Paddle shift is now an after sales option

[Lance B]

My local VW new car salesman told me that the paddle shift is now an after sales option for about a $grand$ for all DSG models. The new car salesman told me that they are in the country and ready for fitment.

Just been down to VW parts to order mine and they will contact me about it's cost and availability.

[R36 Dreamer]

My local VW new car salesman told me that the paddle shift is now an after sales option for about a $grand$ for all DSG models. The new car salesman told me that they are in the country and ready for fitment.

Just been down to VW parts to order mine and they will contact me about it's cost and availability.

I dont know what everyones opinion is, but TBH I have not used the paddles more than a couple of times in the R36.

Had em in my GTI as well, and probably only used them 2 dozen times in 2 years, and that was only for novelty value rather than actually having to.

If you want them, I say go for it, but a grand would get you a remap, which would yield more fun than paddles IMHO.

Be interesting to see how many people actually use them on a regular basis.

[Steve]

I use them all the time in both the GTI and the R36 - I never drive either of them in D or S and use a combination of the paddles and the stick to change gears.

[Lance B]

I dont know what everyones opinion is, but TBH I have not used the paddles more than a couple of times in the R36.

Had em in my GTI as well, and probably only used them 2 dozen times in 2 years, and that was only for novelty value rather than actually having to.

If you want them, I say go for it, but a grand would get you a remap, which would yield more fun than paddles IMHO.

Remap? DO you mena an engine remap?

Be interesting to see how many people actually use them on a regular basis.

I use the tiptronic 99% of the time, so I can see a use for it. The beauty of the paddle shifts, for me, is that at the moment I have to take my hands from the shift lever to use the blinker and operate high/low beam(a problem with LHD switchover to RHD). With paddle shift, I wouldn't have to take my hands from the steering wheel.

[Lance B]

I use them all the time in both the GTI and the R36 - I never drive either of them in D or S and use a combination of the paddles and the stick to change gears.

I use tiptronic 99% of the time, so I can also see that the paddle shift would be a great feature. No need to take the hands from the steering wheel to change gear in tiptronic and therefore make using the blinker and high/low beam much easier as well as using the manual gear change.

[Mischa]

lance just get a gti steering wheel off ebay and have the paddles turned on through a vag-com

[Lance B]

lance just get a gti steering wheel off ebay and have the paddles turned on through a vag-com

Thanks for the tip, but looking at ebay, there are none with paddles and none with the steering wheel functions like the audio controls and MFD controls. There may also be airbag differences.

[R36 Dreamer]

Remap? DO you mena an engine remap?



I use the tiptronic 99% of the time, so I can see a use for it. The beauty of the paddle shifts, for me, is that at the moment I have to take my hands from the shift lever to use the blinker and operate high/low beam(a problem with LHD switchover to RHD). With paddle shift, I wouldn't have to take my hands from the steering wheel.

Looks like I am in the minority - I use D and S most of the time.

This is the beauty of a forum, seeing what everyone else does.

What is the advantage of using the paddles/gearshift to manually select gears? I thought the DSG was faster, and besides, the thing overrides my decisions in full manual mode anyway....

[Steve]

I only find it overrides what I want when I want it to do something bad, like over or under rev the engine. The changes are still at the same speed.

Advantages... in D or S, it gets confused by the hill I live up. It can never pick a gear, so I do it instead. Around town, I can modulate the level of noise I want (or not) and get to control the fart noise.

Plus, it's fun

[dangerous_daveo]

I use tiptronic 99% of the time, so I can also see that the paddle shift would be a great feature. No need to take the hands from the steering wheel to change gear in tiptronic and therefore make using the blinker and high/low beam much easier as well as using the manual gear change.

Without trying to be smart. I don't get that...

You shouldn't be chaning gears while trying to indicate or highbeam someone anyway!