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DSG questions
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: nc35 on September 09, 2009, 12:42:41 pm ---Well advanced driving and motorcraft teaches
"gear for go brake for slow"
Not so much with modern & performance cars, using the engine to brake from a high speed unsettles the car.
So compromising steering, braking & traction.
Personally in most situations I would prefer the brakes to take the wear than an expensive DSG box.
Think I must be getting too old. :signLOL:
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....Well, we each have our own driving styles and habits and as I've been driving for over 40 years I do tend to use the gears sometimes for slowing - Try slowing down in something like a 2-ton Rover with drum brakes! I nearly wiped out the population of a small hamlet once!
Though thinking about it more, I tend to shift down the gears after I'm off the throttle rather than while braking. My intention being to always arrive, say at a 30 limit sign, at 30mph and in a lower gear so I have more instant control if needed.
:happy2:
cmdrfire:
--- Quote from: tony_danza on April 30, 2009, 03:48:07 pm ---1st slushbox I've ever owned and only the DSG was good enough to sway me.
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DSG ain't a slushbox. There's no torque converter.
Technically it's a sequential manual gearbox but calling it a robotised manual is also correct.
@Red - To quote another driver of your vintage, Jackie Stewart - "brakes are for slowing, gears are for going" - i.e., in a road car one should use brakes to slow with preference over engine braking.
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: cmdrfire on September 09, 2009, 01:17:01 pm ---
@Red - To quote another driver of your vintage, Jackie Stewart - "brakes are for slowing, gears are for going" - i.e., in a road car one should use brakes to slow with preference over engine braking.
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....I have in fact greatly reduced my 'bad' habit since having my DSG GTI.
What I was trying to get across is that it's good practice to be constantly in the optimum gear rather than use all the torque.
In general driving conditions I look far enough ahead to simply get off the throttle and often not need the brakes because I have anticipated what's going on.
:happy2:
nc35:
Yep that's how I drive too.
I did used to try to get from Leeds to London (M1) without touching the brakes :grin:
Think I only ever managed it once. Always some numpty filling the "safe gap" between you and the car in front. Or the horror of everyone's brake lights and emergency stops for no obvious reason.
Hate going out, with the wife driving. Never a constant throttle position, just on off on off, and then touch the brakes, for no reason.
Good job I don't get car sick, 'cos I feel like a nodding dog when sat in the passenger seat :grin:
And never ever try to suggest her driving could be smoother. Instant castration.
Perhaps a lower performance car for her next time.
Didn't know how old you were RR, but guessing ~ 55 to 60 (don't know if you started driving off road before your license)
In my mind you were at least 2 decades +++ younger :surprised:
I know I feel like an old(ish) man in a young mans car. Everyone else I see in one looks like there are in their 20's
cmdrfire:
@Red & NC35 - I try to be easy and avoid using the brakes also :P There's all these stories of the old NASCAR drivers back in the sixties - their chief mechanics would get them to drive from Detroit to Chicago and back without using the brakes once!
And I know how you feel about the SO/other people driving, jeez, I find it terrifying sometimes. Worst was when I was in the US recently and my friends there drove with the American Waver - where they wobble about from one edge of their gigantic lane to the other like a ping-ping ball. I do not make a very good passenger.
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