Nice looking car that Forester D, no mention of service history in the ad so i'd be checking that with a magnifier.
No i don't think the DSG is a bad box at all, nice on the move, its when they go wrong that the fun begins.
I don't like them for junctions or manouevering nor any other auto clutched box come to that my view was tainted in my old job** trying to fine control the things and failing miserably, the one in the lorry i now have at work is bad enough but that me, others like them.
**I recall helping a fellow driver trying to load an automated manual Fiat 500, the car simply didn't have the guts to pull itself up the lorry deck, the engine would only rev enough for the given clutch pressure, so it just sat there.
So my oppo drove the car just onto the back of the top deck and then jammed the brakes on and sat in, i then lifted the deck up to fully level so he could drive the car into its correct position, gawd knows how one of those contraptions would cope with your Cornish 1 in 4's.
Similar fun and games trying to get some automated manuals out of the stops when trying to unload...again someone sits in the car and a n other ratchets the car out of the stop....yes you guessed it, my lad saw someone doing this on his own, ratchetted the car out whilst standing in front of it, course as soon as it left the stops (my lad tried to stop him doing this but he'd reached the point of no return) the steep incline carried it away, he managed to dive overboard and car carried on till it stopped against another car somewhere away down he compund..:-)
You never ever get a single problem with normal TC autos during such things, infinitely controllable and will provide effortless increasing torque untill you have enough.
Last edited by: gordonbennet on Fri 26 Apr 13 at 21:53
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