Flappy paddles

[wideboybloke]

Is anybody using these much? I thought I'd find them great fun, but the truth is I drive largely by engine note and this car is so damn quiet I can't hear clearly enough what it's doing. Also, the 3 lowest gears are so low the engine seems to overrev well before I sense it's time to change up. I notice that when In auto, at lower speeds it's mostly in 3rd and 4th and 2nd seems hardly used. Does anybody have any advice as to how I can get the hang of manual mode?

 

[Fozzie1960]

On my B8 I drive it like a manual, i.e. anticipate when to change down a gear etc.

 

[AidenL]

Is anybody using these much? I thought I'd find them great fun, but the truth is I drive largely by engine note and this car is so damn quiet I can't hear clearly enough what it's doing. Also, the 3 lowest gears are so low the engine seems to overrev well before I sense it's time to change up. I notice that when In auto, at lower speeds it's mostly in 3rd and 4th and 2nd seems hardly used. Does anybody have any advice as to how I can get the hang of manual mode?

To be honest, I always found it hard to second guess the gearbox - its quite good at what it does, only time I used use paddles was while belting up to a roundabout, and wanted a bit of engine braking to steady things up.

 

[/dev/null]

Never used them yet.

 

[PhxViper]

I'd used them a few times during "spirited" drives. But there was only a few times where I was actually better than the car, the engine in Dynamic / Sport is bang on the money.

The example being blipping down twice coming up to a clear a roundabout and then shooting off the other side. Normally the car would change up going round as your foot wasn't hard planted then you lost acceleration /it would change back down when you were on a straight.

Saying that tho, the car in auto / sport is much more willing to go into red rev range that I am comfortable haha, but that might be because I've been use to driving diesels for the past 5 years.

To answer your question, the more you use it, the more you get a "feel" for the car and you'll know when to use them I guess!

 

[mjcourtney]

There was I was thinking I'd finally pressed every button in the car.... this thread has made me realise I've missed two.....

So far auto mode has been right nearly every time!

 

[cuke2u]

Auto mode is ok however I have found on a couple of occasion the kickdown is sluggish..