Yes another dsg question sorry. See when car is in d mode and you driving (moving) can you pop it into sport mode is this ok for the engine or bad

I gather you are asking if you can put the lever into Sport from Drive whilst moving?

Yes ....of course..Its whats its designed to do

Yes.

As above it's 100% normal.

The strange thing though, and what I can assume has provoked your question, is that in order to switch to S you have to also press the side-button on the gear stick otherwise the movement towards S is blocked. That is absolutely pointless imho as the there is nothing dangerous than can happen when switching from to D to S that could justify this extra "safety" measure of the side button.

Instead however, If you are in D moving and for some reason forget you're in Auto and by mistake push the stick forward in order to change up a gear because you may have been driving in manual during the last minutes, then it will just drop in N no problem leaving you momentarily with no throttle and a strange feeling of "what now?" until you decide to pull it back to D even though the rpms are around 3-4K but you can't brake completely as there is traffic behind you... This could have easily been avoided If there was a similar safety blocking as in the D to S transition which serves no purpose at all.

Ive only ever used the paddles to access manual.....so never noticed that newbie69

Cant see the point at all of using forward and backwards on the stick

The strange thing though...is that in order to switch to S you have to also press the side-button on the gear stick... That is absolutely pointless imho as the there is nothing dangerous than can happen when switching from to D to S... If you are in D moving...and by mistake push the stick forward...it will just drop in N no problem leaving you momentarily with no throttle... This could have easily been avoided If there was a similar safety blocking as in the D to S transition which serves no purpose at all.

Totally agree with this. If it stopped the engine when in N too, it would be pretty much perfect IMHO.

Edited 1 July, 201214 yr by pearce_jj

Ive only ever used the paddles to access manual.....so never noticed that newbie69

Cant see the point at all of using forward and backwards on the stick

I also only use paddles as well. But there is one si****ion in particular at which paddles don't feel so comfortable...

Imagine a 90-degree turn which you enter from standstill. If you do start a little faster but not wanting to have the car screaming at 5K, then mid-corner you are maybe at 3, 3.5K and want to shift up to 2nd. During a 90-degree turn like this the shift up paddle which moves with the steering wheel (a DSG feature that I dont like) is somehere on the left half of the wheel but I cannot tell automatically where it is unless I think about it for say a few tenths of a second. Now If I dont want to take my attention of the road, I prefer to just reach out for the stick, which I know is down there and give it a push forward, just like in a manual box. And there's the problem. I've just switched to Auto a few moments before I take the turn, so my pushing forward doesnt shift up a gear but instead pushes the stick from D to N since it does not require you to push the side button as well, which in that case would have prevented the erroneous drop into N. I mean they've put the button requirement from D to S (cant see the reason but anyway) so why couldn't they put it from D to N If at the same time, the car is reving at anything more than 1.5K?

Edited 1 July, 201214 yr by newbie69

Thanks for the advise guys so it perfectly fine to put into sport when moving always get good answers on here thanks

Yes, I sometimes go into S whilst moving. The box behaves fine.

If you are in D moving and for some reason forget you're in Auto and by mistake push the stick forward in order to change up a gear because you may have been driving in manual during the last minutes, then it will just drop in N no problem

I would also like a lock preventing accidental shifts to N. Once when I was in S mode I pushed the lever to go back into D but skipped straight over it into N. That was scary. The selector in my last automatic was a lot more notchy.

I drive in manual and select using paddles and stick and shift in to s and its fine but on odd occassions and i put in d i go to change using stick and go into n its a bit scary but you soon realise and put into d no problem

Moving from D to S just swaps software maps. There's nothing mechanical going on with gear lever so it doesn't matter when you shift modes.

The lock button is just to stop accidental selection of S during normal driving.

Cheers

Lee

Ive only ever used the paddles to access manual

The thing is not all DSG cars have paddles

what happens if you accidentally go from S to N then?

myself i only ever use the paddles if i want to be in a certain gear but you got me curious now

RRRRrrrrrrrrrr..........

That's what it happens! The rpms begin to drop but you obviously lose throttle and if you cannot come safely to a full stop so that you put it back to D from tick over, you have to do this while the engine is revving at say 2K and I am not sure its very good to be done very often...

Come up to round about, indicate to turn right... slow down to check if theres other cars coming, slam into sport and fire around the circle!

Or as an alternative.

Come up to the roundabout in D & shift back to S to decelerate (slow down) without braking if not required,

indicate right.. Shift back into 'D' & then fire around the circle.

I like back to 'S' mostly to decelerate, then back to 'D' and off in higher gears without drama.

No need to knock across to Manual for down shifts or to use paddles and then needing to hold a paddle to cancel..

(i really wish the indicator was on the right and not at the gearshift side, only reason i do sometimes use the paddles at busy junctions and times, as i like to indicate.

Or it stays in D.

george

Edited 2 July, 201214 yr by sk4gw