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    Veteran Member Three Rings ywang98's Avatar
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    I agree that the DRC does very well on corners with body roll. It's like a super sway bar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ywang98 View Post
    I agree that the DRC does very well on corners with body roll. It's like a super sway bar.
    Same experience, on a nice flat road or race track the DRC performance on dynamic mode is asonishing!!!

    This and the possibility to ride much more comfortable than standard suspension, was the reason, why a picked up DRC over standard suspension. And I tested both cars properly, with and without DRC and made for me my conclusions.

    What I would recommend to everybody with a DRC is, to change out the DRC oil as a maintenance measure, as you change your engine oil. With use the DRC (any suspension oil) gets thinner and picks up impurities (metal particels from the suspension hydraulic, pistons etc.).
    In fact, old and dirty suspension oil has the nature to be thicker - compared to new oil - while being cold, to just being a lot thinner, while hot. Consequently with thinner oil your rebound gets faster, because of less dampening.

    I've changed my DRC oil out at 37'500 miles (60'000 kilometers) and the car felt, as if I had put in a brand new suspension set. I didn't experimented with thicker oil - as in the suspension area you have a ton of different oils (thicker, thinner etc.) - and put back in the OE one. But I was very surprised how much of a difference it made, altough I new it from my race motorcycles. But didn't expected that much of a difference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TJUNER_RS4 View Post
    Same experience, on a nice flat road or race track the DRC performance on dynamic mode is asonishing!!!

    This and the possibility to ride much more comfortable than standard suspension, was the reason, why a picked up DRC over standard suspension. And I tested both cars properly, with and without DRC and made for me my conclusions.

    What I would recommend to everybody with a DRC is, to change out the DRC oil as a maintenance measure, as you change your engine oil. With use the DRC (any suspension oil) gets thinner and picks up impurities (metal particels from the suspension hydraulic, pistons etc.).
    In fact, old and dirty suspension oil has the nature to be thicker - compared to new oil - while being cold, to just being a lot thinner, while hot. Consequently with thinner oil your rebound gets faster, because of less dampening.

    I've changed my DRC oil out at 37'500 miles (60'000 kilometers) and the car felt, as if I had put in a brand new suspension set. I didn't experimented with thicker oil - as in the suspension area you have a ton of different oils (thicker, thinner etc.) - and put back in the OE one. But I was very surprised how much of a difference it made, altough I new it from my race motorcycles. But didn't expected that much of a difference.
    So you are saying that there are different viscosity DRC oil (oil with magnetic particles for the electronic controlled shocks) available? If so, from Audi or after market?

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    Senior Member Three Rings dal59's Avatar
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    I spend 99% of the time with DRC in Auto and tranny in Sport and could not be happier. I never use Comfort and only use Dynamic when racing. However, I do not find any mode "bouncy".

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    Quote Originally Posted by ywang98 View Post
    So you are saying that there are different viscosity DRC oil (oil with magnetic particles for the electronic controlled shocks) available? If so, from Audi or after market?
    If you please read my post, you see, that I put back in OE oil! So, I don't have experience with different oil. As I understand the DRC system from the SSP, it's completely different than magnetic ride and has nothing to do with it.

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