I have a CETE valve controller, and recently took it off to try and diagnose an electrical issue I was having (which was unrelated), and ran the car for the first time in over a year without it, and realised how bizarre the drive modes are on our cars.
As I understand it, the car will either always start up in Comfort mode, or close the valves just after start up regardless which mode it is last in, but I'm not sure which.
With the valve controller of course it stays open or shut depending which mode you are in, so I hadn't thought much about this until I took it off, but my question is this:
If the car is not really in dynamic or individual mode when it is started, and is in comfort mode, and we have to cycle back round to the desired mode to get the full fat performance settings we want, then with a valve controller, so we still need to do this or not? If so, the controller is a bit of a gimmick, and it also means I've been driving around in comfort mode for a year with the valves open! I've spoken to CETE and they tell me that the controller only controls the flaps and does not actually remember or retain the last drive mode, but they also said that the car is in dynamic if it says it is in dynamic, only the transmission in in D and not S, and the flaps closed.
So does anyone know which is correct? Is the car really in dynamic/individual when you start up, or is it in comfort mode and you have to cycle though to get back to dynamic performance?
I hope this makes sense...
As I understand it, the car will either always start up in Comfort mode, or close the valves just after start up regardless which mode it is last in, but I'm not sure which.
With the valve controller of course it stays open or shut depending which mode you are in, so I hadn't thought much about this until I took it off, but my question is this:
If the car is not really in dynamic or individual mode when it is started, and is in comfort mode, and we have to cycle back round to the desired mode to get the full fat performance settings we want, then with a valve controller, so we still need to do this or not? If so, the controller is a bit of a gimmick, and it also means I've been driving around in comfort mode for a year with the valves open! I've spoken to CETE and they tell me that the controller only controls the flaps and does not actually remember or retain the last drive mode, but they also said that the car is in dynamic if it says it is in dynamic, only the transmission in in D and not S, and the flaps closed.
So does anyone know which is correct? Is the car really in dynamic/individual when you start up, or is it in comfort mode and you have to cycle though to get back to dynamic performance?
I hope this makes sense...