How do you drive a DSG?

[Steve30]

Golfti Jesus loves you but everyone else thinks your Troll Cnut

Steve30

That is really not very nice.

Only joking mate 

[Ess_Three]

You don't see it through ignorance or stupidity?

It's a manual gear box with two clutches, you just don't use a clutch pedal.

Manual suggests that everything is done manually, from the selecting of which gear to be in, to the changing of gears.
With DSG it's not...it may well be an Automated Manual design, but it will still only do what the computer program allows...that, to me, removes any fully manual option...so it can't be difined as a manual.

It's very clever, and suits many people...but it sure isn't a manual control function.
Manual - the very term when referring to a control action - refers to a state that will not change without an outside command. DSG will take command of certain situations even if 'Manual' control is selected and effect a change. That is an automatic control function, no matter how you dress it up.

[mike.]

I thing the problem here is that there are really three types of gearbox.

Fully Manual
Auto Clutch Manual (DSG)
Fully Automatic

The problem just seems to be when someone just says a DSG is the same as a Torque convertor Automatic when it clearly isn't.
Likewise the DSG could not be called a full manual, as you have rightly said, if you hit the rev limiter or the car is about to stall the computer will take over and change gear.

I don't like Automatic gearboxes either but I love my DSG..

[Rolfe]

Why won't it let you select second to move off in, in snow?  That scuppered me a couple of times last winter.

We've had snow already, and the winter tyres don't go on for ten days....

Rolfe.

[Ess_Three]

Why won't it let you select second to move off in, in snow?  That scuppered me a couple of times last winter.

We've had snow already, and the winter tyres don't go on for ten days....

Rolfe.

Because the computer say no.
Just like all the best 'manual' gearboxes...oh, no. Maybe not...

[mike.]

Why won't it let you select second to move off in, in snow?  That scuppered me a couple of times last winter.

We've had snow already, and the winter tyres don't go on for ten days....

Rolfe.

Just take your foot off the pedals and it starts off from a standstill itself, it was excellent in the snow last year.
Once you get going it is easy to select second and because there is no disruption in drive, unlike a manual, it just keeps driving 

[Ess_Three]

Once you get going it is easy to select second and because there is no disruption in drive, unlike a manual, it just keeps driving 

Hmm...
But with a manual, you pull away in second and suffer no disruption to drive as you leave it in second and don't dip the clutch...it just keeps driving. 

[mike.]

That's right so they both give the same result in the end 

[Snoopy]

The mk6 DSG must be better than the mk5 in the snow as the one i tried to get out the car park was so abrupt it just sat there spinning.

[Ess_Three]

That's right so they both give the same result in the end 

Not if you want to pull away in 2nd with idle revs, they don't.