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sbuk73
20-08-2008, 02:44 PM
Another weird experience I am getting with the A8 :) ... which again I want to know if this is normal or if something is broken I can't recall if this was happening when I bought the car but now I am more conscious of it.

While poodling along in DRIVE as I slow down from lets say 40mph to standstill or the basic crawl speed, I seem to be physically feel the inertia of the kickdowns from 4 > 3 especially - its a very mild sensation of what one would normally experience kicking down a manual geared car.

I have driven various automatics but have always believed the changes to be smooth and without sensation of feeling the gear down or up and especially for an A8 I would expect the gearing to run through smoothly especially when you're not accelerating but simply slowing down on the engines own accord.