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Apr 24, 2013 | 04:42 PM

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rnl

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Originally Posted by ///armin

No need to take it off during gear changes, the gear changes are happening fast enough.

An interesting fact though which I just saw in the brochure, if you are cruising and you take your foot off the accelerator, PDK deselects current gear and puts the car into neutral until you press the acceleration or break again.....called Coasting.

Sometimes. It depends. If you are descending it may not do that. You can also up shift to coasting.

Apr 25, 2013 | 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by 998M

Only when the autostart/stop feature is turned on. I actually don't like it. When you put your foot back on the throttle, it has a little jerk.

Get it checked out. I actually like the coasting. So much so that on longer "relaxed" drives in limo mode I have the auto-start/stop on while driving but switch it off just before coming to a stop as I hate the engine stopping.

Anyway, absolutely no jerk here when it engages after a coasting session - it is so completely smooth I don't know it is happening unless I look at the rev counter.

I'm an electronics guy and I'm starting to wonder if I just can't make a little gadget that can do this automatically. To create an electronic switch over the real one is no challenge - to read the current state of the auto-start/stop is easy - just look at the voltage over the red LED. Getting the speed is also possible - that is part of the CAN bus. Just don't know (yet) if the relevant bus is wired to the console, if not a bit of wiring is needed to the fuse box (two wires).
With the above I could easily do a small micro that switches auto-start stop off when then car gets slow but switches it on if you are moving. With this I would have coasting but no auto-start/stop...

Rainier