
I hope I’ll enjoy this one.
Then I’ll check the Velar if I have enough money.
Hi Mig, you perfectly describe the difference between my car with AD & CD and the R Sport I have been driving for the last 3 weeks without AD.Mig wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:40 pmHi Snowman
Happy to share my thoughts.
I've tried another 20d R-Sport with AD (coming from the same dealer so most probably with the same piece of software) and it was behaving the same way as mine.
So to summarize:
AD in normal mode: ride is good on good roads. Every time I drove on a hole or a speed bump, the suspension hardened immediately and was harsh and then the car wallowed a lot too much. It's clearly unbearable for me. My head was hitting the door. I'm still not sure the suspension was behaving properly as it felt as if instead of stiffening it was being soft and the contrary: you hit a hole and the suspension gets hard and then becomes too soft making it wobbly. I also felt that the car was twisting when the holes were only on one side of the road.
AD in dynamic mode: suspension is subtly harder (really hard to feel a difference) than in normal mode but then the car is much less wobbly and is rolling much less in corners. I ended up driving only in this mode.
No AD: suspension is smoother and you don't feel holes and bumps as much as with the AD. There is not this "boom" when you drive on those irregularities.
It's rolling a bit more than with AD and there is a bit more rebound but I'm enjoying it a lot more.
I would have expected the AD in normal mode to be more comfortable than the suspension without AD and don't feel that much twist in dynamic mode. This is what you have with Porsche PASM and too me the AD software is just badly coded.
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