Bruno Piloto

Hi folks.
Can i hear your opinion about using correctly the pneumatic suspension on Allroad C5?
Better use it always on automatic mode or on manual mode?
Thank you very much guys

Kneale

I've had two of these cars. For a dozen years. What's "automatic" mode?

Bruno Piloto

My car has manual mode and automatic mode…

Kneale

This is an A6 C5 Allroad control switch for the suspension. Where's your "automatic"

Bruno Piloto

If you don’t click the “manual” button, your suspension is automatic. Means that tou start in level 3, when you reach 80kms/h it lowers to level 2, if you reach 140kms/h it lowers you to level1. When you lock the doors it automatically goes to level 3 again - parking mode.
In “man” - manual mode, the suspension does nothing of this. It just stays whenever the driver selects the hight…

Kneale

The center "MAN" is not a button that does anything. When you hit the up or down buttons, the lights in the middle go up or down. If you're at Level 1, the bottom light, manually pushing the up button will move the suspension and the light to Level 2. The only "automatic" is that the level will drop if you travel at the right speed for something like a quarter mile. So if you're at Level 2 and you go 80 miles an hour for about a quarter mile, you will find yourself at Level 1.

Bruno Piloto

Have you tried to click and hold for 3 seconds the up or down button?
Try that and reply to me telling what happened please.
Thank you very much

Kneale

I do not understand your message. Pushing both up and down buttons at once puts the suspension in jack mode, making it possible to jack the wheels off the ground without damage to the suspension. Both lights at the top will light. Once back on the ground, the car must move a short distance to release from jack mode.

If you mean push either the up or down button, of course the up button makes the suspension move up and the down makes it move down. The lights indicate which level the suspension has reached. Once in a level above 1, driving the car at speed for a half mile will make it move down one level.