Performing kick-down adaption - vehicles with automatic gearbox — AUDI
Performing kick-down adaption - vehicles with automatic gearbox on Audi: 10 steps, engines AEH, AGN, AGU, AJQ.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A3 (8L, 1996–2003)
📋 Procedure
- Switch on ignition.
- Select Vehicle self-diagnosis from the list (item 1).
- From menu (1), select vehicle system "“Engine electronics”" and press → key to continue.
- From menu (1), select diagnosis function "“Basic setting”" and press → key to continue.
- Press keys 63 on keypad (1) to select "“Display group 063”" and confirm entry by pressing Q key.
- Check display in display zones (3) and (4).
- Fully depress accelerator pedal beyond kickdown point and keep it pressed. [Note: If the display shows "“Kickdown ERROR”": interrogate fault 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.]
- Press ← key to terminate function "“Basic setting”".
- From menu (1), select function "“End output”" and press → key to continue.
- 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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