« Reply #8 on: 02 June 2020, 13:48 »
I've never really thought DSG on a GTD is worthwhile - and I say that after 2 of them and 120,000 miles.
The only time it would be worth it would be if you sat in traffic all day.
Otherwise its into sixth from about 35mph and thats about it until the next junction.
Certainly never feel like I am making gear changes all day.
My impressions of DSG in a friend’s hired GTD were that it masked that lovely torque surge when wafting around. However when my friend demonstrated it under what can best be described as ‘test conditions’ it went like a rocket and would have given the manual R I had at the time a bloody good run for its money.
I felt the lower gears were a bit too low on the manual GTD I had. Same for the R, the first two gears unnecessarily low. With 280 lb ft of torque (sorry, still can’t get used to newton meters) at 1800 rpm or so you can get away with much higher and more useable gearing for low speed work and getting up to cruising speed quickly.
Logged
‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten
