Q: Car lurches when I’m about to come to a complete stop but not if I go into neutral before applying brakes

asked by on October 07, 2017

I recently purchased this Passat and I’ve noticed that when I’m slowing down and about to come to a complete stop the car kind of lurches. This does not happen if I’m using tiptronic mode or if I put it in neutral. The car always up shifts smoothly and downshifts smoothly in all other gears until I’m about to stop which I suspect is it shifting into first poorly

My car has 105623 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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