Slightly off the 'R' topic but I love the DSG in my GTI. So so smooth and phenomenal in heavy traffic (which is where I spend lot of my time). Btw I test drove the manual GTI and it was an incredible box. Very, very smooth and sweet shifting. A joy.
@Jimble what are you not liking with DSG?
Back on the R topic - why do most folk think its essential to have DSG on the R?
Ok, trying not to stray too far off topic, the biggest problem i have is that there is no consistency with it on my daily route which has some up and down hills, stop start traffic and a couple of long straight roads, if your travelling at speeds between 28 and 31 mph it will either be in 3rd or 4th and will only change to 5th at 32mph or above?? whilst whilst accelerating up and and down any kind if gradient it will hold onto 2nd or 3rd way too long or it'll be in 4th and i'm happy! I've done the same journey ~25 times in this car now and every day seems different! When in stop start traffic with the stop start system active it's pot luck as to whether it'll pull away smoothly as soon as you lift your foot off the brake or if it will lurch forward as it releases the brake itself and the traffic in front has disappeared into the distance!
If the car is just in D there isn't enough urgency when trying to pull away quickly or accelerating hard from a slow pace unless you floor it into kick down which seems to take an eternity to decide which gear to be in! Now this can be solved by being in S but then the revs are held up at 3k which i don't want all the time!!
I've tried driving it in manual mode in traffic but it will not give me the gear i want and still changes down for me! WTF?
The couple of blasts i've had in it in manual is where it really makes sense and the reason i suspect most people will get DSG in the R, when you keep the revs up and give it the beans in the twisty roads i think "now i remember why i ordered DSG" but then it's back to the daily grind and it all goes to sh!t again!
i think it's just my daily route that causes my annoyance but there isn't much i can do about that without adding about 5 miles onto the journey! I have a few other gripes with this car and most are due to some of the options and thats why i said if i did order an R the options list would be left pretty much alone, i don't need half the stuff i specced on the GTI and probably wouldn't bother with them again, i'd go manual in the R because i don't drive like a hoonigan very often and when i do i think the "pudding stirrer"
will do just fine!
