raptorduck

I love this car. It is my wife's, but when I drive it I love "almost" everything about it, except the fact that the transmission does not seem to communicate with the engine very well. So that is essentially my only complaint.

Ok, I do have other nits, but they don't count. It could also use more power (I have a 4.2), but all cars could use more power. I also hate the grey two tone pait at the bottom, but that is my fault as I should have waited for an S-line and not let my wife demand to have one right away.

Of course I did test drive the GL450 Mercedes at the same time as I bougtht the Q7 for my wife, and its transmission communicates well with the engine. But we still picked the Q7 because we liked it better. We still like it better.

Incidentally do all you 3.6 owners also experience the same communication issue?

MarkItZero

what specific types of problems are you experiencing? It is adaptive, so you driving style could be different from that of your wife and it is used to her driving.

Jusforfun

Mine were very different. I wonder if its just a software thing. My current one is great, no complaints.
Biggest complaint is probably having to turn IGN back on to fold mirrors.
Second thoughts...its not being able to get electric hitch on S-Line.

raptorduck

I did not know it was adaptive. There is a delay when you hit the accelerator. It is different than the delay you see with Mercedes. I used to have an ML320 and no such delay.

Also, all upshifts are jerkey. When it changes gears it does so abruptly. In "S" mode it is worse and downshifts are very rough and jerky.

vettlady76

manual telescoping steering column in a souped up 3.6 premium

MarkItZero

they have to give you some incentive to go to the 4.2 besides the engine.

hspder

Although I can't say I find the Tiptronic perfect -- not only there IS a delay downshifting when you hit the gas, I find the D mode tends to go too conservative and the S mode too aggressive (no good compromise), even when I try to "educate" it, so I end up using the paddles on my S-line 90% of the time -- shifts are smooth as can be, both up and down. Downshifting from 6th to 3rd gear is particularly beautiful -- smooth and the engine braking of the Audi V8 produces one of the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard.

So the delay is normal -- the jerkeyness isn't.

The adaptability of the transmission concerns the point at which it shifts, not how smooth it is.

Of course, the dual-clutch manumatic aka S-tronic is even smoother, but what you describing on your Q7 sounds like a transmission problem. Have it checked.

Jusforfun

Adaptive..providing you different keys!!

Q7Ash

the VW T-Reg had a lot of those items like the power steering column adjustment, the power seat belt adjustment included on the V8 version (don't know about the V6 T-Reg). I love my Q7, but you would think that those type of items would come on an Audi; especially, if they come on a VW. These are the small things that Audi seems to miss. If the wife didn't have to have the third row, I might have gone ahead with the T-reg instead.

Shabbis

which is available across all models: V6, V8 and V10.

At least for the 07s and earlier. VW changed everything for the 08s.