DSG

[wacbas]

Anyone any experience/views they would like to share?

DSG with paddles is appealing to me for my next car!

[wacbas]

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Who the hell is that, wacbas is not my login!

[Shaw Tarse]

wacbas said:

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wacbas said:

Who the hell is that, wacbas is not my login!

What should your login be?

[wacbas]

I'm Mondeoman1981, just opened up my ph bookmark, posted and I'm someone else ?

[graeme4130]

Dsg is a load of old 'wabcas'

For reference, I have DSG in my current daily and it's genuinely very good. In fact, it makes a strong case for never needing a manual again. The Porsche PDK is also fantastic

[Shaw Tarse]

wacbas said:

I'm Mondeoman1981, just opened up my ph bookmark, posted and I'm someone else ?

This type of thing has happened before, I posted a link to mobile site & it allowed people to post as me.

[soad]

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[decadent]

I have a DSG with the paddles. Great for every day motoring.

My only two gripes:

1. Roundabouts: it is easily fooled in the situation where you've slowed but want to get on the power quick. Mine is too slow to react and I end up in kick down/1st gear. Obviously if you take manual control before hand there is no problem.

2. During slow pootling it's a bit noisy/mechanical sounding through 1st/2nd gears.

[MondeoMan1981]

Logged out and then logged in and all is well. Sorry wacbas whoever you are!

[M4cruiser]

wacbas said:

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Excellent foible in a DSG thread - just when you want 2nd gear it changes it to 4th ... damn you ..

[aspirated]

Something like an (gearbox) oil change every 20k and filter every 40k?

Dr G in the VAG section is your man

[huwp]

Clutch pack failed on mine at a little over £20k. Wouldn't want to run one out of warranty.

[funkyrobot]

MondeoMan1981 said:

Logged out and then logged in and all is well. Sorry wacbas whoever you are!

[Trev and Jules]

Change the oil as per recommendation the change in shifts is noticeable.

[vrsmxtb]

Very, very competent 99% of the time but somehow joyless and detached in emotion. I'd have it again on a daily driver in a flash, but it doesn't really entice me to take it out of D often.

[Elise18S]

Clutch pack failure and then mechatronics failure on mine. Before 35,000 miles.

Warranty is a must!

[graeme4130]

huwp said:

Clutch pack failed on mine at a little over £20k. Wouldn't want to run one out of warranty.

That's a lot, what car was that in ?

[Motorrad]

Dodgy in the snow- I don't know if they've resolved this in later cars but my '05 Golf GTi had problems setting off on steep hills when it was snowy/icy. There's no way to override the fker to set off in second or at least I never found it.

A little annoying having your car sat in the garage because it can't make it up the ramp to get out. Doubly so because my previous car, a 3 series on summer tyres (the golf was on winters) managed to slither it's way up there in even the worst conditions.

[richwig83]

aspirated said:

Something like an (gearbox) oil change every 20k and filter every 40k?

Dr G in the VAG section is your man

Oil and filter every 40k or 4years I think.

It's a great box, I love mine. Makes driving fast a bit too easy though

[DuraAce]

Terrific when it's working properly. I liked driving mine.

Mechatronic failure on mine at 15k miles, numerous software updates and it still wasn't right so I gave up and sold it to swop to a manual.

I'd have another but only if I was planning to change cars before the warranty ran out!