the dsg is wayyyy more efficient to me since i got it tuned. shifts better and faster.
ya. its not noticeable much when you first get it. . until you have it, and then remove it. (using uniconnect at home) then you see everything you are missing. its like tightening all the bolts on your tranny so it doesnt sound loose anymore.
but D mode sucks and always will. no tune will change that. my car is a dog in D mode, every shift feels like its bogging the whole car down, but its amazing with manual shifts in M mode. wish there wasnt such a ledge there. the D mode shifts too early in every gear, right when you are approaching the power band. thats why it bogs so bad. i want it to shift in D mode like it does in M mode. but i guess there wouldnt be any need for M mode then... but if D mode shifted just like M mode did... i wouldnt need M mode to begin with, and i would stay in D mode.
when you can choose your exact shift points at home, that's when the game will change. i want to test every 250rpm shift point from 2000-5000rpms in D mode to see which one is perfect for my desires. And even have different shift points for each gear. that will never happen, too much risk when customers tune themselves.
D mode
1st gear should shift at 3500
2nd gear should shift at 4500
3rd gear should shift at 5000
4th gear should shift at 5500
(just guesses, i would need to do testing at every rpm for the real numbers.)
i know its all throttle dependent also, and the above is fairly impossible to quantify or reproduce.
And D mode needs the same throttle input setting as M mode. The M mode throttle is a lot more responsive for the distance traveled.