manual or dsg

[RedRobin]

Which paddle extensions do you have??
The default factory paddles are hardly 'paddles' IMO - more like small buttons! lol

I personally find no need for extensions to the OEM paddles.  Providing you keep your hands in the 'quarter to three' positions (the steering wheel rim is specifically shaped to 'encourage' such hand placings), the standard paddles are more than adequate.  And if you are turning from stationary (such as emerging from a 'T' junction, or roundabout), then your left hand should go straight from the handbrake - onto the floor gear lever - in the exact same way as you would with a manual. 

....I agree that no-one needs to have extended paddles and I also drive in the 'quarter-to-three' position but paddle extensions do help in some circumstances.

I never use the handbrake except when parking but that's a different subject and also one which we have very fully discussed and debated before!

[Teutonic_Tamer]

If you are accelerating in 4th for example, it will have 5th ready for the change up. However if you suddenly slow instead it takes it a split second longer to get 3rd as it did not have that one ready.

Makes perfect sense.
So say you do brake slowly, and you drop down to 3rd, will it get ready with 4th gear - so in other words will it be a little hesitant with every gear you drop down until you come to a complete stop??

not sure what I said was a good example in retrospect 

although I am guessing it has to make a constant judgement on whether you are accelerating or slowing based on many factors, it does not do the change until it is ready so there is no hesitantly as such and therefore any delay is invisible. The only sort of thing that will make it truly hesitant is braking hard from a reasonable speed to a standstill then imediately mashing the accelerator to set off again, although it pulls in the clutches to stop a stall there is a delay while it gets 1st.

Not true.  The DSG always works in pre-select mode.  It will always have two gears continuously meshed - one in current use, the other 'waiting in the wings'.

My statement is true, you have just misunderstood it

Well make it clearer next time!      

[matsu]

just luuuurve them paddles!!

want want want!!!!

matsu

[R32UK]

I would say the paddle extentions are a great idea. I found a few times on my rocco test drive that I was accidently hitting the cruise/indicator stalk. Probably not a big problem if your used to the paddles, but a good addition anyway

[ifti]

I would probably prefer paddle extensions in the standard Matte Black though, so it matched with the rest of the wheel, stalks, etc, rather then standing out or being in CF......
Then again, I'd only get them if the standard paddles really were holding me back.....

[Jkctr]

How much 

http://www.thettshop.com/latest.asp?cat=2008&product=202604

Think i will get my uncle to make me some for free and make some fittings. 

[Max Q]

i want a gearbox to do two things, change gears when i want to, and change them quickly. you don't get this with dsg.

That is in fact the definition of exactly what DSG does. Couldn't have put it better myself.

[RedRobin]

How much 

http://www.thettshop.com/latest.asp?cat=2008&product=202604

Think i will get my uncle to make me some for free and make some fittings. 

....The GTI ones are much cheaper than that.

Unless your uncle is up to professional standard making such parts, Good Luck! If you were to inspect these shifter extensions in the 'flesh' you'd realise what I'm saying.

[sharpie]

i want a gearbox to do two things, change gears when i want to, and change them quickly. you don't get this with dsg.

That is in fact the definition of exactly what DSG does. Couldn't have put it better myself.

unless the dsg in the golf is different from that in the eos, i really didn't feel that way at all. etto.

[Jkctr]

He is currently making this

http://www.wally.com/jumpCh.asp?idUser=0&idChannel=125&idLang=IT&attivo=4

Even the toilet is made out of CF so im sure he can do some paddles