Dunno if anyone with a vRS tdi fancies testing this out...

On the Leon FR Tdi170, they have a launch control feature, just wondered if the same is enabled on the vRS...

Discovered it this morning

be stationary

select first gear with the clutch depressed

ESP ON

Floor it and the revs will hold constant at 3k

Drop the clutch and bang your off!

Doenst work with the ESP OFF.

Thread on SCN

May give it a go tomorrow. Don't know what swmbo will think though..lol. Might take her by surprise.

Haven't tried it, but have noticed the revs limited at 3k, didnt think it was anyhting fancy, just a way of stopping you rev too hard while not under load...

though i sometimes found the car to rev fully or sometimes limit while stationary...

sounds more like esp stopping you giving it a full-revs take-off.

As for limited revs while stationary: if you hold the brake pedal revs are limited. Could it be that?

i don't think it is myself as the instructions say to depress the clutch and engage first then floor it so it would be quite difficult to hold the clutch down, then floor both the brakes and the accelerator and manage to drop both the clutch and brakes at teh same time.

the fact that sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't could simply be that you have done something slightly wrong but seeing as you didn't know it was a "feature" then obviously you wouldn't have been following a set procedure.

thing is though on the mk5 golf with secret launch control didn't the ecu log everytime it was used and if done too often could invalidate your warranty?

My TDi vRS has this feature, I doubt if it could be described as launch control, though

Dave.

Tried it earlier this evening.

Crap is the best i could describe it...

The instructions in the OP work, it did it everytime when i followed them, but to describe it as "Launch Control" would be pointless. Once you start to pull away, the ESP kicks in and causes the car to bog down, meaning that you look like a tool after sitting there maintaining the 3k and then letting go in an attempt to sprint away.

I CAN do a much better job myself, without any trickery, all i do is turn ESP off, and then the car doesnt bog down when being "launched" as the ESP doesnt apply any braking as the car spins up and pulls away...

I spotted the thread on SCN so had a go at this. As Djgritt describes it's pretty poor, holds three thousand dump the clutch and you still get wheelspin in the wet which activates the TCS with massive axle tramp.

In the dry the revs seem to die when you lift the clutch then builds back up again as if you'd set off normally!

Sounds as, if in the name of 'Mechanical Sympathy', I'll be giving this a miss.

I'll just stick to my own controlled 'launch' with about 2,000 - 2,500rpm to start and swift change to 2nd around 3,500-3,750rpm.

When you've finished testing the drive train to destruction and the dealer declares that the ECU has logged a number of "launch control" starts, let us all know how you get on with the warranty claim. :P

(only pulling your collective legs!)

the ECU logging launch control only applies to the DSG box which has the "proper" launch control.. and thats only the ones with flappy-paddles, so not on Skodas..

Question - regardless of what car... Whats the point of having a "Launch Control" feature if the manufacturer will use it to invalidate warranties?

W@nkers.

Question - regardless of what car... Whats the point of having a "Launch Control" feature if the manufacturer will use it to invalidate warranties?

W@nkers.

I think it was supposed to be a secret on the Golf.

so that they can actually get the manufacturers figures with a standard car

and using it doesn't void the warranty but using it a lot could.

another point is don't worry about blowing up the gearbox on your car mate, your car makes nothing like the power required to break it

Im not worried atall! I cant do much worse than make the engine fall out again...

You get launch control in any DSG car.

I have tried it on two, a 3.2TT and a 1.4 TFSI Golf GT (the one with both Turbocharger and Supercharger) The first had paddles, the second did not.

Put it in sport, floor throttle, take foot off brake, bang head on headrest, watch speed rise, especially in the TT - 100 comes up very quickly!

You get launch control in any DSG car.

I have tried it on two, a 3.2TT and a 1.4 TFSI Golf GT (the one with both Turbocharger and Supercharger) The first had paddles, the second did not.

Put it in sport, floor throttle, take foot off brake, bang head on headrest, watch speed rise, especially in the TT - 100 comes up very quickly!

The vRS TDi doesn't have the option to be fitted with DSG, so this launch control works differently, and is cack.