Wife complained that VW was almost stalling out when coming to a stop and also when moving from a stop. I happened to be in the car with her when it happened again and it can best be explained as if it were a manual when first learning to drive. It's like coming to a stop and suddenly realizing that its a manual and you need to put the clutch in to keep it from stalling out, in other words I think the trans is staying in gear and not shifting to neutral properly. The tach drops from around 900 to 3 or 4 hundred then its like it goes up to normal after almost stalling out.
The car died completely coming to a stop about 3 months ago and the dealer put in a fuel relay and reset the throttle body. When I took it in this week they reset the adaptive trans by turning on the ign and holding the gas pedal to the floor for 5 secs then turning off ign and restarting. The car now downshifts hard when coasting to a stop, if braking its hard to tell the as the downshift is not as noticeable.
Car has 40,000 miles on it and has VW certified used car warranty. Is this a problem to be concerned about? How long does adaptive trans take to relearn. What is an adaptive automatic. I've never felt this kind of hard downshift in any automatic I've owned before. What next steps do I take since its under factory warranty? Dealer did a complete 40K service at 38,900 when I had last oil change. We've had car since about 34,600 with no prior trans shifting problem at all its been smooth as silk.