Adaptive Chasis Control - Worth £815?

[JBirchy]

Well worth it for me. I love it, and regularly change between Comfort and Sport modes, there is a huge difference in my car.

90% of the time it stays in comfort mode for the dreary commute and general driving, but I do use Sport when I want to press on. That said, the narrow B-Roads roads round my way are that bad, I tend to use Individual where I leave the Suspension and Steering in Comfort, everything else in Sport. With Sports suspension it looses a lot of the fluidity and feel and becomes a bit skittish. Of course, well surfaced roads bring the best out of Sports suspension but it's rare up where I live.

If I'd have wanted a 'hot-hatch' purely for driving terms I'd have bought the most focused one on the market (Renaultsport Megane 265 Trophy) - but I didn't. I wanted the best 'all-rounder' so it plays the luxury barge all day long in Comfort mode, and is very nicely entertaining when the mood/conditions require.

It would be the first option I'd tick again without a shadow of doubt.

[Mr Savage]

If I'd have wanted a 'hot-hatch' purely for driving terms I'd have bought the most focused one on the market (Renaultsport Megane 265 Trophy) - but I didn't. I wanted the best 'all-rounder' so it plays the luxury barge all day long in Comfort mode, and is very nicely entertaining when the mood/conditions require.

It would be the first option I'd tick again without a shadow of doubt.

I'm sorry but I find the GTI to be the same ride in all settings. It can get quite crashy over poor road surfaces regardless of what setting the DCC is in. It's a reasonable ride but it will never be a great ride which is fine and expected.

I have been fortunate enough to drive my GTI for 14,000 miles with DCC, an R without DCC and my brothers R with DCC and I can tell you that it is in my opinion a complete waste of money.

I was going over a very bumpy, poorly surface in my fully loaded GTI last week. (As in 5 passengers). The road was rough and crashy and so I took the car out of sport mode and into comfort to which the road was not even the slightest bit more comfortable. Infact even one of the passengers commented "well that didn't help!". This is on 18" Austins, my brothers R is on 19" Pretorias and while the ride of the R is less comfortable again I was changing the suspension settings in his car and noticing no difference at all.

People will continue to say it's a great option, the difference is night and day ect but really I think you're kidding yourselves. I'm sure DCC must do something as otherwise they wouldn't beable to sell it but at best it makes a reasonable ride ever so slightly more reasonable and not "great".

I'm trying to give potential new buyers some useful advice here and my advice is spend that £815 on Pretorias or the bigger Sat Nav screen.

[Brenbo]

I have toyed with the idea of getting a Golf R next time.  I currently have a GTI PP without DCC and have been on the configurator to see if with DCC the price was over my potential budget for getting a Golf R.  The only reason i would think about getting DCC was to get Race Mode.  However if you are saying I would get Race Mode without DCC, then it is a no brainer for me.  The ride in my current GTI PP is more than fine without DCC I do not even miss it.

I am one of those potential new buyers you speak of, and thank you for making some of the facts regarding Race Mode and DCC clearer. 

[ajmoir36]

Suspension is harder in race mode than in normal.

[mcmaddy]

Maybe the DCC works perfectly Mr savage but the issue is you. Do you granite a4se cheeks or something haha  nearly everyone else can feel the difference but you can't even on two different cars. Maybe the roads are worse where you are so no amount of soft suspension will help.

[Mr Savage]

Maybe the DCC works perfectly Mr savage but the issue is you. Do you granite a4se cheeks or something haha  nearly everyone else can feel the difference but you can't even on two different cars. Maybe the roads are worse where you are so no amount of soft suspension will help.

Everyone else apart from half the other people on this thread including Monkeyhanger & Hawii-Five to name a couple that think it's not worth it you mean?

Im just being honest. Not gonna say that I feel the difference when I honestly don't.

[mcmaddy]

Matt (mh) never had dcc on a mk7 so can't really offer up an opinion. He had it on his previous scirocco but that was the old DCC. Have you not asked VW to check yours out and reset the basic settings on the DCC? You can come and drive my gtd with it on if you want to see it working properly. It must be the roads where you are because I can honestly say the settings on mine do change. They haven't misbuilt yours and not put the dcc on??

[p3asa]

It looks more and more like yours doesn't have DCC Mr Savage.
Is there anyone on the forum near you that has it that can definitely feel a difference, could maybe take you out in theirs and vice versa.

I'd be mightily p!ssed off if I had paid that amount for something that wasn't there.

[Mr Savage]

Well I must have DCC as I have the comfort and individual options on the driver profile selection. It might be more a case of my suspension being mechanically broken as it's always been noisy at low speeds over bumps. Dealer always denied anything being wrong with it. A typical "It's a characteristic of the car".

[CraigW]

I have DCC and I can't tell any difference. It's the first option that would go if I was to order again.