OK, my trip to Sennelager!
Well, an hour an a half journey turned into 2 and a half hours! I was fully expecting to get absolutely knowhere with any of my complaints, but had some good and some bad news!
Firstly, the DSG change down. The 'Technical' guy from VW took the car out around some twisties and to be honest, i did thee old 'holding on to the door' thing that the misses does when i go over 60mph! - not saying he was hanging about but bloody hell!!
Well, i had the car stealer rep in the back holding on for grim life, trying to translate this german and he knew his stuff alright! (not the car dealer - the german VW bloke!) After much up and down changing, wacking it into 1st at 30 plus other mad things, he deduced that it was all working fine.
We have recently spoken on here about 'confusing the gearbox' - well this is what i think he was getting at. I still argue the point that if you are manually going down through the box, then the selection of the lower gear should work fine. He tells me that the car assumes you will select the next GEAR UP, which is where the delay comes and the momentary surge of power as it realises that it is thinking to far ahead!
He checked to see if there was an ECU upgrade, but all is up to date, so there we are!
The dealer guy said in his ignorance, "does it happen in normal drive mode?" i said it is not so noticable as the changing down is later, so he said "well cant you just drive it in automatic then?"
He clearly did not take in any of what the german guy said about the technicality of the gearbox, the immense amount of money pushed into development of the DSG and the sheer advances it has!
Secondly, the Steering Issue. After again doing many tests and yet more driving around scrubbing the tyres of a few more miles, he deduced there was an issue regarding the steering. I said that there was a noise coming from the brakes also on full lock and once we were back in VW HQ, he played me a sound file on the rather dated PC he had, which was exactly the noise mine made!
He said - "good yar" "we at VW know about this problem but we do not know what to do about it yet, so when we do, we will call you"
Obviously this was all in German so didnt understand a bloody word of it, but thats what the rather white looking dealer bloke looked like after his short test drive!
So thats the long and short of it - DGS: All Ok, Im basically being picky and asking to much and Steering: Yeh you got a problem, dont call us, we'll call you!
So, drove back along the Autobarn and nudged 160 following a BMW M5. Bloody wind noise was quite loud, so may bring that up when i speak to VW again!!!! (just kidding)
Id like to thank all that contributed towards my quest for a normal steering car and a finely tuned gearbox especially 'Teutonic_Tamer' for his expert knowledge.
Speak soon no doubt.
Drive safe (like me)
Lee
