Picked up ED30 DSG before xmas. Good box, really impressed, but does it tend to labour the engine a tad when it is going uphill, especially lower speeds? I keep flicking down a cog because it seems the revs are too low. Maybe I'm just an over-considerate driver?

cheers, 

Jo

Drive the car in D mode and it selects the gear for economy purposes and therefore higher gears. Choose S mode and you will always have power, but this is sometimes a bit too agressive in town. Both modes to a certain extent "learn" the drivers style of driving and attempt to mirror this in it's automatic gear selection. If you have been driving relatively lazily then the box will mirror that by choosing a higher gear. I noticed this when first running my car in. Since I have finished running in it is a little better, but it still chooses probably one gear higher in D mode than I would idealy like. In S mode the gears are spot on when doing fast B road blasts.

Thnask for response. Also notice its a little too eager to change down 2 cogs when overtaking sometimes (like pulling out to accelerate past some one on a motorway). Find I have to be light -footed or pre-empt by kocking down one onthe paddle. Do yuou find this also? Maybe its still learnig. 4000 miles now.

 Jo

The DSG isn't perfect, that said I've never found it labouring the engine in the higher gears but my GTi is remapped so maybe the extra power and torque means it never gets to that stage. What I do find is that when it kicks down it selects a gear one lower than I would if driving a normal manual. A common scenario is for me to be in  5th on the motorway, select 4th manually and floor it then the damned things drops it into 3rd itself (even with the DSG selector pushed over to manual lock). This may be faster but I hate hearing the engine screaming away like that unless I decided to do it and certainly not on a regular basis.

It means that I rarely give it full throttle sticking instead to progressive application. Perhaps that's a better driving style anyway? 

That's pretty much my thoughts also.

Going to go for a remap at some point. Maybe I'll find I'm not having to move the pedal as much to gert the same acceleration and then find that it doesn't change down as much? 

I've found, the box will change down in different ways depending:

1) how far pedal is pushed

and or then

2) how quickly it's pushed.