Flooring

**Pureaudi** · 07-23-2004 10:29 AM

I have a 97 a4 1.8tQ auto w/o tip. i noticed when i floor the gas there is a button at the end of the trow. what dose that do? will it make any difference if i floored it and pressed the button or just floored it all the way before the button? thanks

-DEx

**Devious27t** · 07-23-2004 10:39 AM

Originally posted by Pureaudi
I have a 97 a4 1.8tQ auto w/o tip. i noticed when i floor the gas there is a button at the end of the trow. what dose that do? will it make any difference if i floored it and pressed the button or just floored it all the way before the button? thanks

-DEx

its for the nitro boosters that come stock on the automatics.... the pop out of the trunk and send you into oblivion.

**Pureaudi** · 07-23-2004 10:43 AM

hahahaha

**jefferson88** · 07-23-2004 10:48 AM

sounds like an overdrive button.... its for cruising on the highway and saves you gas mileage.

**Pureaudi** · 07-23-2004 11:02 AM

no its something else. thats a stupid place for an overdrive button. Dose anybody really know what it is? or what it dose?

**A4Jon1.8t** · 07-23-2004 11:41 AM

I have the same thing on my 2000 with Tip. If you press down to the button it will drop a gear or two and take off. If you go past the button it will drop into the lowest gear possible, without damaging the engine.

**Pureaudi** · 07-23-2004 12:05 PM

thats weird, cuz thats not always "power effective" if you rev uip to like 5.5k rpms, cuz the powerband is not there. i was checking my oil and i wanted to see if when i pressed the button the engen would move or sumthin (enine was off). so i pressed it and there was this cord going to the throttle body and at the end was a little spring looking thing that compressed when the button depressed. what is that little button at the end of the gas pedal throw for?

**xaudia4driverx** · 07-23-2004 12:17 PM

I think its the "kick down" feature dropping it into a lower gear to haul a$$ I havent tried it yet. Will report back later on.

**jefferson88** · 07-23-2004 12:28 PM

sounds like it would be useful for passing someone on the highway or a similar situation...

**Pureaudi** · 07-23-2004 12:36 PM

when you try it out tell me. thanks

**markc** · 07-23-2004 10:58 PM

In the UK it's known as a "sport" button, it just drops the car a gear when you're already moving, or it makes the engine go high in revs from a standing start ( just like when us manual owners redband our cars).

**1Reidiculus-A4** · 07-23-2004 11:29 PM

whats a trow?

**Pureaudi** · 07-23-2004 11:36 PM

*throw, sorry

**unknownvirus** · 07-24-2004 08:37 AM

hahahah being non tip sux
theres only a few of us too i think

**audispeed** · 07-24-2004 10:01 AM

I had heard that it detects when the car is at WOT and uses a completely different fuel map then when the car is at partial throttles. If I remember correctly it causes the car to run richer at WOT. There was a guy with a tip who had this button malfunction and always be engaged and it was causing his car to always run rich until he fixed it.