So managed to have my valves unplugged today on my FL. I am potentially the least mechanically-minded person so I thought why do it myself whenever I could have someone do it for me who knows what they’re doing.
Took it down to the local Tuners and had them take them out and secure them etc. Also played with the ECU to ensure no error codes were generated.
Initially I turned the car off and they carried it out, they completed the job and revved the car only for me to realise oh s**t that sounds like it’s in comfort...oops. So take II we started the car, cycled it round to dynamic so that the valves were open and both sides disconnected while it was in dynamic.
So from what I can understand at the moment- and this is only a few hours in. It does seem a little bit louder, I have had the windows down and can’t hear the valves opening and closing the way you would in stop-start traffic. I did take it up through my local town and gave it the beans in manual and Jesus Christ it is loud especially with the noise reverberating off buildings.
Also the engine note sounds the same as dynamic in comfort and auto now but without the pops and crackles, these still remain in dynamic. However I’ve noticed the car doesn’t have the same ‘rumble’ that was emitted from the exhaust whenever you cycled round to dynamic, i very much enjoyed that noise as it was the quintessential 5 pot warble. Would it be interested to hear if others have noticed this (AudiNutta looking at you for this one).
Very much looking forward to my first cold start...