RikiTik

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crew219

under braking were wrong.

I wonder what the switch looks like.

Dave

RikiTik

The article says that durring ABS breaking or ESP intervention. dunno

crew219

People were saying that the competition mode would leave the coupling engaged during deceleration and braking so it would use the engine to "brake" and give other desirable full-time AWD characteristics.

Since there is zero mention of that in the press release, I'd assume that they have chosen not to add that feature.

Not surprised though that it uncouples during ABS braking and ESP though.

Dave

Jack_Smackus

Wow, I would be very interested in that.

Waggin

Let's see now.. We'll have three DSG operating modes, three Haldex modes.. Nine possible drivetrain operating modes..

I wish the No-Switch installation would have the controller detect the DSG mode and set itself to a correspondingly, "D" = Normal, Sport = Sport, etc. "M" = Race..
Let the user override with the switch, or leave it in automatic..

crew219

remember, there are plenty of manual transmission cars with a haldex coupling. Just think of it as a ferrari with the different traction control settings on the steering wheel . . . independent of transmission inputs.

Dave

dan-phx

That looks expensive. Time to start embezzling from my lunch money.

Waggin

Otherwise, why mention that it disengages in those particular situations, since normal units disengage during any braking action.

crew219

If they're going to make any changes, i'm sure it would have been completely outlined on that sheet. There's a nice 10 page (i think) thread about this on fourtitude. Explains the advantages and disadvantages of haldex . . . and one of them is that it is not engaged under braking.

Dave