Advice needed
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 3:23 pm
Hi, Being a newbie to the forum and the Scirocco I wondered if someone could perhaps offer some advice or help.
To start with, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a Scirocco R Line from a main dealer which was their ex demonstrator, it has the DSG gearbox and just over 2000 miles on the clock.
It's the first time I've had any experience with a automatic box and whilst I love driving with it I had a strange occurrence with it this morning. I'd stopped at a junction and on pulling away the engine raced like mad and I realised it was stuck in first gear I then slowed up to a crawl and it corrected itself.
When I got back home I rang the service desk at the dealership and the guy there said he too used to have a Scirocco and it happened to him a couple of times and not to worry about it unless it happens a few times. He said you did right to slow up because that usually does the job. That's OK but what happens if it does it at a busy traffic lights in town, I could soon have somebody vanishing up my exhaust pipes. My question is, was this good advice or him just trying to put me off because I'm no expert but I would guess it's probably some kind of software problem rather than a engineering one.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.
To start with, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a Scirocco R Line from a main dealer which was their ex demonstrator, it has the DSG gearbox and just over 2000 miles on the clock.
It's the first time I've had any experience with a automatic box and whilst I love driving with it I had a strange occurrence with it this morning. I'd stopped at a junction and on pulling away the engine raced like mad and I realised it was stuck in first gear I then slowed up to a crawl and it corrected itself.
When I got back home I rang the service desk at the dealership and the guy there said he too used to have a Scirocco and it happened to him a couple of times and not to worry about it unless it happens a few times. He said you did right to slow up because that usually does the job. That's OK but what happens if it does it at a busy traffic lights in town, I could soon have somebody vanishing up my exhaust pipes. My question is, was this good advice or him just trying to put me off because I'm no expert but I would guess it's probably some kind of software problem rather than a engineering one.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.