ANLoutfi
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Hello all,
I own a 2011 Altea XL in Cairo, Egypt, purchased new last February. It has a 1.6 litre petrol engine and fitted with 7-speed DSG transmission. All was well until November (with just 20,000 kilometres on it!) when it started developing a judder during acceleration in slow stop-go traffic and in reverse. I've found the problem to be more pronounced both when the car is hot (not when leaving for work in the morning for instance) and in u-turns. Around the same time I also started noticing engine pinging when the accelerator is pressed rather abruptly.
I took it to the local authorised dealer last month and brought the matter to their attention but they'd told me there was nothing wrong with the car (a technician had taken in for a short test drive but couldn't reproduce neither the judder nor the pinging).
I took it again to them last week and insisted on a more thorough examination; as a result they've installed a new software 'upgrade', which made the judder less pronounced but I feel the car now shifts more prematurely than it used too (6th gear around 60kmh, 7th at 90) and the ping is still there.
Has anybody experienced this before? Is it a sign that DSG is failing? Can the pinging be another symptom ?(I know that petrol quality is not to blame, I've been filling at the same station for five years, I've also used a good fuel system cleaner- twice).
I've also had another odd experience with it, also around the same time, I was driving on a highway when the car seemed to brake on its own, like two firm but short presses on the brake pedal, and the two ESP amber lights came on + the message 'ESP error'. I pulled over, turned the car off then on again and the message was gone, any ideas what that could've been? I must add that I was driving at 180 kmh.
Cheers,
Ahmed
I own a 2011 Altea XL in Cairo, Egypt, purchased new last February. It has a 1.6 litre petrol engine and fitted with 7-speed DSG transmission. All was well until November (with just 20,000 kilometres on it!) when it started developing a judder during acceleration in slow stop-go traffic and in reverse. I've found the problem to be more pronounced both when the car is hot (not when leaving for work in the morning for instance) and in u-turns. Around the same time I also started noticing engine pinging when the accelerator is pressed rather abruptly.
I took it to the local authorised dealer last month and brought the matter to their attention but they'd told me there was nothing wrong with the car (a technician had taken in for a short test drive but couldn't reproduce neither the judder nor the pinging).
I took it again to them last week and insisted on a more thorough examination; as a result they've installed a new software 'upgrade', which made the judder less pronounced but I feel the car now shifts more prematurely than it used too (6th gear around 60kmh, 7th at 90) and the ping is still there.
Has anybody experienced this before? Is it a sign that DSG is failing? Can the pinging be another symptom ?(I know that petrol quality is not to blame, I've been filling at the same station for five years, I've also used a good fuel system cleaner- twice).
I've also had another odd experience with it, also around the same time, I was driving on a highway when the car seemed to brake on its own, like two firm but short presses on the brake pedal, and the two ESP amber lights came on + the message 'ESP error'. I pulled over, turned the car off then on again and the message was gone, any ideas what that could've been? I must add that I was driving at 180 kmh.
Cheers,
Ahmed
