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      03-25-2020, 02:55 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by TheRetroGuy View Post
I could be wrong here, but my understanding that switching from comfort to sport (without adaptive) does in fact modify the damper response. The difference in adaptive (as I understand it) is that it uses a combination of your current driving conditions/style and even navigation data to determine what that damper response should be -- so it's basically comfort biased and will take bumps soft by default, but uses the feel of the road to keep the car more level, and or detects taking a winding exit to keep the car from rolling, etc. Whereas the other two modes are just static, either sport (stiff) or comfort (soft).
If you didn't opt for adaptive suspension, you don't get the "adaptive" button. It's a completely fixed suspension with a single spring/dampening rate.
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