Over the last few years and particularly the last few months my left Arthritic knee is getting more painful and thus making clutch operation literally a pain over even modest car journeys.
I have toyed with the idea of perhaps exchanging my 3 year old MK & 1.4 PetrolGolf for one with the infamous DSG transmission.
My friend raves about his two year's old Golf Estate with the DSG box but on the Internet, I cannot find really find many articles that have anything good to say about these types of mechanism in contrast to the good old slush boxes with torque converters. And I doubt that whether at nearly 82 years old, I could ever really adapt to an Auto (or semi-auto) whereby one seems to lose a certain amount of fine control in awkward and confined spaces.
With DSG, I have read about its problems with overheating clutches and jerkiness in the very conditions where I would welcome a clutchless car ie. slowing moving traffic etc and creeping along especially up inclines.
Obviously, everyone keeps on telling me to go for a test drive but knowing the brevity of these at least from my local VW dealers, that wouldn't tell me an awful lot.
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