3 hours ago, e-Roottoot said:

@bubib5

It is not a feature the VW Engineers designed into your car.  (It is one some people might have liked they had done.)

Not a feature on any i have driven.

 

I have driven a few and had a 2016 2.0 TDI SCR DSG for 40,000 miles / 3 years.  It had it's scheduled oil change before 3 years.

 

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Have you had your car from new and it has been doing the same from new?

 

Im the second owner of the car, the car was built in 2016, sat at a dealer, as a show car till 2018, i bought it last year, with 45000KM on the clock, done the dsg oil change at 59000KM, the car now has 71000KM, i did ask the dealer about the gears, they say its supposed to work like that, as the 190HP has enough torque to start out in D2, once you shove it into S it always starts in S1, it has been doing that since day one, and yes i have confirmed with the previous owner as well, has been doing that as well, he got it with 300KM on the clock, so brand new almost..

My guess, and it is only a guess, is that starting in D2 spreads the wear on the clutches to save the D1 clutch always being used to start from stationary.

If the car always started in D1 then that clutch would take all the "slippage" to get the car rolling and the second clutch would only be used for selecting the 2nd, 4th and 6th gears with very minimal wear.

This would mean the D1 clutch wearing out long before the D2 one.

 

Most of the time, my car will start in D1 if the car senses it is on a hill. If the road is flat or downhill it will almost always start in D2.

This is the perfect place to get info from drivers of a Skoda with a DQ250 DSG.     ? Who has one that moves  off in D2 when you select D and not D1. Or S1 if you select S ?       Include DQ380 / 381,s in that. 

Edited 25 August, 20214 yr by e-Roottoot

Here! Although, if its a hill, or if im towing its always in D1.. And yes, in sport its S1, and if you floor it from the start it wont even try to go into D2..

DQ381 here. Mine always starts in D1 and quickly shifts to D2 once moving. I also find it easy to control when parking. Perhaps there's variances between the boxes when it comes to parking?

Alas only a DQ380 for me but it starts off on 1 st and almost immediately moves to second. 

 

It slips the clutch far more than I would at low speed but all OK thus far.