[928uk] Kickdown confession

[Michael Parris]

Oh dear, glad you found the problem granny?

It's funny when engaging kickdown off a slow roundabout and it goes into
1st for all but a second before changing back up to 2nd.  That is until you
spin it.

Mike

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On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 10:58, Adrian Langford via 928uk <
928uk at lists.928.org.uk> wrote:

> It’s possible my kick down hasn’t been working in the way it’s designed
> for years, and I hadn’t realised!
>
> In my defence m’lud, all my cars have always been manual with the
> exception of my S4 and its predecessor. I’m not a heavy footed driver, but
> sometimes for the heck of it I’d mash the throttle pedal and the thing
> would kick down (especially after a JDS EZK remap early in my ownership,
> which made it more eager to change down). What I probably missed was that
> the transmission was simply changing down, not being forced into lower gear
> when the kick down button was operated.
>
> Somehow I’d noticed recently that pushing the throttle down slowly to the
> floor wasn’t resulting in kick down, so I burrowed into the footwell to
> find that at full throttle, the arm operating the button was just touching
> the button, but not able to depress it further to generate the electrical
> signal for kick down. The position of that arm is dictated by a simple
> threaded bar which connects the pedal to its bracket. After removing two
> bolts attaching pedal to floor, you can flip it round so as to disconnect a
> ball and socket joint attaching the pedal to the bracket. All I had to do
> was undo a locknut then adjust a nut to give the pedal a 1/2” or so extra
> travel.
>
> After refitting the pedal, she now kicks down in the correct way — when
> pushing pedal to floor then a bit further to operate switch. It can scare
> the daylights out of you in a good way!
>
> No idea how long it’s been like this. Maybe the ten years I’ve owned her?
> Feel a bit daft confessing this anyway.
>
> Mine can’t be the only 928 to have this misadjustment, so if you’re trying
> to puzzle out a kick down problem it may be worth checking if all operates
> mechanically as it should first!
>
> Adrian
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