This might bore some, but I guarantee one or two people will find this interesting.<\/p>\n
My car is now over 7 years old, and approaching 100k miles. That’s not the magic figure it used to be, but you have to accept a few things will fail- so, outside of the consumables, I’ve had a (surprisingly pricey) gear lever, a similarly pricey blower motor<\/a>, a few suspension bushes, a dual-mass flywheel, and now, a sensor with a surprising symptom.<\/p>\n The surprising symptom was the DSG<\/a> gearbox getting increasingly reluctant to change up when in D (full-auto) mode, back in October. No codes stored, and a manual change avoided it.<\/p>\n The fear at this point is a mechatronics failure- the unit is pricey<\/a>, even refurbished, but that seems unlikely, given the change works manually, and a mechatronics failure is usally a bit more obvious.<\/p>\n Fortunately, someone had been here before, and I remembered his post on good old usenet, describing the symptoms, and dropped him an email. His answer:<\/p>\n \nI’ve got no fault codes but the symptoms sound a bit similar. In my case , the problem turned out to be a corroded sensor ring on one of the rear wheels.<\/p>\n Replacement wasn’t cheap though. It seems that wheel bearings etc also had to be replaced. Still, a lot cheaper than a gearbox repair.<\/p>\n For some reason the defective sensor input to the gearbox was screwing up it’s speed assessment but wasn’t triggering any warning lights.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Changing them isn’t cheap, as he said: a quality part is around \u00a3100, and the fault was very intermittent, so I left it, changing manually if needed. I had to wait until today- when the gearbox suddenly decided that 1st was appropriate at 15-20mph (1st being very, very low in DSG cars), got all confused, decided it wasn’t again, then; finally, lit up the ABS, stability control, and tyre pressure warning lamps, then drove normally. Code stored was:<\/p>\n 1 Fault Found: This is odd. ABS causes no upchange? Previous searching had thrown up this (read post number 4)<\/a>.<\/p>\n The gearbox, in collusion with the ABS and stability ECU, will refuse to change up if the speed signal from the rear wheels (which it gets over CANbus<\/a>) seems odd, or confuses it into thinking you’re cornering (because you don’t want an unexpected upchange half way around a corner). Sane enough, I suppose, but very unexpected, and, of course, not going to show up on a manual car- it seems the gearbox starts getting confused way before the ABS controller decides the input is dodgy, so a manual car would drive normally until the dash lights appeared.<\/p>\n This oddity is going to be common to cars on the PQ35 platform<\/a>– my correspondent above had a VW Touran:<\/p>\n Audi A3 Mk2 (8P) and maybe others, with a DSG gearbox and that design of rear hub (it seems the wheel bearing, sensor ring, and hub are one assembly).<\/p>\n It does say something (again) about the complex, networked nature of modernish cars. The concept of a sensor in the braking system affecting gearchange is a bit non-obvious, but when you have sensors there anyway, required for (legally mandatory) ABS, and a network to talk over, may as well use them, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This might bore some, but I guarantee one or two people will find this interesting. My car is now over 7 years old, and approaching 100k miles. That’s not the magic figure it used to be, but you have to accept a few things will fail- so, outside of the consumables, I’ve had a (surprisingly … Continue reading Braking the Gears<\/span>
\nAddress 03: ABS Brakes Labels: 1K0-907-379-MK60-F.lbl
\n Part No SW: 1K0 907 379 AA HW: 1K0 907 379 AA
\n Component: ESP FRONT MK60 0102
\n Revision: 00H13001
\n Coding: 0006786
\n Shop #: WSC 06441 785 00200
\n VCID: 71E3A0F868F54B966BD-8024<\/p>\n
\n00287 - ABS Wheel Speed Sensor; Rear Right (G44)
\n 003 - Mechanical Failure
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