3 hours ago, roottoot said:

A DSG & autohold and an e-Brake is a joy IMO.

A Scala or Kamiq with DSG but a manual parking brake might suit people and the KISS principal but for many the new system is fine and works each and every time.

Maintenance is important.

Drove my daughters Fabia dsg the other day. Kept forgetting it had a manual handbrake and had to be driven like my previous Yeti dsg. So much easier now with automatic handbrake! I kept trying to move off from parked with the brake still applied. Quickest way to wear out a dsg dry clutch prematurely as many have done in the past. Much less of an issue with auto brake.

I was once given a lift by a Skoda employee to work when my car was taken in for servicing. It was an Octavia dsg and every time we stopped he applied the handbrake, and waited at say traffic lights in drive with no footbrake applied. Car constantly slipping clutch to stop engine stalling! A dry clutch version. Many owners used to do this as well wearing out dry clutches in only a few thousand miles.

Edited 14 September, 20223 yr by kenfowler3966

That is something i have never seen anyone ever do with a DQ200 DSG with a manual hand / parking brake in the past 12 years of being in many cars with this.

 

A hard slap on the back of the head would have been applied to any total muppet that did do that. 

Does it make any difference whether you hold the car on 'handbrake', footbrake or autobrake. In all cases I assume the engine is potentially dragging the clutch. Surely the only way is to go into neutral every time you stop. Or am I missing something fundamental?

Auto hold functioning, clutches disengage, foot brake applied the clutches disengage, e-brake the clutches are not engaged.

 

Cars still with a Manual Hand Brake  like with a Kamiq, Scala, Fabia and the DQ200 DSG clutches are not dis-engaged when the hand / parking brake is applied and in D or S.