The dry clutch DSG7 has had a lot of problems the commonest of which was due to having been filled with synthetic oil on the production line because when this gets very hot it becomes conductive and ...

Learn all about DSG tuning and how it can enhance your vehicle's performance. This guide explains what a DSG tune is and how it affects your driving experience, including key benefits for shifting and ...

As far as automatic gearboxes for small cars are concerned, Volkswagen Group's DQ200 is quite an important but controversial unit. Equipped by a variety of different models since first developed, the ...

Volkswagen’s Double Shift Gearbox has proven a true success story for the carmaker on the global market. A total of 3.4 million units have been produced at the Kassel Plant alone for the group’s ...

The six-speed wet clutch DSG is by far the more reliable. But the seven-speeders are failing whether they have had the fluid change or not. Of course, if the fluid was changed from mineral to ...

My 2009 VW Passat 118TSI DSG wagon was purchased as a demo. Whilst under warranty the transmission began to shudder shifting from first to second from a standing start. The Mechatronic unit was ...

The talk is that it was only the 7-speed DSG gearbox that had the false-neutral problem, but we also experienced it in the 2009 Golf diesel with the high-torque 6-speed we owned. It happened to us ...

I have a new Volkswagen Golf with a DSG gearbox. On collecting the car I noticed it was failing to change gear at high revs but the selling dealer could find nothing wrong. Then the problem worsened.