OurOcty II goes in for his second annual service on Monday. I'm going to raise a problem about (I guess) the DSG box (2.0 TDi). Three or four times when coming to a stop from a long cruise (at fairly gentle cruising speeds) there has been a great bang as the car came to a stop and the engine stalled. The first time it happened it was so severe we all thought someone had run in to the back of the car. It's also happened once when moving off froma toll booth - again after a long cruise.

My guess is that the twin clutches in the DSG box have somehow got out of synch and are trying to engage simultaneously - or alternatively one is slamming in with no gradual engagement.

Anyone else experienced this? Any idea what the problem might be? We've got a good local Skoda dealer (Motorline Canterbury), butI'd like to be able to give them some sort of steer to the problem.

can't help. Mine has never done anything like that

My dsg banged once while i was switching from first to reverse,

but quick brake and switching to neutral, nothing happened.

Never done that on the road or in speed.

Thanks, Slider - one of the things I wanted to find out was whether our problem was unique.

Not suffered from this in the 20 months I had my PD140 with DSG

6000 miles here and not a sound from the DSG box:(. Hope yours is ok!

I've not heard of any similar DSG issues I'm afraid. :(

62K and no noise from mine

when new, mine used to be very notchy on an occasional downchange from 3rd to 2nd. It was accompanied by 'clunk' noise and a jolt in the ride. went away after a few thousand miles.

How many miles have you done? remember the DSG oil and filter MUST be changed every 40k.

15k on my DSG now and nothing like what you describe chap

25K now on ours never heard anything like you say.

How many miles have you done? remember the DSG oil and filter MUST be changed every 40k.

17,000 miles and the 20,000 miles/2 year service was carried out today. Like everyone else, the garage said they'd never heard of this problem, took it out for a drive and nothing happened, and I'd be happy if it never happened again. But I did say that if it was a persistent fault I'd be putting in a goodwill claim against Skoda since it started happening in warranty.

My (uneducated) guess is that there's an obscure fault in the DSG software. On each occasion of the bang we'd been driving for a long period at 60-70 mph and were either coming to a stop or about to leave from rest. Given that the DSG has two clutches, my sense is that it tried to change into first and second gears simultaneously - which is a no-no. Possibly a temperature-related issue?

Well, I'll let fellow Briskodians know what (if anything) ensues.

Not had this on my new car in 3 months and 4k miles. First couple of k miles were lots of motorway including a 500 mile round trip to Scotland.

How many miles have you done? remember the DSG oil and filter MUST be changed every 40k.

I Just had mine changed at 60k as mentioned in my handbook, it is smoother