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how to confuse a dsg??

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Hurdy:

--- Quote from: Ifti on July 10, 2009, 08:47:04 am ---With normal driving, in D, M, or S - everything is fine.
But when you floor the pedel to use the kickdown feature I also get some hesitation while it chooses its gear. I think its pretty normal, and as stated above, you'd probably need a DSG remap to sort it.
When you state the revs climb significantly, you'll probably notice thats because its dropped drown 2-3 gears to get the most power from the high rev range.

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Kickdown is normally two gears, so the delay you feel under a 2 gear kickdown is due to the fact that they are on the same gear shaft and don't benefit from the extra drive shaft.

ie 6th to 4th, 5th to 3rd, 4th to 2nd, 3rd to 1st

All these changes use the same drive shaft so the changes take longer as the clutch has to disengage, select the kickdown gear and re-engage the same clutch on the same shaft :happy2:

A kickdown of 3 gears would still be longer than a 1 gear change as normally the box has a pre-selected gear on the other drive shaft that is nearest to the one being used, so it would have to select a gear further away than the one it normally pre-selects. It would also take longer to match the drive shaft speeds for the gear swap :happy2:

tony_danza:
I find if I've been tootling around in D, lazy commuting style and then surprise it with a bootfull, it has a spaz as its gone to sleep.

Override with the paddles where possible.

Sunglasses Ron:
Yeah sorry mate, the DSG software is a aftermarket map that allows you to have it in manual and when you floor it it doesn't engage the hideous kickdown (which I used to hate  :sick:). As Tony says, it's a lot better to just use the paddles and engage the gear YOU want, not what it may think is best. That's what I always use to do when aproachiing a RA/juction. Plus it gets you a bit more involved in the driving..  :wink:

pazz:
I hate kickdown sometimes. Really is anoying when you only want a little acceleration and all of sudden you get a shed-load.

Kickdown almost rids the whole idea of low down torque - as it always wants to shift down into the power range.

Am I right in thinking Revo now do DSG box software?

pazz:

--- Quote from: tony_danza on July 10, 2009, 10:12:17 am ---I find if I've been tootling around in D, lazy commuting style and then surprise it with a bootfull, it has a spaz as its gone to sleep.

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This is exactly what I hate about the DSG. "D" is kind of sporadic and inconsistent. One minute it wil be economy the next it will be dropping the gears and accelerating like crazy.

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