- Fig. 1 Steering wheel: Paddle levers
Applies to Audi Q5s: with S tronic gearbox and tiptronic steering wheel
The paddle levers behind the steering wheel enable the driver to change gears manually.
Briefly pull the left-hand paddle lever --- to change down to a lower gear.
Briefly pull the right-hand paddle lever -+- to change up to a higher gear.
The paddle levers are activated when the selector lever is in position D or S, or the position for the manual shift programme (tiptronic). The paddle levers are deactivated again when the selector lever is moved from position D to position S (or vice versa).
The manual shift programme can, of course, still be operated using the selector lever in the centre console.
Note
When the selector lever is in position D or S, the system switches back to automatic mode if no paddle lever is operated within a certain period of time or the speed drops below 10 km/h.