I'm not far off a month into ownership now and enjoying my recent acquisition - my 997.2 C4 coupe. 
The only thing that I have any reservation about is the way PDK behaves. It doesn't seem quite how it did in test drives and early drives but I realise that could just be me changing and becoming more aware, not the car.
I talked to the sales guy about Sport upgrade and he felt that once I learned how to use the PDK box I wouldn't need it. He showed me little tricks like how you can blip the throttle to change down a gear or two.
So some questions:
- when you accelerate do you ever get a sensation a bit like a slipping clutch (or is that just the nature of the smooth changes and how they sound)? I do wonder whether the sound gives you a sense that power delivery isn't as instantaneous as it actually is?
- if you blip the throttle for a change down (I think the bigger the blip the more downshifts you get - and I'm not talking about kickdown here) sometimes it works really smoothly and sometimes it just feels like you pressed the accelerator so it revs more and jumps forward a bit - as you'd expect with a traditional transmission or in M.
- in the drivers' manual it makes reference to responding to your driving behaviour - is that instantaneous or over a period of time?
Part of me just thinks I need to get to know this clever piece of kit and perhaps not expect so much magic, but part of me has read about resetting the mappings and topping up the gearbox oil and other typical scary Internet forum threads.
How have other people found their PDK - was it what you expected? Have you learned any neat tricks?
The only thing that I have any reservation about is the way PDK behaves. It doesn't seem quite how it did in test drives and early drives but I realise that could just be me changing and becoming more aware, not the car.
I talked to the sales guy about Sport upgrade and he felt that once I learned how to use the PDK box I wouldn't need it. He showed me little tricks like how you can blip the throttle to change down a gear or two.
So some questions:
- when you accelerate do you ever get a sensation a bit like a slipping clutch (or is that just the nature of the smooth changes and how they sound)? I do wonder whether the sound gives you a sense that power delivery isn't as instantaneous as it actually is?
- if you blip the throttle for a change down (I think the bigger the blip the more downshifts you get - and I'm not talking about kickdown here) sometimes it works really smoothly and sometimes it just feels like you pressed the accelerator so it revs more and jumps forward a bit - as you'd expect with a traditional transmission or in M.
- in the drivers' manual it makes reference to responding to your driving behaviour - is that instantaneous or over a period of time?
Part of me just thinks I need to get to know this clever piece of kit and perhaps not expect so much magic, but part of me has read about resetting the mappings and topping up the gearbox oil and other typical scary Internet forum threads.
How have other people found their PDK - was it what you expected? Have you learned any neat tricks?
