supermanus
New member
- Location
- Netherlands
- Car(s)
- Golf R 2016
Hi all, let me first introduce my car before I try to explain the issue. Since couple months now I own a Golf R MK7, 2016 with milage of 86k (kms). It's my go to car when I need to feel like I'm 22 again haha. The previous owner installed a Remus exhaust with no resonated catback. The sound is awesome () when driving in s mode, while in drive it's fairly modest.
Right after I purchased the car I did the usual maintenance, also installed a smaller set of winter tyres. Which is obligatory in Germany - I myself live in the Netherlands near Germany Now the less fun part. When in do full throttle in S mode, there is a huge lag when shifting through 1,2 and 3. The car is really holding itself, loosing some momentum before shifting and then going bananas again.
Let me sum it up for better understanding
- only happens in s mode with kickdown.
- no lag when using s mode without going all in
- drive mode there is no lag at all whatsoever, shifts beautifully as a dsg should do. With or without kickdown!
- using the flippers no lag whatsoever, but I suspect using "manual" is same as drive mode
- car has pop and bang mode (is this the correct term?)
- no faulty codes with odbeleven
- already visited two dealers but they told me it could be anything and said let's do a dsg flush but with no guarantee if it will solve it
- tire change from 19" to 18", car sits lower now and due to the tire I do get a lot of traction error when going bananas
Now smth important to mention. For the tire change I dropped the car at VW. They called me that the car could get an update because of some recall issue. I declined but it feels to me they did it anyway. Ofc I can't confirm this.
This week I'll prob visit one of the best VW tuners in Holland, get the car diagnosed by them. But it bugs me for couple days now and the only thing I do is try to find if others had have this issue or heard about it
Right after I purchased the car I did the usual maintenance, also installed a smaller set of winter tyres. Which is obligatory in Germany - I myself live in the Netherlands near Germany Now the less fun part. When in do full throttle in S mode, there is a huge lag when shifting through 1,2 and 3. The car is really holding itself, loosing some momentum before shifting and then going bananas again.
Let me sum it up for better understanding
- only happens in s mode with kickdown.
- no lag when using s mode without going all in
- drive mode there is no lag at all whatsoever, shifts beautifully as a dsg should do. With or without kickdown!
- using the flippers no lag whatsoever, but I suspect using "manual" is same as drive mode
- car has pop and bang mode (is this the correct term?)
- no faulty codes with odbeleven
- already visited two dealers but they told me it could be anything and said let's do a dsg flush but with no guarantee if it will solve it
- tire change from 19" to 18", car sits lower now and due to the tire I do get a lot of traction error when going bananas
Now smth important to mention. For the tire change I dropped the car at VW. They called me that the car could get an update because of some recall issue. I declined but it feels to me they did it anyway. Ofc I can't confirm this.
This week I'll prob visit one of the best VW tuners in Holland, get the car diagnosed by them. But it bugs me for couple days now and the only thing I do is try to find if others had have this issue or heard about it
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