Yet another VAG strange feature

[DustyC]

I cant stall my Golf!

TDi 90 Golf.
If you let the clutch out in first the engien revs build to prevent it stalling and then settle again as the car rolls along. You can then change up through the gears and it happens in each gear.
It will finally drive along at 30 MPH in fifth gear with out touching the throttle at all. It doesent even sound laboured.

I drive all the way home the other night with out using the throttle (much to my girlfriends annoyance, but I had to prove a point and it was only 1 mile!)

[timbrown]

I'll try this later when I get my Leon back
drove an RS4 with a competition clutch this weekend, now that WAS easy to stall ... I didn't but 75% of the other drivers did .. talk about binary clutch, suppose it goes with the digital throttle ?

[Plotloss]

Thats a feature of diesels.

HUGE torque you see...

[DustyC]

I know its a normal diesel thing (I've owned a 4.0 Diesel) but this seems to be an ECU controlled thing. The revs seem to rise and fall in such a controlled manner.
What with the anti-left foot braking device and this the car is close to driving itself!

[Marki]

Plotloss said:

Thats a feature of diesels. HUGE torque you see...

So err can someone explain torque to me again

[trefor]

My A6 petrol does that. Nice in a traffic jam, just lift the clutch slowly and the car moves off. Anti-stall technology.

[Plotloss]

DustyC said:

I know its a normal diesel thing (I've owned a 4.0 Diesel) but this seems to be an ECU controlled thing. The revs seem to rise and fall in such a controlled manner. What with the anti-left foot braking device and this the car is close to driving itself!

Yeah, that it could be.

My Cooper S did it as well, when you dipped the clutch it added about 200rpm after the initial dip to make the upchange quicker.

Nice little touch I thought.

[Roadrunner]

If you have no torque in an engine you have to rev the nuts off it - think moped.

If you have mega torque you can pull away effortlessly - think steam train.

Stepping from my elise into driving an R32 is fairly similar to the above examples. Both in pulling power and noise!

[DustyC]

trefor said:

My A6 petrol does that. Nice in a traffic jam, just lift the clutch slowly and the car moves off. Anti-stall technology.

I discovered it whilst bored in a traffic jam too!
Makes slow jams not half as bad and certainly a lot better then the quadricep press required when in the griff

[tuffer]

Obviously this is not fitted to Audi A4 1.9TDi's as mine stalls on average 30 times a day

[timbrown]

Dusty ... bored in a traffic jam ?
I'm disappointed !
my personal fav for that is to give the car in front 10-15 yards space, then dump the clutch in first with plenty of revs, and leave two nice black lines for the car behind me to enjoy while I check out the look of fear on the guy in fronts mirror !
works every time

[adrianr]

I do the same in jams on my TDI 130; between that and the cruise control I save a lot of pedal rubber wear :-)

The thing I want to know is why it can't do clutchless shifts once on the move - seems to me all the sensors and ECU capability is there, just needs programming...wonder if any of the re-chip merchants have tried it?

mmm. thinking about it, perhaps it doesn't know which gear it's in, so you'd need a pickup for that.

AdrianR


>> Edited by adrianr on Tuesday 25th May 14:46

[DustyC]

thats a good point adrian, just needs a little sensor to tell it when the gear stick is moved and what gear it is in.
Perhaps this would need an ON switch too.

Would also only be good for upshifts, obviously.

[SJobson]

My S6 has an anti-stall feature too. It's called an automatic gearbox