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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: ajmoir36 on 09 February 2015, 20:43
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Does anyone know if you can get buttons for the DCC and ACC for the right hand side and whether or not the wires would re-route to the other side, it sort of annoys me I have to lean over the gearstick to press them. Also at a quick glance you cannot see the status of them. Also I suppose blanking plates for the ones you move across.
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The buttons are on that side in all markets unfortunately...
Personally I dont have a problem with it as the buttons near to me (park assist and park pilot) are more frequently used...
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I'm with ajmoir on this. I hate having to peer around the gear stick to change driving mode or knock the stop/start off. It's dangerous! When VW have gone to the expense of tooling for right hand drive it seems churlish to have ignored the cheapo buttons around the gear lever.
To the best of my knowledge they are a pig to move over if not impossible. But I might not have that right.
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I've gone to change driving mode only to turn off Start/stop, a fair few times!
I just wish you could change driving mode from the steering wheel.
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I agree from the steering wheel for race mode would be useful. If the buttons weren't sculpted to fit in their holes you could move them around. I don't have park pilot (the button with the steering wheel) so could move the other two across. It might be best if knocking the DSG stick into S enables "Race mode" would be more appropriate too.
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This is a hang up for a car engineered for LHD, agree on the wrong side, also the DSG is configured same way as if in a LHD manual mode you move the lever closer
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This is a hang up for a car engineered for LHD, agree on the wrong side, also the DSG is configured same way as if in a LHD manual mode you move the lever closer
Who shifts with the lever rather than the paddles tho'?
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Bet the Germans are complaining that the button that switches off the parking sensors are on the wrong side :whistle:
I have no issue finding the buttons 'blind', neither is the lever really in the way in manual version.
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Paddles here, hands on the wheel if I am doing that.
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This is a hang up for a car engineered for LHD, agree on the wrong side, also the DSG is configured same way as if in a LHD manual mode you move the lever closer
Who shifts with the lever rather than the paddles tho'?
the mere mortals who do not get flappy paddles on some dsg cars, i had a toucan without paddles as a courtesy car :)
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I doubt someone with a Polo SE DSG, or a Touran full of kids, footballs and wet dogs would ever change gear manually.
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I doubt someone with a Polo SE DSG, or a Touran full of kids, footballs and wet dogs would ever change gear manually.
My comment was based on an woeful experience of a tdi toucan which constantly was changing gear in auto mode in its quest for economy
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VW's DSG selected gear display in the MFD is a double edged sword - most manufacturer's auto boxes do not display the self selected gear when in full Auto mode. VW's do - which I like - but some folk do end up continuously monitoring it and comparing the cars selection to what they would have chosen if it were manual....
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I have to admit the DSG upshifts in D mode very quickly. 25mph in 5th gear anyone?
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I have to admit the DSG upshifts in D mode very quickly. 25mph in 5th gear anyone?
Yup... I get it too. I've got used to it in full auto mode.
It's all about lowering CO2 and economy targets across the VAG brand. They're all at it. It's the same reason we no longer have the R32 V6 (too naughty). It would skew the economy figures unfavourably... and we wouldn't want that.
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Which is all about EU CO2 targets for manufacturers which is averaged across their full vehicle production...
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What about down shifts from 3 to 2 being a bit heavy handed so to speak?
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I have to admit the DSG upshifts in D mode very quickly. 25mph in 5th gear anyone?
My point is - if it were any other manufacturers box you would not know!
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Other than counting them and revs/speed.
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Other than counting them and revs/speed.
Would involve a lot of speedo watching rather than road watching
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True, do any of the other models of VW have similar buttons to those around the gearstick?
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Passat does... in fact much of the Passat is the same gear as the Golf 7
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Ohh off to google Passat interiors