Sorry, PDK Owners Only.

What is your favourite gear change?

If we've driven our cars for a while we all have one. Is it UP or DOWN. Is it on the manual side or on the auto side? Is it in Sport, Sport + or Normal Mode?

Here's mine (and let's keep it in this format to make it easy for people as they scan the thread:

2nd ---> 3rd (Sport - Manual)

Under hard throttle, about 6,000 rpm It just smears the power between the two, it's a gorgeous!

 

1- Thank you for this thread =P interesting topic

2- For me:

3rd ---> 4th (Sport - Manual Shifting)

I switch to manual shifts just to get that extra bit of delay in gear changes...uuuuuh the way the car puuuuurs when I do that <3

 

Ditto... And also

3rd ---> 2nd under deceleration (sports)

Love the exhaust crackle as it winds down from ~4krpm in 2nd

 

2nd to 3rd Manually in Sport + when in the city

 

Are you kidding?
7 ---> 3 (Sport or Sport+)
Its a rush.

 

3rd to 2nd coming into a left turn in sport.. automatic or manual..

Then again from a dead stop at a stop light , 1st to 2nd at about 5K+ feels good.

 

YES!


Dave in Dallas

 

2 --> 1
Because I could never heel-toe it smoothly in a manual.

 

6 to 7 at redline.

 

Admittedly, I've never had enough track to do this...

Sounds intriguing. Pics?

 

3 to 2, manual, corner.

BTW, this seems like a good place to ask about delay on the 1 to 2 shift in manual.

When I do a manual shift from 1 to 2 under hard acceleration, there seems to be a slight delay (enough that the rpms go up a few k). I'm not sure, but maybe it takes a quarter second or so. It's certainly not as fast as all the other shifts. Normal?

 

Track? Huh? ...my driveway, usually just before I hit the main road...naaaah just fooling with you all.....seriously, the shift into 2nd that results in a 4000 rpm or above is great....

 

3rd to 2nd in sport/sport+ .... rev matching and PSE it sounds the most amazing

 

WOT, 4th to 5th sweeping past 150 and 3rd to 2nd with rev matching going into a corner under braking.

 

Downshifts under braking into a corner, in Sport mode - manual - shifted with the stick (on my car I get a slightly more aggressive bark /blip with the pdk stick then with the paddles)