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New PDK Gear Selector

JSmoove

JSmoove

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Hi all,

New here. I've had a couple of 3.4L 987's and currently run a 981 2.7

I just want everyone's view on the look of the VW group's auto gear selector...the little 'USB stick', or the 'chode' as I call it.

I'm of the old fashioned, analogue persuasion - NA engines, manuals etc. I can't help but think such a little gear selector does not belong in cars with sporting intentions!

JSL
 
Welcome.

Porsche have the dongle on the 992 PDK. However, I am being converted to the idea of buttons on the console rather than a selector, getting rid of it altogether. Paddles are there for manual selection so I have never found a use for the lever other than to select drive or reverse.

But then I changed from a PDK to a manual gearbox for my Cayman, but kept the VW Double clutch box for the family wagon. (And it still has the big lever - can't win!)

 
I’m afraid that I’m also a member of the ancient and dying Manual-Shifter Tribe. [:(]

Agreed, it’s a sad state of affairs to see that USB dongle on the 992 to which John refers. Totally out of place on a sports car in my view, but we are where we are and most drivers won’t even think about using it to shift gears, preferring to use the paddles … assuming that they even bother to do that except on rare occasions!

On top of that, until recently its operation has been totally counterintuitive nonsense: push to change-up; pull to change-down (GT3 excepted), although that convention may now have been reversed.

Jeff

 
I agree John it’s no biggie in practical terms, as paddles are the norm now (however I did enjoy giving the aluminium selector a forceful shove to the left, when the mood struck in my old PDK car).

I just can’t help but feel like it’s a cost saving thing - why pay for metal selectors when a little rocker switch will do!

It just doesn’t look special enough, if you paid 100k for a 911, and get the same switch from a golf....

 
I think we need to consider here whether the gear selector looks tiny because 992s are so BIG!

 
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