RS3 - Slack in Drive Train
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RS3 - Slack in Drive Train
I'm just past the 500 mile mark on my week-old RS3, and I've been a good boy keeping revs under 4k and not hot-rodding. Today I started noticing some apparent slack in the drive train when driving slowly (say around 10 mph) in a parking lot. If I touch the accelerator and back off, I can feel some lurching as the drive train slack gets taken up or released. Not a big deal, but surprised me the first time it happened today as I drove slowly through a parking lot (in Comfort mode). Curious if anyone else has notice this. I don't recall experiencing it with the PDK in my Macan.
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Sure!
I'm just past the 500 mile mark on my week-old RS3, and I've been a good boy keeping revs under 4k and not not rodding. Today I started noticing some apparent slack in the drive train when driving slowly (say around 10 mph) in a parking lot. If I touch the accelerator and back off, I can feel some lurching as the drive train slack gets taken up or released. Not a big deal, but surprised me the first time it happened today as I drove slowly through a parking lot (in Comfort mode). Curious if anyone else has notice this. I don't recall experiencing it with the PDK in my Macan.
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I'm just past the 500 mile mark on my week-old RS3, and I've been a good boy keeping revs under 4k and not not rodding. Today I started noticing some apparent slack in the drive train when driving slowly (say around 10 mph) in a parking lot. If I touch the accelerator and back off, I can feel some lurching as the drive train slack gets taken up or released. Not a big deal, but surprised me the first time it happened today as I drove slowly through a parking lot (in Comfort mode). Curious if anyone else has notice this. I don't recall experiencing it with the PDK in my Macan.
Really. Drive in AUTO.
My 2015 A3 2.0T is near 45K in miles and from my experience Comfort works best in two scenarios. 1. You want a relaxed drive, primarily a loose turning steering wheel over performance. 2. You're driving on the interstate/highway in rush-hour bumper-to-bumper traffic.
If you're not in either of those scenarios, get out of Comfort mode!
Auto Drive Select mode is better suited for most situations and would not slack if you give it the go your 8V needs.
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Auto is only moderately better. It does this in all drive modes, even Dynamic (albeit less so). The trans is garbage at super low speed situations like parking lots and such (my parking ramp is super annoying, especially going down when you're only sporadically applying power). I'm okay with that because of how well it performs everywhere else, but let's not pretend it doesn't exist or is somehow user error for being in the wrong drive mode.
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I too have the same slow speed clunkiness. I'm taking it back at the dealer next month for them to take a look. Not sure what they can do anything about it. I may have to bite the bullet see if TCU tune will fix this problem.
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