I'm interested in this one too. Having driven autos for decades, all slush boxes, my last purchase was a Ford "automatic", which is an automated manual. It's kind of ok, in functionality, but as a transmission it's pretty poor. Indeed, very soon after purchase the dual clutch mechanism was replaced under warranty, but it's still not all that, with the odd hesitation, slip, crunch, etc. However, it does creep in traffic and parking, which to me is at least 50% of the point of an auto.
I have been put off the VW brand entirely by reports of the DSG being at least as bad. The nail in the coffin was when a colleague, in 2016, bought his first auto, a DSG equipped Passat. It didn't do any sort of creep - just sat there till you touched the throttle and it lurched forward.
He knew no better, so just got a determined and slightly anxious look on his face every time he parked it, but for me, no creep = no deal.
I don't know if they are all like that, or if it was a switchable option or something, but it looked entirely useless as an auto box to me based on that alone, never mind if it was going to keep working, especially out of warranty.
So, any positive reports of the DSG and handy things like "oh, bless you, you want the crisp'n'dry fourteen speed fimble modded tri-flange rotary version, ALL you have to do is make SURE the car has a vin with a 15 in the middle and isn't red, OBVIOUSLY" would be welcome to me too.
Last edited by: Crankcase on Thu 14 Nov 19 at 10:57
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