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Personal preference and both have different advantages and disadvantages
Manual Advantages
Mechanical feel
Personal involvement with gear change
Possibility of mechanically upgrading eg short shift
Manual Disadvantage
Grinding gears
Chosing wrong gear
Clutch slip etc...
DSG Advantage
No clutch
no manual change
quicker changes
remaps
variety - auto, paddle, sport etc...
Disadvantages
expensive to buy
expensive to repair and maintain
can become boring
They need to come up with a proper manual that has a D button for when I'm sitting in traffic/can't be ***** changing gear.
Yea well its called S-Tronic....
Ay...you really have lost your touch in trying to start a argument
Why dont you try.....Should Audi bring out a car called the Council ?
We could have a 3 door Council V6 turbo
And for the Sportback guys......A Council estate
Ay...you really have lost your touch in trying to start a argument
You know fine that's not what I said/meant.
I want a proper manual gearbox, not a flappy paddle one with no clutch pedal. I also want to be able to just stick it into auto for when I don't want to manually change gear. I know DSG/S-tronic is the closest thing to that right now, but I'd rather a manual until I get my ultimate hybrid auto/manual 'box invented.
And what the hell are you on about with the "Council"? Was meant for a different thread? Would be a bit of a break from Audi's naming convention anyway, more likely a Vauxhall/Ford move.
Yeah Paddy, what the hell are you on about man?
Oh i dont know !!! Mr Mcfly is all angry with me now and my life is not worth living anymore...I cant go on....
A thread I see the point of aythree
I've driven a DSG once (140 TDI S-Line abut 5 yrs ago when I chose a Leon FR 170 TDI instead) for about 10-15 minutes - confused the hell out of me and certainly put me off. I'm choosing a car right now and a little voice is goading me into going for a DSG and just trusting that I'll get used to it.
I love manuals but will I get used to it and love DSG like you lot do?
What do the remaps do?
Can you drive like a granny a get great mpg like you can manual? (I do that now as practice while fuel is expensive).
Remaps get rid of the auto downshift/upshifts in manual mode, increases launch control holding revs (probably not a good idea), increases rev limiter, and some other stuff i think.
And yep, you can drive gently with DSG for improved fuel consumption. The softer you are with the gas pedal the quicker it changes up to the next gear (i.e. changes up a gear at lower revs).
I know it's a little off-topic Ay.. but will a revo stage 1 stop the auto downshift and increase the rev limiter on mine? I plan to go to amd technik soon for a little mild tuning....... and you're right, I notice no one with DSG has said they miss their manual yet...!
According to revo's website:
DSG transmission performance software allows you to use the full potential of the engine, giving the control back to the driver. Hold onto the gear through that sweeping corner without the worry of the transmission shifting up and throwing out the balance of the car, have no worries about using full throttle and having the car jump about whilst shifting down for you⦠get back in full control with Revo DSG software.
Revo DSG software can be run on a standard car and it complements our full Revo Stage 1 ECU software.
Is that an implicit yes to "will I get use to it?"
so how much extra is the DSG software then?
I hear ya on that one, always good funYou know what one of things I like most about DSG is.... sitting at a set of traffic lights that has two lanes merging into one lane 20 meters on, there's a nippy car next to me which looks like he wants to get into that single lane first, and KNOWING that there is no chance of a poor take off or bad gear change.