brons2
Veteran Member
Had a chance to drive around a family member's 2010 Golf TDI today. I enjoyed driving the car very much, but I really don't care for the DSG transmission. I found that it was difficult to launch smoothly, shifted too early, and didn't keep the engine in torque band, and caused more turbo lag than necessary.
I found at launch either I was pressing the pedal too little or too much, it was hard to get just right. And then it would just go and run through the gears as fast as it could, and then lug the engine when you transitioned from acceleration to cruising.
When I could anticipate that would need to be speeding up, say after transitioning from one freeway to another over a ramp, when I got to the end of the ramp I would use the paddle shifters to get it down a couple of gears so that it was immediately in the desired powerband.
I tried the S mode, that was a lot smoother but it tended to hold the car in gear until over 3,000 RPM, and would not shift into 6th. Ugh I swear, always too little or too much. If I could reprogram it to shift at 2500 in S mode then it would be about perfect I think.
Oh well. If I get a Golf or a JSW in the future, make mine with manual shift please!
I found at launch either I was pressing the pedal too little or too much, it was hard to get just right. And then it would just go and run through the gears as fast as it could, and then lug the engine when you transitioned from acceleration to cruising.
When I could anticipate that would need to be speeding up, say after transitioning from one freeway to another over a ramp, when I got to the end of the ramp I would use the paddle shifters to get it down a couple of gears so that it was immediately in the desired powerband.
I tried the S mode, that was a lot smoother but it tended to hold the car in gear until over 3,000 RPM, and would not shift into 6th. Ugh I swear, always too little or too much. If I could reprogram it to shift at 2500 in S mode then it would be about perfect I think.
Oh well. If I get a Golf or a JSW in the future, make mine with manual shift please!