T5 DSG dropping gear? WTF HELP?

[Foxpuppet]

The van is going to be there until next week or the week after. It's at around 54/5k with the warranty expiring in 2 days. Do you think I should get them to do the 60k service now while its just sitting there and get the filter changed at the same time?
that way I save myself another day off the road in 3 months or so getting the scheduled service and maybe find anything else wrong before the warranty expires.
Is that a bad idea as the following service will have the van doing 20k (54-75) rather than the 15k (60-75) interval? Or can the interval just be modified?

This really sucks... It's going to be almost a month by the time they have It back on the road.

[Umai Naa!!]

The van is going to be there until next week or the week after. It's at around 54/5k with the warranty expiring in 2 days. Do you think I should get them to do the 60k service now while its just sitting there and get the filter changed at the same time?
that way I save myself another day off the road in 3 months or so getting the scheduled service and maybe find anything else wrong before the warranty expires.
Is that a bad idea as the following service will have the van doing 20k (54-75) rather than the 15k (60-75) interval? Or can the interval just be modified?

This really sucks... It's going to be almost a month by the time they have It back on the road.

To do the Mechatronics, they'll have to dump the oil out of the DSG anyway. I'd be requesting the filter be replaced while they're doing it.

Plenty of people book their cars in for an end of warranty check-over. Sure, you'll probably pay for the inspection, but at least anything they might find will be covered.

[Sunny43.5]

If what you say is correct that due to the design then surely its another VW stuff up what's the point of the filter being placed there if it cannot be changed easily .

We've been over this a million times.

Volkswagen did not specify a service interval for the filter because there is a pipe in the way, that limits access to the filter housing, making replacement difficult and time-consuming.

[Golf Loon]

All DSG Gearboxes from VW have massive problems.

They can't sell any in Europe as all vans would be manual and most cars. Thus the research and development on them is limited as the send the to the colonies and so the problem is far away.

The problem is massive, but covered up at all levels. Vw replace mechatronics units, then gearboxes, then it's out if warranty, so tough poo.

i get a couple of people a week coming into my shop asking how they can make the box work well enough to sell the car because they are so over the problem. There is no easy answer.

The best solution is buy a manual one!

Big grunty diesel, big heavy van attached to a complicated electronic auto, what could possibly go wrong?

[Sunny43.5]

In answer Matt every thing can go wrong not like the good old days , I had a Valiant Wagon [who remembers them ] it was a 69 VF 318 fireball V8 with 3 speed auto , had that baby for over 6 years and 200.000 kays . Would sit at the lights with slight foot pressure on brakes and then just bury the right foot could burn off thousands of kays of rubber at a time and in all those years of abuse the auto did not hiccup once I miss the good old days . Try that today and it would be bye bye thousands of dollars in repairs .

[Golf Loon]

Yes but there was no electronics in the old autos. Lots of electronics, bathed in hot oil, slamming around under a big heavy van with tdi torque applied to everything. Sounds like an engineering nightmare doesn't it?

[IN2VWS]

All DSG Gearboxes from VW have massive problems.

They can't sell any in Europe as all vans would be manual and most cars. Thus the research and development on them is limited as the send the to the colonies and so the problem is far away.

The problem is massive, but covered up at all levels. Vw replace mechatronics units, then gearboxes, then it's out if warranty, so tough poo.

i get a couple of people a week coming into my shop asking how they can make the box work well enough to sell the car because they are so over the problem. There is no easy answer.

The best solution is buy a manual one!

Big grunty diesel, big heavy van attached to a complicated electronic auto, what could possibly go wrong?

Can you please elaborate on the massive problems with the DSG's in the Transporters?

[Sunny43.5]

Over to you Matt I have already been there with this one .

[Golf Loon]

Can you please elaborate on the massive problems with the DSG's in the Transporters?

They clunk, they slip, they judder, they fail electronically. Then they stop working.
Seen heaps of broken ones.
Let history be the judge, there won't be any ten year old auto t5s that still work.

[IN2VWS]

They clunk, they slip, they judder, they fail electronically. Then they stop working.
Seen heaps of broken ones.
Let history be the judge, there won't be any ten year old auto t5s that still work.

Thanks, not calling you a liar, but do you have proof of the T5.1 DSG failures. I need proof, or it didn't happen.
I know that the passenger cars have the problems you described.....but on Transporters???

You say you have seen heaps of Transporter DSG failures. They are only starting to come out of warranty recently.....so wouldn't they have gone to the dealers for warranty repairs?