DSG: Problems, Questions, Likes and Dislikes

**MkVIGTI** · 02-01-2011, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by rs73

For those who felt getting caught in 2nd and not dropping back when slowing down to re-accelerate, it only takes a moment of 'driving awareness' to just flick the steering wheel flappy paddle down to get that full control...

Or you can floor it

**SuperHans** · 02-01-2011, 12:17 PM

just to clarify, you can use the paddles even when not in triptonic mode?

so can you bump it up and down when in normal D or S mode?

**MkVIGTI** · 02-01-2011, 12:19 PM

That's correct. But if you use it in D and use the paddles, it will only temporarily go into manual mode. It will go back to D if you leave it for long enough.

**benjmin** · 02-01-2011, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by REXman

Yes thats exactly what I copped. Cruising at maybe 40-50 in 5th, go over a speed bump at maybe 30km/h.. and vrrrrroooooom, revs jump through the roof.

Hasnt happened again to me, but I gotta say, its not the safest thing in the world - probably worthy of a toyota recall

All jokes aside if that did happen in the wrong situation you could quickly find yourself in a really bad spot.

Have had my R for 12000 kms now and generally been qiute happy with it. The dsg box ,i must say ,has been dissapointing in D mode. I would say that i use the m mode 70-80% of the time. I had the overreving thing happen on 4 occassions and quickly took it back to the dealer. I am no mechanic/technitian but was told that this was a software problem and that VGA were aware of it. My car was left for the day, it supposedly had its software updated and I have not had a problem since! I dont think that it is in my head.
Why didnt I get a manual you ask?
1. The wife has my ex mark 5 GTI DGS which hangs onto the gears better ,i believe, than the R and I expected the same.
2. I sold my r36 dgs because i missed the golf and to be quite frank the dsg was never an issue in it
3. She loves to drive the R but cant drive a manual!!!!!!

**rs73** · 03-01-2011, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by MkVIGTI

That's correct. But if you use it in D and use the paddles, it will only temporarily go into manual mode. It will go back to D if you leave it for long enough.

Yes, a handy feature to overtaking manouvre....

or once you finished temporarily controlling the gear with the paddles, just hold the '+' paddle for a few seconds it will go back to 'D' again so you don't have to wait for the time delay to resume D...

**Capercat** · 03-01-2011, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by benjmin

Why didnt I get a manual you ask?
1. The wife has my ex mark 5 GTI DGS which hangs onto the gears better ,i believe, than the R and I expected the same.
2. I sold my r36 dgs because i missed the golf and to be quite frank the dsg was never an issue in it
3. She loves to drive the R but cant drive a manual!!!!!!

Can you not teach her how to drive manual? I've taught three women to drive manual & they have never looked back

**blutopless2** · 04-01-2011, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by rs73

For those who felt getting caught in 2nd and not dropping back when slowing down to re-accelerate, it only takes a moment of 'driving awareness' to just flick the steering wheel flappy paddle down to get that full control... just need to get used to it, not something that is worth whinging about and regreting the purchase decision.

that's fine if you have the paddles..... but more importantly i shouldnt have to intervene....

Originally Posted by rs73

DSG will shine if it's used properly... a car with manual gearbox does not make it a better car to drive if the driver is in the wrong gear.

used properly? isn't that what "D" is for?
when driving a manual I know what gear to be in.... why can't the computer figure it out? would this not represent a flaw in the programming?

**Corey_R** · 04-01-2011, 09:40 AM

There is no flaw in the programming. It's doing exactly what it's been told to do - which is provide the best economy possible.

I really don't understand what all the complaints are here. Didn't people test drive the cars before purchasing? Surely you would have noticed during the test drive that whilst in D, it shifts economically?

**weewilly** · 04-01-2011, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Corey_R

There is no flaw in the programming. It's doing exactly what it's been told to do - which is provide the best economy possible.

I really don't understand what all the complaints are here. Didn't people test drive the cars before purchasing? Surely you would have noticed during the test drive that whilst in D, it shifts economically?

this is going to be a topic of discussion for quite some time. I didn't pick it up during test drive, but I wasn't looking for this issue either. and even if i had, i would have still purchased the car. the gearing issue doesn't always manifest itself, sometimes shifting through the gears is seamless and acceleration is smooth as silk, other times I have to depress the accelerator three quarters way down to get the car moving when shifting into 5th and sixth gear. quite often the car will slow during the shifting process, this is an issue plan and simple. I've never driven a car with so LITTLE power. doesn't make sense and clearly there is an issue.
there should be an economy mode, which would be the 'D' mode we currently operate in. and of course keep the very aggressive 'S". there needs to be 'D+' mode. VW can still claim their 'green' ness and we won't waste valuable bandwidth.