Thread: Delay in power when accelerating from low speed

I've had this occasionally as well. I find it quicker to lift off the throttle for an instant and then re-apply. Less likely to shoot off into the distance too

Cheers,

Gordon

I have it on my D3. In the Touareg world we called it the lag of death. It seems to be a turbo diesel thing (although I didn't seem to experience it in the V10 ).

I fixed the problem to a large extent by chipping my Touareg. Just got to convince her-indoors that we need a chip. In the meantime, it's sports mode.

Bob

It doesn't seem to make any difference to the lag at low speed takeoff. Mind you, when it does wind up on that second turbo at 2000 revs, it goes like stink. Which can be a bit disconcerting in itself....
Greg

Originally Posted by gghaggis

I find it quicker to lift off the throttle for an instant and then re-apply.

It works like the old carby pumps - needs a couple of jabs!

It is a lot like when autos first were fitted to small engined cars - like morrises and 1000cc datsuns - you would floor it and nothing would happen until the revs built up a bit.

Keeping just a little power on coming into the roundabout or coming to red lights does help the problem in the RRS.

Garry

I hear what you are saying guys but the 3.0L in the D4 is supposed to spool in 500ms.....and we're talking 600nms to play with.....I'm thinking it's the auto "thinking", not the engine......

You're probably right about the 'thinking' gearbox. It's certainly not a lack of torque, mine's closer to 700nm since I had the ECU re-mapped in my 3.0L.

Originally Posted by GregMilner

You're probably right about the 'thinking' gearbox. It's certainly not a lack of torque, mine's closer to 700nm since I had the ECU re-mapped in my 3.0L.

Hi Greg,
Interested to know if you had the re-map done professionaly or did you somehow do it yourself?
Cheers, Craig