julians said:
Whats EDS?
I find the traction control the most intrusive at the moment, at least it feels like its traction control, its something cutting the power when I dont want it to.
I can see something like the electronic diff lock being quite useful in most situation, if it genuinely does give an effect similar to a limited slip diff.
I've never owned a car with any sort of traction control/stability system/any sort of electronic driver aids, and I'm finding it quite unnerving not being able to work out for myself how the car behaves under stress.
EDS is what prevents you from drifting or doing doughnuts with your S3.
EDS - Elektronische Differenzialsperre should be EDL in english.
Electronic Differential Lock.
I´d say that most the complaints about the S3 not behaving as a "real 4WD" is due to the fact that you´re unable to deactivate EDS.
I managed to disable it once though, after reading in the owners manual that EDS uses the brakes to control wheelspin it automatically disables when the breaks reaches X degrees (not to overheat discs and the pads).
After reading this I tried to overheat the breaks and went well*.
Although I had to get a new set of tires after.
Anyhow.. when you overheat the breaks DIS says "ESP ERROR - SEE OWNERS MANUAL"
And the car works just as you want it to. No intervention from any system.
Just pure power directly to the weels (haldex working as it was ment to).
IMO the S3 have enough power to drift both on dry and wet asphalt.
But Audi don´t seem to want us to drift with our cars.
At the same time showing drift testdrives at Nurnburgring with the new RS6, that´s hypocrisy.
*This was a really STUPID thing to do and I couldn´t recomend anyone else trying. But I don´t have respect for material things. To me it´s nothing more than a car and cars are ment to have fun with and to be wrecked sooner or later.
