Manual Golf R Owners

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n4aat

457 posts

211 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Usually in VAG cars you can't press the brake and clutch at the same time. It just cuts the power. Designed in as a safety feature to avoid inadvertent double peddling.

Edited by n4aat on Friday 24th October 06:00

Gruber

6,313 posts

213 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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n4aat said:
Usually in VAG cars you can't press the brake and clutch at the same time. It just cuts the power. Designed in as a safety feature to avoid inadvertent double peddling.

Edited by n4aat on Friday 24th October 06:00
Accelerator and brake, surely? yikes

Olly - the problem (one of...) with my Mk6 ed35 was that the throttle response was too slow and the engine management didn't let revs drop fast enough for proper fun. I'd strongly recommend a decent "try before you buy" with the R to make sure it doesn't suffer the same character traits.

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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There has been a mixed consensus on this over on R Forum. By and large people seem to report that regardless of pedal position the ECU cuts power with application of the brakes.

Gruber

6,313 posts

213 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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^^^^ Back to the drawing board Olly?

As it happens, I can do you a Golf that doesn't hamper your fun with these new-fangled nanny gubbins... And as it's you, you can have it at £200 (incl) a month over two years and hand it back at the end.

Can't say fairer than that. wink

bonamassa

7 posts

113 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I've just ordered my manual R and am hacked off now after reading that!
If this is the case with VAG cars then surely they should add synchro rev matching as standard so you can at least sound cool.

n4aat

457 posts

211 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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Gruber said:
n4aat said:
Usually in VAG cars you can't press the brake and clutch at the same time. It just cuts the power. Designed in as a safety feature to avoid inadvertent double peddling.

Edited by n4aat on Friday 24th October 06:00
Accelerator and brake, surely? yikes

Olly - the problem (one of...) with my Mk6 ed35 was that the throttle response was too slow and the engine management didn't let revs drop fast enough for proper fun. I'd strongly recommend a decent "try before you buy" with the R to make sure it doesn't suffer the same character traits.
Ha. Yes. Sorry for the typo. smile

RS Grant

1,416 posts

232 months

Friday 24th October 2014
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I would have thought the pedals would be spaced the same as other Golfs, but just with differently finished pedals??

Also, are you guys talking about brake-boost.. holding the car on brakes and mashing the accelerator to build boost?? I thought heel/toe was when coming down the box, blipping the throttle with your heel while braking with your toe... at least that's what I've always called it!!

So if you guys are saying that you can't heel-toe (as I know it) and it will refuse to blip throttle while on the brakes, then that isn't great because when I am 'on it' that's something which I do like to do.


Cheers,
Grant

Maxym

2,018 posts

235 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Test drove a manual GTI the other day. Don't recall a problem with heeling and toeing...