Care to elaborate on this? What do you mean with "confuse"?

I'll try to answer for Bullseye in his absence.

The DSG has ho hill-holder functin. The clutch is disengaged only if your foot is on the foot brake. So if you're gong uphill and have stopped with the handbrake on or in neutral and then take your foot of the brake, you'll need to engage the accelerator smartish if you're not to roll backwadrs. (But not too smartish, or you'll punt the car in front up the ....)

No, Milady - if you have your foot on the brake the gearbox clutch disengages. But not if you take your foot off the pedal and put the handbrake on, when it will drag.

Simple to check. Come to a stop with your foot on the brake pedal. Then take foot off - there'll be a half second delay with nothing happening before the clutch engages and the car starts inching forward. If not, you have a problem.

Nope not on my car:( . The transmission is always loaded up a little, even when the footbrake is applied. The car doesn

On the subject of hill holder, I ordered ESP with my Octy and it was supposed to be fitted in that systems software. Sadly I read somewhere that Skoda were having problems making it work so they didn

Nope not on my car:( . The transmission is always loaded up a little, even when the footbrake is applied. The car doesn

Nope, Milady, not on ours. The clutch disengages entirely when we're stationary with the footbrake on, with no forward movement or drag by any measurement or sensory input, then re-engages and picks up slightly about a half a second after taking the foot off the handbrake. No drag whatsoever until then. Why would it be otherwise? Obviously Skoda have connected the brake pedal (i.e. rear light) sensor to the gearbox, as one would expect. They wouldn't want the clutch dragging and wearing itself out at every traffic light, would they? I think not.

If your gearbox does not work as I have described, then I suggest you seek a warranty remedy.....

Any techy care to comment? Lummox, where are you?

One of the fitters at Horners said they do drag a teeny bit, but it was of no consequence to clutch wear. Plus I have noticed it on the 3 DSG cars that I have driven (mine, a test drive car and a loaner when Willberpog was being mended) I know I am not the only DSG driver on here that has noticed this. I would have been able to find the thread but all my subscriptions disappeared last month and I am frightened to do a search for DSG as it will take longer than reading the Wait for it thread.

I do agree it seems odd, hence I asked a fitter for the reason.

One of the fitters at Horners said they do drag a teeny bit, but it was of no consequence to clutch wear. Plus I have noticed it on the 3 DSG cars that I have driven (mine, a test drive car and a loaner when Willberpog was being mended) I know I am not the only DSG driver on here that has noticed this. I would have been able to find the thread but all my subscriptions disappeared last month and I am frightened to do a search for DSG as it will take longer than reading the Wait for it thread.

I do agree it seems odd, hence I asked a fitter for the reason.

yeah I posted on this subject a while back. When stopped of any lenght of time at traffic lights or whatever I alway knock car into neutral or park. Car is then most definately more "relaxed"

Well I am glad you find yours the same as mine, but I gave up arguing.

I still find it a good gearbox under all conditions that I am called upon to drive.

yeah I posted on this subject a while back. When stopped of any lenght of time at traffic lights or whatever I alway knock car into neutral or park. Car is then most definately more "relaxed"

Still might mention it to Horners when it goes in for a service. If it is possible to stop this creep, I

Has anyone used the Manual control of their DSG on a regular basis, I have never even tried it, but one of my sons used it so we know it works?

I tend to knock auto-boxes into manual when I'm driving for pleasure and only stick them back in auto if I get into heavy traffic or round town. Seems to be a fine art to keeping it smooth though and keeping your foot on the gas during changes, rather than lifting off as you would in a manual.

Chris

I tend to knock auto-boxes into manual when I'm driving for pleasure and only stick them back in auto if I get into heavy traffic or round town. Seems to be a fine art to keeping it smooth though and keeping your foot on the gas during changes, rather than lifting off as you would in a manual.

Chris

If one was to play traffic light Grand Prixs, then the manual option is phenomenal. You can change up a little early and ride the torque, but with the advantage of not sounding you are trying too hard whilst revving the bits off the engine. Very funny passing the Halfords sponsored Corsa brigade. At least I imagine all this would be true if you were to try it:O .

At least I imagine all this would be true if you were to try it:O .

Would the auto not do just as good a job from a standstill or does WOT cause it to change up later?

Chris

Would the auto not do just as good a job from a standstill or does WOT cause it to change up later?

Chris

The auto modes rev the car to the red line and as there isn

When Oh When wil Skoda do the vRS with DSG?!!!!!

Mike

with the dsg you have to press the brake to put it into drive sport or reverse when selecting the brake, the brake works as it should so no roll happens.

it has to be your driving cause im not getting roll back in my mothers dsg and neither is my mum.

but there is an factory fitted option known as hillhold control for hills with a great incline drove a combi dsg 2.0tdi 140hp rental car in norway at christmas it had dont know how much it costs though.

with the dsg you have to press the brake to put it into drive sport or reverse when selecting the brake, the brake works as it should so no roll happens.

it has to be your driving cause im not getting roll back in my mothers dsg and neither is my mum.

but there is an factory fitted option known as hillhold control for hills with a great incline drove a combi dsg 2.0tdi 140hp rental car in norway at christmas it had dont know how much it costs though.

Don

When Oh When wil Skoda do the vRS with DSG?!!!!!

Mike

That would be pretty nice, especially if it had the launch control as fitted to DSG VW Golf GTI's in some countries!

I find that if you are to use left foot braking, it's fine to do so long as it is only for a split second while the auto clutch takes up the weight of the car and before the ecu overrides things.

Remember the DSG is basically 2 manual gearboxes that are robotically controlled!

As far as down changing goes - i find it far smoother and more satisfying to manually do it usig the "tiptronic" gate.

Does this mean I may eventually be called upon to give my DSG box its robotic civil rights?

It is already a smarter thinker than me, but for that matter the whole vehicle management system is.

All I need now is a HAL type computer and I have cracked it.

I

But on the bright side, at least it's covered by warranty

Chris

Had my Octy for a few days now so been getting used to DSG for the first time. Reading through this thread I don't know if this has been answered, but I think my car has hill hold, even with DSG.

My previous car was a traditional auto box, so on a hill the majority of the time the creep would hold the car and even on a steep hill it was a quick brake to accelerator move or use the hand brake.

Now reading more about DSG I now know when you release the brake the clutch will take a very short amount of time to engage. So on a steep hill today I did some praticing and took my foot off the brake and the car did not roll back. Then I heard a tiny noise coming from the back, the same as when you take the handbrake off and the car moved forward with a bit of gas.

So am I to deduce from this that my DSG does have hill hold?

Sorry if I've missed the flippin obvious in this post, couldn't see the wood for the trees etc etc :-)

Had my Octy for a few days now so been getting used to DSG for the first time. Reading through this thread I don't know if this has been answered, but I think my car has hill hold, even with DSG.

When I got my Octy with DSG about a year ago, the only way to get Hill Holder was to specify ESP as well. The only problem was, the Hill-Holder was not being installed at the time coz Skoda couldn

When I got my Octy with DSG about a year ago, the only way to get Hill Holder was to specify ESP as well. The only problem was, the Hill-Holder was not being installed at the time coz Skoda couldn

Certainly my Nov 2006 L&K DSG with ESP does not appear to have Hill Hold (based on me releasing the foot brake and being able to drift back slightly), but as I didn't even know it was a possibility until I read this thread, I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

Hi, if you have the most receent L&K which has ESP as standard then you will have hill hold. I think it says so on the Skoda UK site. I have an 2007 L&K, but one just before the recent extra upgrades and I had to specify ESP as an option. I must say I haven't had a problem with starting on hills so far. The DSG box is generally great but I do use manual to get it to change into 6th if doing about 45mph as on auto it needs to hit about 50pmh before 6th engages. Manual lets you change up earlier and it does seem to make a bit of a difference on mpg, but 90% of the time I keep in drive. I haven't found the sport mode much use- more noise , more revs, probably better suited to a revy petrol engine.