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Originally Posted by A8P
Thanks for the info! That's good to know.  It seems to be the type of car/gearbox that loves to pull real hard and then you relax of the acceleration a little for a gear change and put your foot down again and away you go again with the surge of torque.
It's just frustrating that we can't get the box to be more snappy. Plenty of companies claiming to change gear change to be more reactive but as you say there probably ain't much we can do with it.
Check the link below.
http://www.amdtuning.com/audi/a8s8/d...ftware-upgrade |
As far as I know neither the A8 or S8 have a DSG box but I stand to be corrected! I have done a remap on an A5 that had a DSG box though and it drove much differently than the old torque converter autos, which are just slow by design compared to a DSG box.
I find if I really want to push on, driving in manual is best. Change up at an indicated 36-3700 and by the time it's thought about it and actually done it, it'll be sat just under 4k so still pulling but not stopping on the limiter first.