Audi A7 Rear Spoiler

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soziblewuup

Original Poster:

5 posts

108 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Hi there, I bought an Audi A7 today. The inner child in me felt as though I needed the spoiler permanently raised on the way home (I personally think it looks better). I activated the manual override for the spoiler as instructed by the manual; however, once you reach 90mph (the speed the spoiler is automatically raised) the manual override light switches off. This means that in each instance you slow down to 40/50mph after reaching 90mph the spoiler is once again retracted, even though the manual override button was active before reaching 90mph.
Does anyone know why this happens? Or have a solution?
This is only a minor annoyance, but I'd be grateful for any help.

Rich_W

12,548 posts

211 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Probably the way it's designed. Probably need to get it programmed by a specialist rather than a dealer.

Also I suspect you probably will love this on the back




soziblewuup

Original Poster:

5 posts

108 months

Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Thanks for the information. Secondly, i'm not sure if that was meant to be a dig at me, but no I like the spoiler for the reason that it's subtle and adds to the curves of the car. The rear end just flows for me with the curved spoiler. But, as I said, it isn't an issue.

Thanks.

fatboy b

9,492 posts

215 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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I've learnt something new today. I always thought that everything behind the doors was the spoiler on the A7.

Dr G

15,159 posts

241 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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A7 is a strange choice for a track day car... wink

silentbrown

8,793 posts

115 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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Sorry, but I have to post this link:

http://cars.aol.co.uk/2012/01/19/audi-a7-long-term...

"What does that button do over there?"
"Lifts the spoiler."
"Can I touch it?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Because a spoiler is not a fashion accessory."
"Then why put the button there?"
"..."
"Well..."
"Get out of my Audi."

soziblewuup

Original Poster:

5 posts

108 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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I'm glad you've all managed to weigh in with your anti-spoiler opinions. I thought i'd sign up to this forum for some simple technical, objective advice on something i was curious about. I didn't want the car police to give me their subjective opinion on whether they liked it or not.
Anyway, have a good day!

silentbrown

8,793 posts

115 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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soziblewuup said:
I didn't want the car police to give me their subjective opinion on whether they liked it or not.
Sorry about that. You get that for free here. (And we were polite about it compared to Chris Harris).

I think there's no VCDS coding on spoiler behaviour because it's a "safety feature". The only suggestion I have is to locate the fuse and remove it with the spoiler up, or some similar bodge.

soziblewuup

Original Poster:

5 posts

108 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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Thanks for the response. Yeah I'm not that bothered about it to start messing around with stuff. I'll just keep it in automatic mode then.

s4tronic

245 posts

125 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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well one solution would be to drive below 90mph.....

soziblewuup

Original Poster:

5 posts

108 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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s4tronic said:
well one solution would be to drive below 90mph.....
True, but where's the fun in that! biggrin

rich83

14,193 posts

137 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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Put it up and then take the fuse out?

MrTickle

1,825 posts

238 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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In answer to the 'why does it have a button' as an ex-A7 and 911 driver which all have had button/speed lifted spoilers - I had always assumed the button was there purely to enable you to clean under the spoiler when washing the car.

I have never felt the need to raise the spoilers at 30mph as there is no benefit to the car and it will only cause more drag.

Interesting a Veyron has the opposite option for good reason, you can (with a key) lock the spoiler down to enable the car to go faster (reducing drag) - not so good in corners but enables higher top speed - take from that as you will hehe


KungFuPanda

4,324 posts

169 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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Probably urban folklore but the manual override button is there so that if the plod see the spoiler up and know it pops up at a certain speed, you can simply say you used the manual override to raise the spoiler rather than that you were traveling over a certain speed.

mobilejo

16 posts

103 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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I know this is an old thread but I thought I would post the solution for googlers that come across it.

Rear spoiler deactivation - I have left mine activated as standard but I wanted to adjust the activation/deactivation speeds which I cannot find a solution to. However while experimenting I found that it looks like it is possible to deactivate it completely with no error lights on the dash. I tested it on my road and no errors appear, but as I have left mine as standard I don't know what will happen once the key speeds are hit. I would assume nothing, but try at your own risk obviously.

If deactivated whilst in the up position, it stays up. If deactivated whilst down, it stays down.

To do it, simply untick the box that says "rear spoiler installed" in the long coding helper in both module 17-instruments (byte 5 bit 1) and also in module 46-central conv. (byte 6 bit 7)

mobilejo

16 posts

103 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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Sorry, the above is done in VCDS aka Vag Com.