DSG MK7 Sport Mode

[Mr Savage]

Yes Drive mode is awful that upshifts so early that your car feels like it's lost 100bhp. You have to push the pedal quite far for it to drive quickly. Should definitely be a setting in the middle.

The best setting for maximum control is pushing the DSG stick to the left and then using the paddle shifters for changing gears as then it doesn't change gear for you or reset to automatic. It only downshifts when you're slowing down to a stop.

[mike.]

Never used S  in 9 years of DSG driving, not sure what the point of it is.

I use D when stuck in traffic but most of the time I use the paddles in manual, that's why I added it and will always in the future.

The D and S modes are just a compromise, they are never going to predict the road ahead ie hills, junctions, overtaking etc. and it would be nearly impossible to do, I don't think a third mode would really help any.

[dubber36]

Mike, I think you and I are getting confused. I'm pretty sure they are on about the selectable driving modes. Eco, Normal and Sport (or something like that). Not Drive and Sport gearbox modes.

[Mr Savage]

Mike, I think you and I are getting confused. I'm pretty sure they are on about the selectable driving modes. Eco, Normal and Sport (or something like that). Not Drive and Sport gearbox modes.

There talking about the gearbox not selectable driving modes. In DSG.

[Mark V GTD]

Not Drive and Sport gearbox modes.

Lol, no !  Thats exactly what we are talking about!

Mike - really you have never used S mode? I use it constantly to alter the way the car changes gear - however, unike most people who use it to make the car accelerate faster I use it to get an engine braking effect when approaching junctions/roundabouts/ works very effectivley and significantly reduces the need to use the brakes.

I expect this is even easier with the Mk.7 as the shift lever is spring loaded (as opposed to the earler versions which had the own indent - and, inexplicably, required the lock button to be depressed to move in to it...

[mike.]

I just find the programmed modes never change gear when I want to, more so the S mode which just seems to have a mind of its own.

I bought the DSG so I could have a really fast changing manual which is the mode I use most and still love.
When I am lazy or just stuck in slow moving traffic I just stick it in D and it is effortless
Even on the motorway I would have it in manual, as there is plenty of torque in sixth without the box changing down, which is what it does if it was in one of the programmed modes and you tramp on the accelerator.
If I want engine braking I just knock it down the gears myself.

I do use S sometimes to do a rapid down change from say 6th to 3rd by moving the lever from manual to S and then straight back to manual.

[Mark V GTD]

Interesting - just shows how many ways its possible to use DSG and that everyone finds their own way of getting on with it (well apart from Jimble!)....

[Jimble]

Interesting - just shows how many ways its possible to use DSG and that everyone finds their own way of getting on with it (well apart from Jimble!)....

 

[GiT1984]

Sometimes it's very useful to wake the car from the economical torpor of "Eco Pro" mode - either knocking the sift lever back for DSG "S" or flicking a paddle for fast overtakes where you don't want to kick down. 
Of course when you are (briefly) in DSG "S" - it's much quicker to kick down and when you've overtaken, you can just nude the lever back again to go back into "D" .... 

I don't particularly like driving the car in the full sports mode with everything to the max. The suspension feels like it moves around a bit more, to make it more adjustable in "Normal" mode and the DSG in Sport feels hyperactive as the OP said.