DSG in the snow

[Snoopy]

Lightweight weedly little cars with thin tyres are best on snow.  Like Ford Ka's.
The worst are 4WDs.  You are tempted to venture down snowy lanes only to find the road blocked by a milk wagon.  Then the van following you gets stuck.  And so are you.

Thats why i have a mini for the winter. (i live at one of the highest points in the north of england so it snows alittle here ) I have used it since 1989 in the winter and never got stuck. The joy of 145 tyres.
The smug feeling passing 4x4s who have got stuck is so much fun.

The other advanges of having two cars and one that has little power is you learn to drive properly again. The other is when you start craving more power with the GTI as you got use to it, you swop back to the low powered car again for upto a week and you start to learn to drive properly again, then when you go back to the GTIs they feel quick, saved me a fortune in upgrades over the years!

Winter with DSG is one of the first things i looked into back in 2005 on the mk5. I found it odd that when other autos had a winter setting the DSG did not. They then introduced a type of winter setting on the TDI GT DSG (theres a button to reduce torque in front of the gear lever) but they never for some odd reason put it on other models.

[Egbutt Wash]

I'm putting the original map back in for now.  The blufin snaps the torque in, don't need that for snow.

[hutch924]

well i have been driving about in the snow the last couple of days and have not had a problem at all i have the dsg and it drives away perfectly no need to turn the esp off at all i dont think, i think you lot just need to learn how to drive properly in the snow lol

[Snoopy]

^ It all depends what they class as snow too. 

[ErikGTI]

Hopelessly in the snow a couple of times today.....no matter if I switched ESP on or off...actually I was one of the few cars in my neighbourhood
having actually trouble. :embarassed:....I must say that the snow is heavy overhere...thank God friendly neighbours pushed me out... .

[JC]

and here was me going to upgrade our lasses to a mk6 dsg 

but looks like the trusty old 55 plate astra WITH snow option button will just have to stay 

[redleg]

Hi
 I have had  several golf's and audi A3's with dsg  never had a problem in snow
But we only ever get 1 or 2 inches  of snow in cheshire   

[ErikGTI]

....make that 10 inches overhere at the moment.. ......anyway that certainly does not influence me a bit in deciding what car to choose...
I'd be willing to sit on the back of Santa's sledge for those kind of days in order to drive my (new) GTI..............

[Mk6Maniac]

Have been driving the mk6 gti manual in the snow over the past few days, not brilliant but then I didnt expect when I bought it I'd be in snow in general so not fussed.

I take the ESP off and it makes a bit of difference but to be fair, we've had quite a bit of snow so its not getting me out of trouble.

Just had loads of fun skidding it round corners, have avoided killing people so far so all's good...

[AlanD]

Just had loads of fun skidding it round corners, have avoided killing people so far so all's good...

lol it never gets boring does it.