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I’ve been an owner of a 2008 R8 for just over 6 months now and done just over 5000 miles, it’s an LS2 auto. I absolutely love it and it’s a fabulous car.
Couples of things though and just wondered if anyone had any advice……I’ve noticed that when on full power pulling away from stationary that more often than not when it reaches the red line its not always changing up to 2nd gear cleanly, it will just hit the red line and sort up max out and only change up to 2nd if I lift off power, noticed same sometimes when going 2nd to 3rd. If I flip over to sport and manually change up on the red line its fine but I guess that’s because it’s not going as deep into the red line area and I'm telling it to change.
Also, I find when just driving around normally sometimes 30-40mph its goes to kick down to a lower gear (4th to 3rd) that the power briefly cuts out for a second while it thinks about what it’s doing? That’s probably more annoying as you end up jerking forward everytime.
I don’t think this should be normal behaviour, I tend to just drive around using manual sport now to avoid the issues above which is fine. It’s due it’s 50000 mile Service in a few months time, I will probably use picador as most local, anyone any ideas or experience of this?
Cheers
Justin
Couples of things though and just wondered if anyone had any advice……I’ve noticed that when on full power pulling away from stationary that more often than not when it reaches the red line its not always changing up to 2nd gear cleanly, it will just hit the red line and sort up max out and only change up to 2nd if I lift off power, noticed same sometimes when going 2nd to 3rd. If I flip over to sport and manually change up on the red line its fine but I guess that’s because it’s not going as deep into the red line area and I'm telling it to change.
Also, I find when just driving around normally sometimes 30-40mph its goes to kick down to a lower gear (4th to 3rd) that the power briefly cuts out for a second while it thinks about what it’s doing? That’s probably more annoying as you end up jerking forward everytime.
I don’t think this should be normal behaviour, I tend to just drive around using manual sport now to avoid the issues above which is fine. It’s due it’s 50000 mile Service in a few months time, I will probably use picador as most local, anyone any ideas or experience of this?
Cheers
Justin
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