Quite embaressing to say the least.
C6 paddle shifters
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Cruising
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C6 paddle shifters
Drove today,let's just say aggressively. Paddle shifters stuck in 2nd-wouldn't move to 1st or 3rd. Shifted to drive and car reacted normally. After a few minutes shifters working fine. 20 minutes later, same problem, stuck in 2nd...again corrected itself in a few minutes. On the way home on highway, tried shifting from drive down to use paddles, but nothing happened...didn't even show the numbers. Twenty minutes later, everything was fine again.
Is there some software problem? It's shifting fine in drive, no trans hesitation or any other visible sign. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Is there some software problem? It's shifting fine in drive, no trans hesitation or any other visible sign. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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St. Jude Donor '13
Just a remote possibility-
I've been told that the tranny won't take a paddle upshift if either traction control or the rev limiter is holding back the engine. Could also be true if Active handling is at work. No personal experience there, and not sure if that affects the paddle Downshifting.
But it sounds like you were driving normally when the problems recurred, so that would be a whole different story.
No info in your Profile-
what year do you have, and any mods?
I've been told that the tranny won't take a paddle upshift if either traction control or the rev limiter is holding back the engine. Could also be true if Active handling is at work. No personal experience there, and not sure if that affects the paddle Downshifting.
But it sounds like you were driving normally when the problems recurred, so that would be a whole different story.
No info in your Profile-
what year do you have, and any mods?
Thread Starter
Cruising
Joined: Sep 2011
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Just a remote possibility-
I've been told that the tranny won't take a paddle upshift if either traction control or the rev limiter is holding back the engine. Could also be true if Active handling is at work. No personal experience there, and not sure if that affects the paddle Downshifting.
But it sounds like you were driving normally when the problems recurred, so that would be a whole different story.
No info in your Profile-
what year do you have, and any mods?
I've been told that the tranny won't take a paddle upshift if either traction control or the rev limiter is holding back the engine. Could also be true if Active handling is at work. No personal experience there, and not sure if that affects the paddle Downshifting.
But it sounds like you were driving normally when the problems recurred, so that would be a whole different story.
No info in your Profile-
what year do you have, and any mods?
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10
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St. Jude Donor '13
I heard it also limits automatic shifting, but perhaps not as much. It will be nice to hear what his tranny temps were, if he happened to look at them.
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From: Woodlands TX
I have read about this problem a few times on here, so now I try to watch my trans temps when I play with the paddles.
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From: flowery branch ga.
I had the same problem until Chuck COW tuned my car at Carlisle. Problems went away, car runs great and the best money I;ve spent since I've owned the car. He's been tough to get a hold of lately due to computer problems, but you may want to try him.
Good luck
Good luck
Pro
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From: Houston TX
Are you in the default driving mode with all the crutches enabled? I drive primarily in competitive mode (two quick button pushes) and have never had an issue with stalled shifting with the paddles on my 08. I agree with the transmission temps though, especially if you were driving pretty spirited.
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '10
They're electronic, try removing and cleaning the contacts. Or maybe you've just got a bad paddle.
I have had this issue, but was with aftermarket F1-style paddles. Swapped it and all is well.
I have had this issue, but was with aftermarket F1-style paddles. Swapped it and all is well.
1st Gear
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I have experienced this many times. It's just the car doing it's job. I gotta say id rather get a little loose than redline like It does,It's quite embarrassing. Just flip it into competition mode and you can tear it up without getting stuck in 1/2gear.
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08-'09-'10-'12-'13-'14
We're back online!
Thank for the PLUG!
YES, MY A6 tune will fix quite a number of problems with the A6 transmission.
Give us a call any time.
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From: va
I know what youre talking about - try doing a 180 or intentionally sliding into a corner (with the system on) and it takes over like making you look like a sissy and an unskilled driver.
Its like it will turn in and then it lets go of all the power (throttle cutoff) then wants to load the power back up after waiting a second or two (which ends up feeling like an eternity when your adrenaline is going)
makes you look like you spun out, got scared and stopped, then wanted to run off...
GM should have put the more aggressive ah/tc system in all the models. It would be nice to slide the car for fun without having to turn the ah ALL the way off...
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From: va
sometimes ah systems are just aggressive in terms of their understeer during a turn as well - like when you need just a little bit of rotation mid turn
there needs to be a way to control this for different situations
I believe the ZR1/Z07 performance tcs/ah system is supposed to help to address these problems. The C7s will probably all come with the nicer system - I hope.
Last edited by el es tu; Oct 12, 2011 at 05:28 PM.
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From: Petal MS
Hey guys are you just out on the road having a little fun around town or you on a race course? I made the trip to the lsx shootout this past weekend to do a little drag racing with mine and learned alot what not to do with the A6. Just drag racing i cut all the ah/tc off put the trans in sport mode and haul ***. Did 2 back to back passes within 15 minutes of each other and ran very consistant just like a bracket car 12.824 et first pass and 12.847 et second pass all in the heat of the day 82 deg. in Indy. The trans shifts alot firmer. Prior to these two runs my times were all over the board. I learned this from a guy who races a 2010 camaro A6, said the paddle shifter is very unreliable it sort of has a mind of it's own.
I tried using the paddle shift at the Holley ls fest back last month, trans not hot left the line shifted to 2nd at 6500 worked great i thought
then computer decided to shift to 3rd at 4500, messed my run up went way slow. Car ran a best of 12.712 et this weekend after the addition of the halltech superbee, picked up 2 miles per hour in the 1/4 after I did the ram air mod on each side of the filter.
I tried using the paddle shift at the Holley ls fest back last month, trans not hot left the line shifted to 2nd at 6500 worked great i thought
then computer decided to shift to 3rd at 4500, messed my run up went way slow. Car ran a best of 12.712 et this weekend after the addition of the halltech superbee, picked up 2 miles per hour in the 1/4 after I did the ram air mod on each side of the filter.
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From: va
Hey guys are you just out on the road having a little fun around town or you on a race course? I made the trip to the lsx shootout this past weekend to do a little drag racing with mine and learned alot what not to do with the A6. Just drag racing i cut all the ah/tc off put the trans in sport mode and haul ***. Did 2 back to back passes within 15 minutes of each other and ran very consistant just like a bracket car 12.824 et first pass and 12.847 et second pass all in the heat of the day 82 deg. in Indy. The trans shifts alot firmer. Prior to these two runs my times were all over the board. I learned this from a guy who races a 2010 camaro A6, said the paddle shifter is very unreliable it sort of has a mind of it's own.
I tried using the paddle shift at the Holley ls fest back last month, trans not hot left the line shifted to 2nd at 6500 worked great i thought
then computer decided to shift to 3rd at 4500, messed my run up went way slow. Car ran a best of 12.712 et this weekend after the addition of the halltech superbee, picked up 2 miles per hour in the 1/4 after I did the ram air mod on each side of the filter.
I tried using the paddle shift at the Holley ls fest back last month, trans not hot left the line shifted to 2nd at 6500 worked great i thought
then computer decided to shift to 3rd at 4500, messed my run up went way slow. Car ran a best of 12.712 et this weekend after the addition of the halltech superbee, picked up 2 miles per hour in the 1/4 after I did the ram air mod on each side of the filter.
We are only allowed to talk about race course driving on this website. Otherwise we have to pretend we bought the cars because they look nice.
If you talk about speeding, 3 to 5 people will get a few negative comments in complaining about your post before a moderator locks the thread out and threatens you.
Its happened to quite a few people, and never ends nice. So no, we (CF members) never drive fast on the street...
The fact that you can be that consistent (with the electronic nannies off) is a good thing. Many people cant launch a car without some sort of help.
Aside from drag racing, you should try some autox and hpd events as well - taking turns at high speed in these cars is too much fun to miss!
Last edited by el es tu; Oct 13, 2011 at 07:51 AM.
