Stocktastic1
Go Kart Champion
Launch Control at every stoplight.
Or just learn how to drive.
Or just learn how to drive.
how will you get to boost range without pressing the gas? you probably meant letting off the clutch?
I have been complaining about this since I got my GTI in early May. I kept spinning tires in first gear during my test drive and I wasn't sure why.
Try having it with K04 and all of the power just kicks in all of the sudden. I've had to learn, much like plac mentioned, to roll into the acceleration.
This car idles at maybe 700 rpm, but it's not making boost at 700 rpm. If you want to take advantage of small holes in traffic, you have to get the revs up to around 1700 first. If you are moving, you pick the gear that will put you at over 1700 rpm at the speed you're traveling and the throttle response is fine. Or if you're stopped you put it in first, get the revs up and slip it.
Ok, that sounds strange. There's no lag time @ 3K in any gear when I drive my GTI. Does the power eventually kick in?
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I have been complaining about this since I got my GTI in early May. I kept spinning tires in first gear during my test drive and I wasn't sure why. I later figured out it was due to the throttle lag. I've since been able to mitigate it by driving in manual mode (DSG tranny) and lightly applying throttle about a second before I need to actually accelerate, but the lag is still highly annoying.
I'll probably end up wrecking my wife's Honda Fit at some point. The throttle response in that car is instantaneous, and it takes some getting used to after driving the GTI every day.
You keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it does.
How does "throttle lag" translate to "wheels spinning" It's not throtlle lag if you're smoking the tires with no traction.....
I really hate this issue. As stupid as it sounds, I have ordered the Speed Booster thing to try and see if it fixes it.
It does not happen with launch control, so I think it could either be TC (free fix) or the ECU is not getting the right amount of signal fast enough (speed booster will hopefully solve this).
Flame away.
Speed booster or Sprint Booster?
A guy put up a great and very favorable review of this in the 'R' section. Seems to help a lot. Don't know about how much in a GTI.
Very possible, plus I can't drive for shit.
Just made my day with this! Friggen hilarious!
I edited the post - Sprint Booster of course.
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Spinning tires is nothing to do with it all. And the turbo is nothing to do with it too. That all comes after the fact.
My mkv Golf 2.5L auto leaps forward and puts you back in your seat immediately with a little press of the throttle pedal.
On my GTI DSG doing same thing, the car does nothing. Barely responds. Needs more pressure on the throttle for it to move and it gradually starts moving.
Its just different cars with different engines and requiring different driving techniques.
Throttle pedal is not an on off switch.
In a manual it would be easy to eliminate this depending on how skilled you are with combining the throttle and the clutch pedals.
The real solution is to learn your car...
The manual transmission has this issue as well. You can let the clutch out completely without any throttle input and it will creep along at 5-10mph, but then as you depress the accelerator there is a discernible lag before the car accelerates. This is definitely unrelated to the turbo as my wife's 2.0T TSI Tiguan with the 09G has absolutely no pedal dead space.
Mike