Just wondering if anyone else here has a Golf Mark6 118 tsi DSG with a rattling noise issue from the engine?

I think it's caused by the DSG being too enthusiastic about the higher gears (4, 5,6,7) and stubbornly remaining in 6 & 7 when the engine is only spinning 1,200 rpm... even on uphill gradients. This happened even during the initial 1,000 km run in period (which in hindsight I should have used my workaround)

I tried reproducing the rattling noise with the VW service guy, but of course the car had to behave itself during the demo drive

My "workaround" is to use the tiptronic to manually shift. Of course, I will always know better than the car when it comes to gear selection

The rattling sounds like any small capacity car that "struggles" when selecting an unreasonably high gear for the situation.

I think the only reason VW programmed the 7 speed DSG to allow the car into 7th gear at 1,200 rpm is due to the fact that 200nm of torque is meant to exist at that rev speed - but I think the revs are too low.