Adapting kick-down function - vehicles with automatic gearbox or dual clutch gearbox — AUDI
Adapting kick-down function - vehicles with automatic gearbox or dual clutch gearbox on Audi: 11 steps, engines AJQ, AMU, APP, APX.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Select Vehicle self-diagnosis from the list (item 1).
- From menu (1), select vehicle system "“Engine electronics”" and press → key to advance.
- From menu (1), select function "“Basic setting”" and press → key to advance.
- Press buttons 63 on keypad (1) to select "“Display group 063”" and confirm entry by pressing Q key.
- Activate basic setting by touching Activate key (A).
- Check display in zones (3) and (4).
- Fully depress accelerator pedal beyond kickdown point and keep it pressed.
- Check the readout in display zones (3) and (4). [Note: If display shows "“Kickdown ERROR”": interrogate event memory."“ERROR”" is indicated, for example, if the accelerator pedal is not pressed immediately after requested by the tester or if the accelerator pedal is released before the adaption process is finished. Exit function "“Basic setting”" by pressing ← key and restart adaption.]
- Exit function "“Basic setting”" by pressing the ← key.
- Select function "“End output”".
- Switch off ignition and unplug diagnostic connector.
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Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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