Rule10b5
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Has anyone experienced anything odd with a 6M Golf when starting from a stop and going uphill?
On four or five different occasions, I've stalled out my Golf. Each time it's happened I've been starting from a stop on a hill and in first gear.
It seems (to me), that to avoid the problem I need to depress the accelerator quite a bit more than on other cars, slip the clutch, and to hold the RPMs higher while getting rolling. Is this endemic to the platform? Or am I doing something wrong that's VW or Diesel specific?
For the past 20 years my daily driver and/or track vehicle (with one 6 month period that is the exception) has been a manual car (or motorcycle), so I know it's not a "You just don't know how to drive a manual issue." I'm completely baffled; until I got the Golf I hadn't unintentionally stalled a vehicle in years...
On four or five different occasions, I've stalled out my Golf. Each time it's happened I've been starting from a stop on a hill and in first gear.
It seems (to me), that to avoid the problem I need to depress the accelerator quite a bit more than on other cars, slip the clutch, and to hold the RPMs higher while getting rolling. Is this endemic to the platform? Or am I doing something wrong that's VW or Diesel specific?
For the past 20 years my daily driver and/or track vehicle (with one 6 month period that is the exception) has been a manual car (or motorcycle), so I know it's not a "You just don't know how to drive a manual issue." I'm completely baffled; until I got the Golf I hadn't unintentionally stalled a vehicle in years...