Hi I’m loving the DSG as my first auto , yesterday in a traffic jam I realised I was using the brake on a steep uphill to keep speed to 1mph. The revs were idling, no juddering at all , so is the DSG slipping the clutch or is there some other mechanism allowing this? 

Sorry, I can’t explain the intricacies of how the DSG thinks. 

 

But I can say my wife and I have been driving 8 VAG DSG cars since 2011 and have never encountered any problems with the transmission.

 

As a retired engineer, I do reckon the clutches must be slipping or else the car would shudder to a standstill, like old school clutches. It’s the only logical option.

 

We love ‘em.

Yeah it’s great isn’t it, I started to wonder if this magical slipping was actually not a good idea in a long steep queue so i let it stop and did a series of short normal 4mph crawls like I would in a manual car , felt like some heat was going to be generated somewhere otherwise. 

( I tried some general googling but all I found was dsg horror stories!)

I don't know anythign about the official technicalities, but based on what I've read and my own experience, I'd say it's certainly capable of slipping the clutch when necessary.  I also notice the difference between being stationary in D and being stationary in N; D drags on the engine very slightly and N not at all.  I beleive this has to be down to the clutch feathering when stopped in D, which suggests to me it's absolutely capable of slipping the cltuches when it has to.

49 minutes ago, Dappernut said:

I don't know anythign about the official technicalities, but based on what I've read and my own experience, I'd say it's certainly capable of slipping the clutch when necessary.  I also notice the difference between being stationary in D and being stationary in N; D drags on the engine very slightly and N not at all.  I beleive this has to be down to the clutch feathering when stopped in D, which suggests to me it's absolutely capable of slipping the cltuches when it has to.

 

It does slip the clutches. But when stationary with foot firmly on the brake the pressure is low

 

 

Oh cool thanks I shall take a look the dsg is just amazing still love it