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Car Forum / Volkswagen / Water Cooled Volkswagen Cars / August 2008

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VW DSG Transmission??

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Hammer - 18 Aug 2008 16:09 GMT
In the USA, does the Passat (gas) come with a DSG transmission or does
VW call it buy another name? On the VW web site, the transmission in a
Passat is call "AQ Transmission".  I see that Audi calls the DSG
transmission "S-Tronic". How can I be sure I am getting a DSG
transmission in a VW product?
Willy - 19 Aug 2008 02:08 GMT
> In the USA, does the Passat (gas) come with a DSG transmission or does
> VW call it buy another name? On the VW web site, the transmission in a
> Passat is call "AQ Transmission".  I see that Audi calls the DSG
> transmission "S-Tronic". How can I be sure I am getting a DSG
> transmission in a VW product?

My Jetta has DSG, and it was called "tiptronic" on the new car sticker.

Wes
Craig - 19 Aug 2008 02:39 GMT
No DSG is not avail on the Passat in the US or CAN. Only the 09G 6speed
tranny.

DSG is avail on the GTI & the Jetta Deisel. STAY AWAY on the diesel. They
can't handle the torque & have been blowing up the "flywheel/torque
convertor" pretty frequently

Craig

> In the USA, does the Passat (gas) come with a DSG transmission or does
> VW call it buy another name? On the VW web site, the transmission in a
> Passat is call "AQ Transmission".  I see that Audi calls the DSG
> transmission "S-Tronic". How can I be sure I am getting a DSG
> transmission in a VW product?
Willy - 22 Aug 2008 02:44 GMT
> No DSG is not avail on the Passat in the US or CAN. Only the 09G 6speed
> tranny.
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>> transmission "S-Tronic". How can I be sure I am getting a DSG
>> transmission in a VW product?

My 09 Jetta TDI , although DSG, is hopefully going to prove you wrong!!!
LOL

I've read and been told that parts (flywheel) has had revisions.

Willy
Craig - 22 Aug 2008 03:24 GMT
Thats the wrong way to think of it. You should be hoping it lasts till just
before the warranty is up then lets go. Cause you would end up with a fresh
flywheel & tranny as well.

Craig

>> No DSG is not avail on the Passat in the US or CAN. Only the 09G 6speed
>> tranny.
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> Willy
Jim Behning - 22 Aug 2008 12:36 GMT
With a 40-50,000 mile or even 60,000 mile warranty the last thing I
would want is failure at 59,000 miles. I have almost 200,000 miles on
my 2003 with a manual tranny. I sure would not want to install a new
tranny every 2 years. That would just be stupid. Somone posted that
the service interval for a dsg is 40,000 miles. That means a fluid
change every 40,000 miles which some dealers seem to not know how to
do.

>Thats the wrong way to think of it. You should be hoping it lasts till just
>before the warranty is up then lets go. Cause you would end up with a fresh
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>> Willy
Craig - 23 Aug 2008 01:23 GMT
LOL the fluid change isn't too bad. Most dealers never even knew about the
fluid change.
Its was never mentioned during any of the training for the vehicles that
were equiped with the DSG. If I remember correctly though it was 40k kms in
Canada which is even worse.

> With a 40-50,000 mile or even 60,000 mile warranty the last thing I
> would want is failure at 59,000 miles. I have almost 200,000 miles on
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>>> Willy
 
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