Discuss: 7-speed DSG in 2019-2020 MK7.5 GTI

[jimlloyd40]

Weird. I knew the car was tuned by the prior owner through IE. I contacted them and it was a stage 2 crackle, which it thankfully does not do and there's no way it still has a stage 2 in it currently, but he must have left the DSG tune? Is that even possible? I will have to touch base with IE and see. I may need to buy a powerlink and see what is going on.

Sorry I don't know how IE works.

 

[Ghost GTI]

Weird. I knew the car was tuned by the prior owner through IE. I contacted them and it was a stage 2 crackle, which it thankfully does not do and there's no way it still has a stage 2 in it currently, but he must have left the DSG tune? Is that even possible? I will have to touch base with IE and see. I may need to buy a powerlink and see what is going on.

Separate tunes. 100% possible that they only reverted the ECU tune and left the TCU.

 

[gixxerfool]

Separate tunes. 100% possible that they only reverted the ECU tune and left the TCU.

Oh. I wasnt aware of that.

 

[dequardo]

Having had several 6sp and 7sp MK7 DSGs I’d take the 7sp 10 out of 10 times.

 

[Dog Dad Wagon]

I’ve owned a 2011 DQ250 CC, 2015 DQ250 GTI, and had a 2019 DQ381 GTI loaner for a month 2 years ago. I liked the DQ381 in S mode for daily driving more than any of the modes (D/S/M) in either my GTI/CC.

In fact a big reason I didn’t get the DSG on my current Alltrack was because it was a DQ250, not a 381.

 

[RabbitTwo]

 

[Keehs360]

All that bullshit and he didn't once mention amax mode.

I dunno what a stock 7 speed feels like. As soon as I hit 1k miles I reflashed the dsg and ECU. But as it stands I dig it. No issues to report.

What I find interesting about the dq381 is that in the s3 and r it farts. But in the GTI it doesn't. There's a rumbly gurgly sound instead of farts in part throttle in s mode. But no actual farts. I wonder why

I don't trust the 80k service myself. At all. But that's just me I suppose.

 

[RabbitTwo]

Which tune(s) did you go with? @Keehs360

 

[Keehs360]

Which tune(s) did you go with? @Keehs360

Sorry. Forgot to mention. Apr

 

[averyislost]

All that bullshit and he didn't once mention amax mode.

I dunno what a stock 7 speed feels like. As soon as I hit 1k miles I reflashed the dsg and ECU. But as it stands I dig it. No issues to report.

What I find interesting about the dq381 is that in the s3 and r it farts. But in the GTI it doesn't. There's a rumbly gurgly sound instead of farts in part throttle in s mode. But no actual farts. I wonder why

I don't trust the 80k service myself. At all. But that's just me I suppose.

I was just wondering this as well. Definitely have not heard any DSG farts on my '20 (I'm not tuned or anything). But I know I've seen plenty of 7-speed Golf R videos on youtube of just exhaust swaps and theirs are farting up a storm

 

[Keehs360]

I was just wondering this as well. Definitely have not heard any DSG farts on my '20 (I'm not tuned or anything). But I know I've seen plenty of 7-speed Golf R videos on youtube of just exhaust swaps and theirs are farting up a storm

The dq381 is basically a nerfed version of the dq500. And I know the Gti’s dq381 is a further nerfed version of the r’s and s3’s version

the working theory was noise reduction due to some European countries requiring that