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DSG hesitating on downshift
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: stokeballoon on January 17, 2011, 06:51:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hedge on January 17, 2011, 04:52:18 pm ---If I was being lazy I would just let the box downshift itself.
By double clicking and dropping 2 gears I have used more engine braking. :confused:
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x2. Experience more engine braking by dropping 2 gears. Perhaps that is just me and you Ian. Guess I am lazy! But at least I use my left leg!
Right gear right time, I don't want to spend 100 yards changing 2 gears in my manual box, where I can slap it down 2 and use the engine braking available in one constant flow, and thereby not unsettling the car.
Just the way i was taught to drive, on several courses I have been on. ETTO.
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....That's right - ETTO and it's the way I've been taught (rightly or wrongly) and it's the way I'm most comfortable with. :smiley:
Just make sure you don't go straight from 3rd to 1st when DSG :grin:. 1st is a very short gear on the Mk5 GTI.
I think that there's more liklihood of getting it wrong on DSG than manual. Yes, the DSG will do it and I hear what some of you guys are saying but I think that DSG is happier going through the gears rather than 'boxing'.
RedRobin:
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Actually thinking about it further: I don't agree with whoever said that the car is more stable when boxing - It'll depend very much on how you want to use the throttle at the time, by putting lots of power suddenly into a much lower gear you may risk unsettling the car. Anyway, we [for Carl's benefit] can talk about this all night and achieve nothing.
vRS Carl:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on January 17, 2011, 08:00:11 pm ---Anyway, I can talk all night and achieve nothing.
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That's the most truthful thing i've heard you say Robin :booty: :evilgrin:
RedRobin:
^^^^
:laugh: - I see what you did there, Carl. :P :grin:
Hedge:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on January 17, 2011, 07:53:36 pm ---....That's right - ETTO and it's the way I've been taught (rightly or wrongly) and it's the way I'm most comfortable with. :smiley:
Just make sure you don't go straight from 3rd to 1st when DSG :grin:. 1st is a very short gear on the Mk5 GTI.
I think that there's more liklihood of getting it wrong on DSG than manual. Yes, the DSG will do it and I hear what some of you guys are saying but I think that DSG is happier going through the gears rather than 'boxing'.
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It will only go into 1st if you are going slow enough, well at least with OEM software that is. :smiley:
Also you can't 'box' per se with a DSG box as you can't miss gears, you can only simulate it. :wink:
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