Dsg broken

[MRICHI]

The DSG gearbox on my 2010 147 Tiguan decided to stop working yesterday, we were heading out for a drive just got 2km out of town when it jumped out of gear into neutral.

I did manage to get manage to limp home but on have 2nd and 4th grears . The gear indicator light is flashing with a spanner on it and the engine light is on.

Took it to the dealer today they are waiting to hear back from Sydney to see if it needs a new Mactronic unit ? or new clutches if they have parts in Sydney it will be ok but iam not holding my breath.

The Tig has done 24,000 km with no other probs so far.

I was pretty confident ordering the DSG as i have a Caddy van 111,000km with no issues at all . I have a Newsagency and we use the Caddy to deliver newspapers so it gets a pertty good work out . I have read other stories of DSG issues no I have experianced it.

But still a great car I love it

Mark

---------- Post added 28-01-2012 at 10:21 AM ---------- Previous post was 27-01-2012 at 01:47 PM ----------

Good news, Bad News, dealer confirmed yesterday that the Mactronic unit needs to be replaced, Good news , there is one in stock in Sydney.
Hope to have the car back by Wednesday, expensive repair for VW i think.

[Pullstarter]

Luckily it happened whilst under warranty.

[team_v]

Thankfully it was under warranty.
I like the idea of the DSG box but i don't like the thought of having my car fail on me and cost a boat load to fix.

[Njay]

A mate who works at Mazda weribee told me they get heaps of vw trade ins with screwed gearbox and they can't do anything with.them apart from auction them

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[MRICHI]

I do like the 7 speed DSG ,quick shifting , good fuel economy, but now my Tig 147 has broken the DSG with just 24,000km iam a little worried about my Caddy Van 1.9 DSG with 110,000km om the clock . To date ive had no issues at all , but iam starting to think should i trade it as mine is now out of warranty. The Caddy is my work bus and is perfect for the job I was originaly thinking of keeping the Caddy for 250,000-300,000km . But now Iam not so sure maybe iam better to trade it now for another Caddy and keep it until the warranty runs out

[clip]

hmmm, I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands dsg's running around with hundreds of thousands of k's on them. They really can't be that bad / unreliable. Only issue is, they can be expensive to repair - but this isn't unique to VW, they all are these days.