Throttle Response

[Juicetin]

Gti PP owner...apparently the throttle response is supposed to be sharper in sport mode than normal but 3 months in to ownership I'm struggling to tell any difference.
Is it just me or do others think the same?

[vidman2]

I can certainly tell the difference in mine, much sharper in Sport.

[fredgroves]

That's definitely what it does in Sport mode.

Do you understand what increased throttle response actually is?

[Ivor Mk4 Turbo]

Gti PP owner...apparently the throttle response is supposed to be sharper in sport mode than normal but 3 months in to ownership I'm struggling to tell any difference.
Is it just me or do others think the same?

In this respect, I also struggle to find a big difference between normal & sport.  The only mode I notice a major difference with, is ECO.  The car seems to have quite a 'lag' in ECO, when comparing ECO vs. normal & ECO vs. sport.

[Juicetin]

That's definitely what it does in Sport mode.

Do you understand what increased throttle response actually is?

Thanks for your reply, yes i know what throttle response is and I'm saying I can tell no difference between modes in my car.

[monkeyhanger]

The difference between eco and normal vs normal and sport is huge. What I have noticed in the GTD and the R is that in Sport/Race, the bottom end is sharper (not by a massive amount), but mid to high end makes no odds.

[phazer]

Are you resetting sport mode every drive? If you leave it set, next time you start the car it will say it's in sport mode but the throttle won't actually be in sport. It forgets and VW don't seem to have a fix.

In our GTD we have to switch to normal and back to sport to get the steering and throttle really into sport mode. Oddly it always remembers the exhaust, that always remains in noisy mode.

[monkeyhanger]

Are you resetting sport mode every drive? If you leave it set, next time you start the car it will say it's in sport mode but the throttle won't actually be in sport. It forgets and VW don't seem to have a fix.

In our GTD we have to switch to normal and back to sport to get the steering and throttle really into sport mode. Oddly it always remembers the exhaust, that always remains in noisy mode.

I used to have this on my GTD, they couldn't fix it at the dealership, but an ECU software update that was part of its first service cured the issue. My R does not suffer from mode amnesia.

[charv94]

I used to have this on my GTD, they couldn't fix it at the dealership, but an ECU software update that was part of its first service cured the issue. My R does not suffer from mode amnesia.

When was this update? pre march 15?

[monkeyhanger]

I used to have this on my GTD, they couldn't fix it at the dealership, but an ECU software update that was part of its first service cured the issue. My R does not suffer from mode amnesia.

When was this update? pre march 15?

I had my first service on the GTD in August 2014. The fix was coincidental to the unrelated software update - they did not intend to fix it that way.