General Maintenance & Repairs - 01 SS problems.... please help!!

Here is the laydown... i own a 2001 a4 SS. When the car kicksdown into second gear (when trying to get on a freeway or pass a car n such) everything is fine until it goes to shift into third. Once the vehicle shift into third it falls on its face, no check engine lights, nothing comes up with a scanner, it is really weird. If u floor the vehicle from a dig all is well. It will shift and perform through every gear flaswlessly until u let off. It is only when up shifting from a kick down back into third. The vehicle feels as if all of a sudden u have let off the throttle and wants to go no where. If i back pedal on it a couple times it suddenly wakes up and kicks back into the power.... This whole situation leaves me puzzled :confused:

The car is bone stock with only a lid and a k&n... i have tried cleaning my

MAF thinking that could be a problem, as well as the entire air intake sysltem.

I have also changed the inline fuel filter thinking it may have been plugged still no results.

Has anyone ever heard of this problem or had a simmular encounter :confused:

Thank you for your time.... please let me know :confused:

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Has the car always done this? Or did it start after a recent mod/change/repair?

Could be a torque management issue.

You say you have scanned the car, does your scanner have the ability to show timing advance in real time? I'd say to log your timing and see if it goes negative when the issue is occuring. TM pulls timing between WOT gear shifts to soften the blow to the trans, and it should only last for a breif moment at the time of the shift. However, some people have seen TM continue to pull timing well after the upshift causing that "falling flat on your face" or "brick wall" effect. Usually that seems to happen after a shift kit install or when a higher stall TC is installed. Seems that the '01+ cars have more issues with TM in my experiance.

Try doing some research in the PCM section, trying searching Torque Management as the subject and you should have some additional reading to do.

PS. Custom tuning is required to remove/reduce TM.

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Has the car always done this? Or did it start after a recent mod/change/repair?

Could be a torque management issue.

You say you have scanned the car, does your scanner have the ability to show timing advance in real time? I'd say to log your timing and see if it goes negative when the issue is occuring. TM pulls timing between WOT gear shifts to soften the blow to the trans, and it should only last for a breif moment at the time of the shift. However, some people have seen TM continue to pull timing well after the upshift causing that "falling flat on your face" or "brick wall" effect. Usually that seems to happen after a shift kit install or when a higher stall TC is installed. Seems that the '01+ cars have more issues with TM in my experiance.

Try doing some research in the PCM section, trying searching Torque Management as the subject and you should have some additional reading to do.

PS. Custom tuning is required to remove/reduce TM.