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DSG Paddleshifter Extensions....
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: cmdrfire on February 20, 2009, 12:26:27 am ---I have great safety concerns about extension paddles for the wheel-equipped paddle shifters. In the (heaven forbid) event of accident, the wheel could spin around and one of those things could cause significant injury to your hands or arms. You will notice that "long" paddle shifters are used on vehicles where the paddles are fixed to the steering column box - this is what Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini, et al do. On the Scirocco race car the situation is the same, the paddles are not affixed to the wheel and will not spin around.
On vehicles with the paddles attached to the wheels - VW/Audi/Seat range, Bugatti Veyron, Porsche PDK-equipped cars, the paddles are very small and heavily integrated into the wheel to help avoid injury.
If you track your car at all I would strongly advise against using these, and would advise against using them on the road as well.
Just my tuppenny-worth.
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....A very interesting tuppenny-worth!
I'm having difficulty imagining just how such paddles might be damaging but I'm not able to totally disagree with you.
Just thinking aloud about this important safety point: As these paddle extensions are attached by adhesive pads, might they in fact come off relatively easily when subjected to the force of an accident? I'm thinking that although they wouldn't break within their own structure before a human finger would break, their adhesive fixing would break first.
Their fixing is such that they are very strong when pulling towards you (which is the action of their everyday operation) but weak when pushed away from you (which is an action you neither take nor do you travel with your fingers between the wheel and the paddle extensions).
At the moment I'm not convinced you are right but I keep an open mind and I may be wrong. Could you elaborate, please?
:happy2:
tony_danza:
--- Quote from: WhiteGTI on February 20, 2009, 08:50:06 am ---Raising the gear lever looks very cool there ^^. I wonder if they could do the same to mine!
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Hmm - interesting thought. Is it a series of switches (which would make it easy) or a physical linkage?
Oh, and RR. Good write up, don't know if they're my cup of tea but I'd be interested in a feel of them - I've only got little hands and the paddles when at the quarter to three postion and thumbs up are only really at my fingertips.
WhiteGTI:
--- Quote from: tony_danza on February 20, 2009, 09:17:35 am ---
--- Quote from: WhiteGTI on February 20, 2009, 08:50:06 am ---Raising the gear lever looks very cool there ^^. I wonder if they could do the same to mine!
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Hmm - interesting thought. Is it a series of switches (which would make it easy) or a physical linkage?
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It is an interesting concept yeah! On my Elise, it has a very high gear lever shaft so that the shift knob is very close to the steering wheel. Really effective in minimising hand movement away from the wheel, and im sure it reduces shift times by a few biliseconds!
I've always felt that the golf gear knob is too low (as are most road cars in comparison to fully prepped race cars obviously), so any chance to raise the gear lever would be welcomed IMO!
Sorry to digress away from this thread topic, i shall shut up now :embarrassed: :embarrassed: :chicken:
Greeners:
Another superb write up Robin that Im sure I've read before but enjoyed just as much the second time around :wink:
Nearly makes me want a DSG :rolleye:
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: Greenouse on February 20, 2009, 02:20:12 pm ---Another superb write up Robin that Im sure I've read before but enjoyed just as much the second time around :wink:
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....Yes, I'd originally written it on BIALI Motorsport but thought it might be useful here. I didn't bother to rewrite it in the WHY/SOURCE/INSTALLATION etc format.
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