What’s your daily settings -- drive mode, chassis, ride height, recuperation?

[freinando]

I’ll start.

Drive mode: Normal - just because I don’t want to hear the transmission doing its shenanigans

Chassis: Sport - goldilocks for me. Never normal, just too soft. Sometimes Sport+ when I feel like I want to feel her bounce.

Ride height: Lowered - less wheel gap than Normal, and more peace of mind with scrapes because with Low I’ve had a few of those already.

Recuperation: On - predictable deceleration on lift. Off feels just weird. Auto is a different kind of weird where I feel I have no control about what the car is about to do.

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[KLHubb]

Normal most of the time.
Ride height normal...l broke a wheel on a pot hole on low, and thus avoid it.
I coast exclusively....I find it most efficient....recover energy with the brakes when slowing.
To extend range, I avoid accessories when possible...winter conditions consume lots of energy.

 

[sveinaan]

Sport+. Winter = Individual (Sport+ with normal ridehight.) This is a Porsche. When driving longer trips, and in winter with bad road conditions, I usualy use Normal.

 

[tonykara]

Do your setting remain consistent when you enter and exit? I’ll get in and set it up the way I want and then the following day they are back to something else.

 

[Jasper4S]

Normal with stock settings for me. When I need range I turn the airco to "eco".

When stuck in traffic I use Sport Plus to show off the amazing lowered look and the ACC is more aggresive so it follows the traffic better.

 

[MrJones02]

Drive mode: Normal
Chassis: Normal
Level: Usually lowered, I don't like the gap in normal.
Recuperation "on" ... I never got used to the coasting, really sucks the car doesn't remember the setting you like/last used.

 

[freinando]

Do your setting remain consistent when you enter and exit? I’ll get in and set it up the way I want and then the following day they are back to something else.

The ride height and chassis settings remain unchanged for me. The only thing that resets is the drive mode, which defaults to Normal, and recuperation, which defaults to off. Since I usually just drive in Normal anyway, the only thing I have to change when I get in the car is the recuperation setting, but that’s easy with the steering wheel button.

The only time the settings reset is if I flick to Sport+, which puts the car in the lowest and hardest suspension setting. After restarting, it goes back to the settings that were used in Normal (lowered and Sport chassis for example).

 

[jkoya]

My settings stay in normal as it is being driven to Costco and Home Depot most of the time. I do switch to "Gravel" mode to prevent scraping when leaving parking lots with steeper exits.

 

[KensingtonPark]

My Individual (Daily) is set to:

Driver Mode: Normal
Chassis: Sport
Height: Lowered

I've done it this way for the last four years. I love it!

 

[gnr3312]

My Normal setting had the chassis set to Sport+ when I got the vehicle from the dealership, but after a recent chassis error it defaulted back to “normal”. What are the actual standard Normal driving settings?

 

[Fish Fingers]

Its a brave choice on most UK roads going Low or Lowered ride height, once you are aware of the 3mm battery cover achilles heel.
Too many speed bumps etc.

Hence, when I had my Taycan I used to just stick with Normal ride height and Sport chassis with Auto regen.

 

[Tango22]

2024 J1.1 GTS Sport Turismo.

Drive mode: Normal, although I will switch to Sport+ if I’m stuck behind dawdling traffic for slightly speedier overtakes. I rarely use Range mode as for the sake of an extra 10 miles or so, it seems kinda pointless.

Chassis: Normal. I find in this mode, these cars are incredibly comfortable even on the awful UK roads we have to put up with. For daily use, I wouldn’t rate Sport or Sport+ as comfortable enough on the roads I drive on regularly. Lots of speed bumps around where I live too, and our driveway has quite an angle on it where it joins the street - even in normal I have to move very slowly at the transition between driveway and street and even then the collision sensors usually activate briefly in a panicky way! It’s not quite bad enough to use the ‘Lift’ mode though, thankfully.

Ride height: Normal, for reasons already detailed above regards UK road surfaces. Although I will admit to an element of vanity if I’m in slow moving traffic, I’ll drop into Sports+ so the ride height lowers for that awesome stance I also sometimes park up in Sports+ so the gap between tyres and wheel arches reduces!

Recuperation: Usually off, I find the Taycan coasts very well and a lot of my local roads lend themselves well to coasting. In slow traffic I’ll switch to Auto as it seems to aid distances between the vehicle in front without even having to switch ACC on.

Curious……does anyone use ‘Sport Individual’ to set up your settings in a more customised way? Been thinking of trying it out.

 

[chun]

National+autobahn
Drive mode: Normal
Chassis: sport
Level: lowered

City: all normal

 

[Al Faromeo]

All normal and I love recuperation off - only when in stop and start traffic do I set auto regen on.
Normal regen: never.

I love the default setting with no regen other than when braking.

 

[69Mach390]

Curious……does anyone use ‘Sport Individual’ to set up your settings in a more customised way? Been thinking of trying it out.

Yes.

I figured that’s what this thread was asking- what customized individual setting you use.

For me it’s sport with normal ride height and auto regeneration.

I much prefer the throttle response of 1st gear and don’t have to worry about scraping in a lowered stance.

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