nobbyv

The transmission doesn't "learn" your driving style in the way you are imagining it. Programmed into the ECU for the tranny are a few different algorithms based on how you drive the car. The car selects the one that best fits your driving style, and will revert to that algorithm the next time you start the car. But if you startdriving more agressively, the ECU simply switches algorithms, and then THAT becomes the "default" algorithm.

The way you've phrased it reminds me of folks that argue that you need to drive your car "hard" during break-in (the so-called "Mototune method") because you only get one shot to establish the engine's "character" for the life of the engine. This may or may not be true, but the transmission adaptation is nothing like that. You're not making any "permanent" changes to the car's transmission by driving it one way or the other.

All the TSB mentioned does is tweak the parameters of some of those algorithms (and reset to the default algorithm). It may take a few days for the car to decide which of the new tweaked algorithms best suits your driving style

nobbyv

That was me. Unfortunately, my logic was shouted down so many people are still under the mistaken impression that simple VCDS mods (or alternately, the same mods done with the dealer's diagnostic software) will cause a TD1 flag.

HyperS4

Feel like a puppy who got hit on the nose with a newspaper huh?

It's not mistaken, it "can" cause it even with the dealers tools, and its not really an issue anyway if it does get flagged.

Moving on...

I got the updates done to my car yesterday and I decided to have both the ECU update and Steering update done.I

Even though my second S6 transmission felt better than the first one I had, this update really removes 90% of the hesitancy felt previously. Everything feels great and I can see the gears changing a lot earlier than before as opposed to hanging on to one longer than it should.

For the steering, I definitely noticed a difference again. I feel that the lower speed is possibly a bit more resistant(opposite of what some people say as overassisted). I also notice that turn-in is a lot quicker. To the point where I was moving the steering wheel to where I normally would have put it to go around a curve and now on the same curve at the same steering wheel angle Im aiming for the curve. I have to get used to the new steering angles. Unfortunately, this presented itself to be a negative thing in the wet yesterday as I kept thinking I was understeering and sliding(even though I wasnt).

YMMV of course.

nobbyv

I'd say more like Galileo.