Autobox peculiarities

[Nick Jones]

Just realised that my car has previously featured on here while belonging to Audidoody, whom it seems I bought it from.......

Anyhow, just trying to determine whether this is a fault or a feature.
I'm not an autobox connoisseur, I've owned 3 in 35 years of driving - a Dolomite Sprint that got converter to manual pronto as it was such an awful combination (BW65 3 speed clockwork slushbox that insists on changing up at 3.5k and an engine that comes on cam at 4k....) and my previous A8 - early 4.2 with the 4HP22 - which was ok, but not very subtle.

This one 2.8 FL 2WD is more subtle, but has some quirks.

1.
It's really quite hard to make a smooth getaway. It either just creeps away, or if you apply a whisker more throttle, suddenly sets off a bit harder than intended - doesn't appear to be a middle way. Not even sure if its a gearbox or throttle thing.

2.
when pottering about in traffic, it fusses about, changing gear more often than seems necessary. It's quite subtle about it and the changes themselves are fine, just seems a bit unnecessary. And sometimes, when you apply a little extra throttle it changes up a gear.

3.
It appears to alter it's behaviour and is not consistent with it's change points. Possibly it's tracking my driving and adjusting, but I don't think it does it very well. In tiptronic mode it's lovely and the changes seem even smoother - which also makes me wonder about the throttle.

The invoices say it had an oil change in 2015 ans the PO told me it had a new throttle body quite recently (also mentioned on here).

Could be it's entirely normal - a feature rather than a fault?

What thinks the panel?

Thanks

Nick