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that anybody needs to ask!People who put it into neutral I can almost understand - I suppose, just about. Nothing dangerous about it, just unnecessary.ebygum32 wrote: If the traffic lights are red i leave mine in park and put the handbrake on
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... highlight=patmckenna wrote:Hi Guys,
I had a phone call from a friend last night who told me that he just been Bongoed. Since he drives a VW Passat, I asked him to explain.
He was in a queue of traffic. Lo and behold, in front of him was a beautiful example of a Bongo. Oh, says he, that's one of those lovely Bongos Pat keeps shouting about. He admired its sleek lines and polished blackness.
Without warning, and for no known reason, the Bongo shot into reverse and demolished the front of the Passat, causing what may be terminal damage...
I wanted to explain to my friend that being Bongoed actually meant being recognised and pointed at/waved at hysterically - but decided that the time wasn't just right.
The Bongo chap 'held his hands up' to the misdemeanour and the insurance companies are busy talking to each other.
Next time I visit my friend in a little town not far from Blackburn, I'm travelling in the Aygo.
Pat McKenna
Wikipedia wrote:In 2000 Audi launched a new stepless transmission called multitronic. Based on the principles of Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) popularised by DAF, multitronic offers a stepless automatic transmission in which the ratio between the input shaft and output shaft can be varied continuously within a given range, providing a very large number of possible ratios. The multitronic system uses a chain-drive, an oil cooled multiplate clutch (initially of six parts, later of seven to enable it to cope better with the torque of larger turbodiesel engines, and complex electronics to overcome the traditional shortcomings of CVTs.
The transmission is monitored and regulated by Audi's Dynamic Regulating Program (DRP), which tracks the driver's inputs, driving conditions, and engine load to compute the optimal gear ratio for fuel efficieny or maximum performance, as mandated by the user. The transmission can select pre-programmed underdrive to increase performance, or overdrive to improve economy. From 2004 multitronic gearboxes offered manual selection of a sport mode to pre-select the performance mapping. The electronic system also includes sensors to detect whether the vehicle is traveling downhill and provides additional engine braking in such circumstances. Multitronic also offers a number of driver-selectable fixed rations, selectable from either the gear-lever in a sequential style, or via (optional) fingertip controls. Early versions offered 6 ratios, from 2004 this was increased to 7. Some A6 variants that feature the Multitronic gearbox are now equipped with the fingertip controls as standard. These controls can also switch to semi-automatic mode when one of the paddles is activated, however they revert to fully automatic after a few seconds.
Multitronic offers performance and economy similar, and in some cases better than, the equivalent six-speed manual gearboxes, and greatly superior to traditional geared automatic transmission. Particular performance advantages are noticed in 'in-gear' acceleration times over equivalent manual transmission cars.
Multitronic is offered on front wheel drive versions of the Audi A4 and Audi A6 It is not compatible with the quattro (all wheel drive system) or transverse engine in the Audi A3. At first the torque limit was 310Nm, but the gearbox is now modified to withstand 400Nm torque.
