2015 Audi S5 KickDown Explanation/Demonstration

[tkucey]

I don't drive an Audi, but thank you for finally doing a clear an easy-to-understand explanation of this feature.

[Markanaldo]

love the kick down goes even better with the stage 1!

[leontm]

This technology exists since many years in nearly every german car with automatic transmission. It's a standard feature and all german cars with automatic transmission i know have this. Even the older ones. And i know from one car i drove that it sometimes shifts 2 gears down.

[f]

I dont think ive ever floored it without kickdown til today i realized what it did on the highway 😅

[JoshyHJoshy]

A couple of times that I intentionally floored the gas pedal very hard, I felt the kick-down switch and of course the harsh downshift, but for some paranoid reason, I feel that it might "get stuck" so I am hesitant to use it often. My question is: if you press down the pedal too hard to activate the kick-down switch, it is ever possible that it might actually get stuck? Can I use it often without such a fearful feeling that the pedal might not come back up? Thanks

[AhmedKMoustafa]

That was crystal clear in less than two min :D

[charlieanslow]

Its cool. Lorries have the same feature for exitijg junctions or roundabouts quickly

[leon]

You can also double kick the pedal and it’ll go down a few gears

With my Polo 2023 (7-speed DSG, 95BHP 1L 3 cylinder gas engine), if I push throttle 50% it drops 2 gears to 3.5-4k RPM (start of power band but also max torque at that RPM), 1 more gear at 75-90%. Kickdown puts it close to redline and just kinda huffs and puffs for 2-3 seconds because the turbo is spooling up and there's little torque at top RPM. In short: kickdown to overtake on a motorway is not worth it.
I've found myself overtaking briskly if I either put in 50% throttle or downshift myself to 5th gear (at 90-100km/h it puts it into 3.5k RPM, point of max torque for this car), turn the blinker on, and then put throttle to 75-80%, then it really takes off, even with 95 horses it accelerates very happily. No need to floor it.

[mattbod]

Dunno why this is surprising to you. Automatic transmissions have had this feature for decades.

[Wigwhom]

anyway to disable the kickdown and click feeling?

[maii]

Do you need to hold it down or just click in then it drops the gears??

[manjotsandhu]

Thx for letting me know what that does! But I have a quick question I just bought a 2021 S5 and when ever I floor it the gas pedal clicks then gets stuck when u let go of it it still accurates, is this normal?

[kellywillis]

A quick call for more magic unicorn HP!

[leebrowwski]

N.B. never use the kickdown feature when out of warranty. Somebody in Ingolstadt Germany is notified by satellite. They will promptly deploy a remote switch that will cause you to require a service call to the factory dealership.

[TriptoCo]

You do realize that every automatic/ DSG ECT. has this feature. Even a Honda civic does. It's nothing new. I will say once you get a DSG tune and Ultracharger it is very, very pronounced. Love it on my B8.5 S5. But yeah, all automatics have a kick down...

[NoName-gctu]

Do you need to hold it down or do you just click it in then it drops the gears then u can click it out and just hold it floored or once you have clicked it into the downshift, you hold it untill you no longer want to accelerate

[bieler]

My 20 year old 1.9TDI VW Passat had this, and it was not an S5 lol
People just getting crazy about kickdowns? wow

[ptlpszt]

Wtf is he talking about? All automatics kick down at full throttle

[ChrisC]

Uh. All my cars have this it’s not special