jetta TSI DSG query

[bazzle]

I was driving at 11:30 last night, so traffic was pretty light. I did manage to get the box to select 5th gear in S on the M7 motorway last weekend without the cruise control engaged (110kmh), but it would not select 6th by itself...

It prob will if you get over 5k cont.

Bazzle

[tdi guy]

It prob will if you get over 5k cont.

Bazzle

You may be right (you would be going pretty quickly in 5th at 5k...).

IMO the cruise control must override the S mode... if you press the accelerator in cruise in S at 90, the gears drop back to 3 and you get that more aggressive response, and if you lift off the accelerator the cruise control must take over again because the gears shift back down to 5 and 6 again.

Quite a good combination for highway driving (economical cruising most of the time, with instant aggressive acceleration when you need to overtake, etc).

Strangely, when I turned off the cruise and shifted to D, the throttle response seemed less 'instant' than it had been before I did this test... I wonder if it has 're-learned' itself to a more sedate setting?

TG