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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.

11 steps 40 engine codes engine codes merged from 2 documented variants

🧭 Before you start

Fits: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)

📋 Procedure

  1. Select Vehicle self-diagnosis from the list (item 1).
  2. From menu (1), select vehicle system "“Engine electronics”" and press → key to advance.
  3. From menu (1), select function "“Basic setting”" and press → key to advance.
  4. Press buttons 63 on keypad (1) to select "“Display group 063”" and confirm entry by pressing Q key.
  5. Activate basic setting by touching Activate key (A).
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  1. Check display in zones (3) and (4).
  2. Fully depress accelerator pedal beyond kickdown point and keep it pressed.
  3. 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.]
  4. Exit function "“Basic setting”" by pressing the ← key.
  5. Select function "“End output”".
  6. Switch off ignition and unplug diagnostic connector.

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Workshop data on this page last updated 20 Sep 2026.