MY19.5 162Tsi Highline - Low speed gearbox knocking is reverse/switching

[phonebooth]

If reversing up a hill for parking etc, even driving up a hill slowing use the 'Auto Hold' as this will hold the transmission when you come off the throttle and stop the clicks and clunks of the DSG.

I have this activated in my car all the time, it only holds if you apply the brake and come to a complete stop. Not when you're jockeying the throttle trying to crawl/reverse up a slope.

[Simonr23]

Reversing up any slope is the one thing I find truly bad with DSG. If I’m going up my slightly uphill and straight driveway, forwards is fairly controllable and allows me to be mechanically sympathetic.

Reverse had the clutch slip to all hell and then Suddenly (and hard to predict when) lurch forwards, further/farther than I want.


I’m not a fan of auto-hold, in most driving conditions. It feels very harsh as the car takes off from it. I wish it could release the brake pressure and then apply throttle.

I use TJA a lot, so am exposed to auto-hold each day to/from work in peak-hour traffic.

Must be putting extra stress on clutch, and the rest of the driveline.

[PDMJO]

Reversing up any slope is the one thing I find truly bad with DSG. If I’m going up my slightly uphill and straight driveway, forwards is fairly controllable and allows me to be mechanically sympathetic.

Reverse had the clutch slip to all hell and then Suddenly (and hard to predict when) lurch forwards, further/farther than I want.


I’m not a fan of auto-hold, in most driving conditions. It feels very harsh as the car takes off from it. I wish it could release the brake pressure and then apply throttle.

I use TJA a lot, so am exposed to auto-hold each day to/from work in peak-hour traffic.

Must be putting extra stress on clutch, and the rest of the driveline.

Through OBDeleven you can modify the amount of 'hold' the Auto Hold does. By default it's set to medium.

[Simonr23]

Yeah, I’ve already set mine to the lowest of the options.

It seems to be programmed to have a minimum level (the obd11 setting) but brake pressure as the car stops overrides that setting.

Even on low, and stopping with the bare minimum to disengage the clutches, it’s too severe when taking off. It waits for the engine to load up the drivetrain before releasing the brake pressure.

[iDiesel]

Even on low, and stopping with the bare minimum to disengage the clutches, it’s too severe when taking off.

I used it for the first 4-5 months after getting the car, but the severe release on take off ended up putting me off

I use TJA a lot, so am exposed to auto-hold each day to/from work in peak-hour traffic.

I find TJA more sympathetic for brake release and 1st->2nd gear change

[Simonr23]

Maybe the diesel has a smidge more off-idle torque and makes the feeling worse? Past idle I know the petrol has more torque, but just spit-balling the idea.

[iDiesel]

You have the diesel?
I have the TSi

[Simonr23]

Yeah 140tdi

[mattdoyle81]

Same problem with mine, TSi. It’s really frustrating hearing it all the time, but as others have said, its just normal.

That and the soft clunk/thud you hear when you hit a bump more so at low speed, Ive also been told thats normal too. Just lots of noises to try and ignore.


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[Wolfsburger]

My 162 Tig had the same noises. 3 seperate times I took a mechanic for a drive, each time. “Yeh normal”.
For a 60k car, that ain’t normal. Next time the car was serviced I was told the gearbox was rat****. (8000klms) warrantied a brand new DQ500, not fixed, replaced. My car no longer makes the same ****ty, rattling noises at low speed change down or pulling into driveways/reversing.