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Drive mode - program the throttle response separately from the DSG7 gear shift schedule?

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There have been a few threads here that talk around this topic, and one or two comments that hit my desire straight on.

(2020 model year, manufactured April 2020, Octavia Scout 2.0TDI DSG7 all wheel drive)

 

Here are past threads related:

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/398017-octavia-3-driving-modes/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-5010289 (this specific comment in the thread asks exactly my question)

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/391746-fuel-consumption-in-normal-eco/?tab=comments#comment-4555644 (this one makes an important point about the limits of "Eco")

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/455164-driving-mode-effects/

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/441173-sport-mode-never-worked/

 

My quip/question: In Eco mode, the throttle response is BOTH set to "push through more range to accelerate the same amount" AND "push MUCH farther BEFORE the throttle responds AT ALL".

That's annoying. If I'm in Eco mode and I decide to accelerate ~5kph to gently pass someone, I have to push the pedal so far before the car begins to respond at all that it feels unnatural, and even after 18 months and 25000km I still have the tendency to not push/ not hold the accelerator far enough down for it to respond/ stay at the slightly higher speed that I want than where I have the ACC set to.

 

So, I'd like to program the throttle to have the same initial response (that is, to have to push through rather little distance before it begins to feed more fuel to the engine) in all driving modes, while retaining the tighter or more relaxed (shorter or longer) range through which to push the accelerator pedal to achieve a particular total acceleration.

That's definitely not a feature of the Individual mode configurability in my car, which has only "Drive: Eco/Normal/Sport" which links together the two different aspects of the accelerator pedal as discussed above.

Is there e.g. an OBDEleven/OCDS programmable setting to tweak how far you have to press down on the pedal before it begins to respond, separate from [mode-based how much farther to push the pedal to achieve a given amount of acceleration, and also what RPMs it favors/ when it is programmed to shift down/up]?

 

Not part of my question, just summarising some things I've seen in other threads and comparing to my experience, the Eco mode, if you're driving on gently rolling or flat roads, with no traffic to speak of, and you're staying below about 100kph (sorry UK folks, continental Europe "liters/100km" car here... 😅), then Eco's preference to rev lower and nearly lug the engine, and downshift only when it's really losing speed up a hill, might save a little bit of fuel. But the way it actually works, and my impatience to lose up to 5kph slowly decelerating up hills (one of my big pet peeves is drivers who don't maintain a consistent speed across rolling terrain, as it causes my ACC to get angry. Okay, it causes me to be annoyed; I'm not sure that my ACC gives a ****).

At full highway speeds e.g. French autoroutes and German autobahn at 130kph (and more) my 2.0TDI DSG7 is always in 7th gear and near or above 2000rpm, so Eco mode can't do anything to save fuel unless I end up in dense traffic at lower speeds with plenty of opportunity for Eco's more relaxed ACC acceleration setting to have any effect.

Aside, I've noticed that above about 110kph my fuel burn goes significantly up; the sweet spot is 90kph-100kph, which would add 20%+ to my cross-continent drives on 139kph roads, so, not going to do that...

 

 

thanks,

-Jay

 

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