On EDC17CP14 (and others I'm sure too) controllers, it appears it's reasonably common to disable non-fastpath, longterm torque interventions via CAN from the Transmission controller with this switch to prevent per-gear and other torque limitation by the transmission controller as there are limits applied via this. I'm not particularly knowledgeable with the Transmission software - my initial thoughts that people disabling this and selling tunes on DSG cars are pretty bold at best!

Are there any other side effects to having this disabled other than the obvious temperature & per-gear limitation by the Transmission controller - are there any other times there are interventions that obviously now don't work and are likely to cause ill effects or is this otherwise safe? Particularly in reference to DL501s, I can't believe it'd be preferable to decalibrate torque conversion on DSG boxes due to obvious side effects of this, but is this preferable? Obviously the best way is to remove the limit in the Trans controller, however seeing plenty of "tuners" getting around this, so I'm guessing they're either decalibrating, or switching Tra_SwtTraPrtInCAN_C.

Worse than I expected then

Thanks for the explanation.