R Throttle Travel

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Mine seems fine, but perhaps being permanently  in Race mode makes a difference?

When maintaining a speed of less than 40mph and just giving it a little or backing off a little with the traffic flow, I find the first inch of travel very useful with plenty of control. Maybe it''s a DSG thing? The DSG box does generally prefer to knock it down a gear for all but the tiniest of acceleration rates.

I've been suffering throttle delay on my mk7 gti pp dsg  and today it went in to Stoke VW and got the call earlier
that it is turbo failure and are fitting a new turbo next week. It was making a very slight whirring noise and i was
pushing the pedal a bit further down than normal and it was then lunging. A new turbo after 15k is a bit annoying but at least the warranty will cover the cost.
Could be a DSG specific issue.



But even with DSG I find the pedal travel issue more apparent in with the gearbox in Drive. Feels pretty numb for the first inch and then the response starts to kicks in but you've still got to put in some effort.  You get used to applying greater foot pressure as necessary, but that first inch is still a dead inch.
 
With the box in Sport I find the delay greatly reduced and the pedal more responsive from the off, reacting quicker to lighter foot pressure. Much prefer that and might explain why I’m driving the R in S or S-manual most of the time, more so than I ever did the Mk6 GTI where the pedal response was immediate.  Might also explain the cars thirst and my decreasing mpg. 

Observations of throttle travel in my DSG are:

In D - numb/ lack of response for first inch.  Effort required.
In D/manual (using stick or paddles) - slight improvement in early throttle response, but still some initial delay.
In S - response almost immediate, less pressure required, less pedal travel.
In S/manual (stick/paddles) - response immediate - quickest and most reactive of all, no pedal travel.