive mode.

Solution? Have the wetware with the gray mass take over the shifting.

Or get a Chevy.(G)

Bob Petruska

I really don't know how anyone can drive a 2.0T Q5 in D mode, and not Sport. I find D mode the most sluggish performing dog of any vdhicle that I ever owned. If my 2014 only came with D mode the Q5 would have been unloaded in a month on something else. OK so you may lose 1-2 mpg, but do people that spend $45-60K on a vehicle really worry about 1-2 mpg less! I'm very happy with my 2.0T engine/tans performance when driven in sport mode.

Also performing a throttle body adpation occassionaly with VCDS restores crisp acceleration and crisp shifting. My trans upshifts/downshifts so smoothly with a hot/cold engine it almost feels like a CVT trans.

Go read the next gen 2018 test drive comments, the trans shifting now seems to be more annoying....progress!!!

My 2014 warranty runs out in June, so I need to go shortly to the dealer to have the PCV valve(recall)and crazed headlights replaced, and the aux heating element and aux cooling pump coding done. I'll test drive the 2018 just to see how badly the trans performs. I will not be buying a 2018 Q5 I just could never get passed that glued on IPAD display look, bloated body style, and fake exhaust ports.

Redd

Bob, just this weekend I was thinking along similar lines. WTF would anyone want to drive an automatic at all? (Oh, right, stop-n-go bumper to bumper traffic.(G)

I find no matter how the car is shifting, it can't anticipate what I am going to do next, so it simply is in the wrong gear. But realistically, who can call a 4500# petit behemoth a driver's car? I mean, pink hippo's in tutu's doing ballet, that's cute, but it ain't the Bolshoi, and it ain't ever gonna be, right?

ex-quattro PETE

just to clarify, what you described above is not what I referred to in OP.

Q5 Bob

I drove my 2013 Q5 in D mode virtually 100% of the time with no issues. I'd use Sport occasionally just to make use it still worked. I just comes down to driving styles and preference. Having the choice is good.

Bob Petruska

I respect everyone's driving style, I'm an old agressive driver and this Q5 is my first non-manual trans vehicle. Just curious.......My question to you is what you didn't like about Sport over D to change back to D mode?

Q5 Bob

I'm an old (not too aggressive these days) driver too - I drive aggressive enough to get around in city and suburban traffic but that's about it. In traffic, I found the throttle in Sport to be too hyper and jumpy for my taste. Having said that, I'm sure I'd learn to modulate it if I used it all the time, but just didn't find the need for it.

Bob Petruska

Good answer, thanks!