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Originally Posted by Citroënbender
It was easy to schmooze the Selespeeds in these situations, the handbrake being cable operated and having no logical input to the PCM. So you used it to gently preload the driveline and achieve a smooth reverse or take-off. |
Thats the problem, you shouldn't need to schmooze stuff, it should just drive properly out the box
With a torque converter auto you press the accelerator or the brake and it drives properly, and it doesn't **** the bed in slow speed suburban driving between traffic lights or reversing up a driveway on an incline.
I'm not sure what engineers fetish is with putting these gearboxes in everything, they should be reserved to performance cars and expensive exotics, the white van that carries 1000kg+ lurching around suburbia doesn't need to change gears in .00000000001 second
Automotive engineers with their DSGs are on par with those feet people I reckon.