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DerKimbo, do you still have drivetrain shudder when pushing in clutch at low RPMs in 1st?

Old 11-13-2006, 02:49 PM
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Default DerKimbo, do you still have drivetrain shudder when pushing in clutch at low RPMs in 1st?

I think I recalled you saying something about that a while back. I occassionally have this when the car is started up cold. I'll be in 1st gear, and at 3k rpm I'll push in the clutch. As I push it in, there is sometimes a shudder in the drivetrain, almost like the car is unbalanced and there is a shaking back and forth, the length of the car.

This seems to go away as the car warms up. It's not there any more later on, although it definitely is never there when shifting at higher RPMs or in gears higher than 1st.

Just wondering what this is, if other people have it and don't notice it.
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Default I don't think I notice a shudder, but the car definately shifts rougher when the engine is cold...

goes away as soon as the car warms up...
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I still have this problem. All my manual cars do this, including the evo and 2.0T
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Default So this is sort of "normal" for manuals?

This being my first manual in so long I
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Default Sounds pretty normal. May even be related to the cold weather maps...

DBW has some interesting little quirks as well.
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Default is normal, don't completely release the gas will usually ease the problem..

just give a hair of gas and it will not happen...my m3 and 540 does that all the time and is normal.
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Default Was happening in July, but I think its more common when the car/engine/tranny is not warmed up

and it seems more likely to happen at very very low speeds, like 3-5 mph.
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Default yeah its normal. You just have to master the clutch pedal at low speeds....

happens to the best of us.
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Default Why you gotta thrown down that Paprika jazz on my shift skills?

j/k as usual.

Thanks for putting my mind at ease...
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Default Lighter flywheel in RS4 tends to accentuate this

With a lighter flywheel, the engine is more responsive and will accentuate low speed, low torque driveability. It is possible to get the engine and drive train into a bucking oscillation, which as others point out, can be resolved by applying a bit of throttle (more torque).

With a fixed throttle position, the ECU tries to keep the engine at constant torque, but when torque is low, driveline slop and load variations due to road bumps, actually cause the engine speed to change quickly. (you can't see it on the speedometer, because of lag and averaging). The ECU interprets this as a change in the engine operating point and tries to compensate. But at low throttle(torque) settings, it doesn't take much to over correct.

The ECU torque control system will actually overshoot and ring, causing oscillations that resonate with the drivetrain, which cycles from loading the engine to not loading the engine, for very brief instants. The ECU has an anti-bucking algoithm built in, but it doesn't seem to be able to totally compensate. It just keeps the engine and drivetrain from oscillating out of control. When you apply even a slight bit of extra power, slack is removed from the drivetrain, and the load on the engine is constant and predictable to the ECU.
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