How does a tune affect Drive Select?

[jtravis]

About to go stage 1. 2013 6MT

(no tuner vs. tuner talk in this thread unless it specifically pertains to Comfort vs. Dynamic modes)

Search the forums, couldn't find the exact answer.

Once tuned, how will the tune affect the throttle response in Comfort vs. Dynamic modes? Will Comfort mode still have less of a throttle response than Dynamic?

I ask because it's been a rough week at work and my entire body has been moving slow in the early mornings. I normally just set and forget my Drive Select to Dynamic, but when the old muscles aren't firing fast Comfort mode is so much easier to drive first thing in the morning.

[Helmet165]

Yes, comfort will still have less throttle response than dynamic. I really didn't feel tuning changed much regarding dynamic vs comfort. I've heard (and myself felt) that comfort seems especially doggy after you're tuned, but I honestly think it's more that dynamic is just way more....dynamic, so comfort feels....extra comfy

[jtravis]

Does a tune affect each of the Drive Select settings then? or just the Dynamic setting?

[jsh139]

I can only speak from my car (6MT) and tune (Stage 2 EPL) but there was definitely no change to any of the drive select characteristics.

[04v8s4]

I can only speak from my car (6MT) and tune (Stage 2 EPL) but there was definitely no change to any of the drive select characteristics.

Do you mean that changing the drive select from comfort to dynamic made no difference in response..etc? Or do you mean that it works just as it did before the tune? Comfort is softer and less responsive?

I’ve been wondering this too!

[jsh139]

Do you mean that changing the drive select from comfort to dynamic made no difference in response..etc? Or do you mean that it works just as it did before the tune? Comfort is softer and less responsive?

I’ve been wondering this too!

It works just as it did before. Comfort has less throttle response than Dynamic. Steering is lighter in Comfort, etc. The Individual settings still work. Nothing was changed, the car is just quicker, haha.

[dimonblr]

I did not notice any changes between what Drive Select does for throttle response and steering input with the APR Stage 1 ECU tune.

Comfort is what I keep my Drive Select in 98% of the time, and with that I still get early upshifts and comfortably soft steering. Dynamic stiffens up the steering and holds gears longer just as it did prior to flashing the ECU with an APR Stage 1 tune.

It is my basic understanding that the Stage 1 ECU tunes from any vendor will hold the wastegate closed longer to achieve increased performance, and do not have any direct affect on the Drive Select mechanism. The TCU tune may be a different story. I do not have that and cannot speak to it.

I don't even know what Dynamic would do for a MT S4 besides steering input stiffness.

[jsh139]

I did not notice any changes between what Drive Select does for throttle response and steering input with the APR Stage 1 ECU tune.

Comfort is what I keep my Drive Select in 98% of the time, and with that I still get early upshifts and comfortably soft steering. Dynamic stiffens up the steering and holds gears longer just as it did prior to flashing the ECU with an APR Stage 1 tune.

It is my basic understanding that the Stage 1 ECU tunes from any vendor will hold the wastegate closed longer to achieve increased performance, and do not have any direct affect on the Drive Select mechanism. The TCU tune may be a different story. I do not have that and cannot speak to it.

I don't even know what Dynamic would do for a MT S4 besides steering input stiffness.

It does everything it does in a DSG car, just nothing with the shift points :)

[JoeAWD]

I did not notice any changes between what Drive Select does for throttle response and steering input with the APR Stage 1 ECU tune.

Comfort is what I keep my Drive Select in 98% of the time, and with that I still get early upshifts and comfortably soft steering. Dynamic stiffens up the steering and holds gears longer just as it did prior to flashing the ECU with an APR Stage 1 tune.

It is my basic understanding that the Stage 1 ECU tunes from any vendor will hold the wastegate closed longer to achieve increased performance, and do not have any direct affect on the Drive Select mechanism. The TCU tune may be a different story. I do not have that and cannot speak to it.

I don't even know what Dynamic would do for a MT S4 besides steering input stiffness.

Doesn't the car rev match in dynamic mode on down shifts with a 6MT?

[dimonblr]

It does everything it does in a DSG car, just nothing with the shift points :)

Which is one of the four things it changes. 1 - Steering, 2 - shift points, 3 - fake sound, 4 - sports diff (if available). At least that's all I have as my car isn't optioned with the adaptive suspension.

Doesn't the car rev match in dynamic mode on down shifts with a 6MT?

Really?? That would be a neat feature.

[fmzip]

It works just as it did before. Comfort has less throttle response than Dynamic. Steering is lighter in Comfort, etc. The Individual settings still work. Nothing was changed, the car is just quicker, haha.

Exactly, same here EPL Stage 2

[hd1]

6MT with Stage 2, and no change with sports diff activated or not. I almost always leave in Dynamic because it feels faster due to more RWD.