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Old 04-20-2014, 05:57 PM
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Default How do you use your PDK?

Do you use manual or auto?
Do you use paddle or stick for shifting?
How often do you use sport or sport plus ect.?
Old 04-20-2014, 07:05 PM
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Auto mode 99%. I use the paddles if I need a quick downshift to pass. I use sport mode in the city.
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Auto in Normal mode
Manual in Sport / Sport + mode
Old 04-20-2014, 07:43 PM
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I'm using Sport+ 90-95% of the time and shift via the stick most of the time.
If I'm being overly spirited, I tend to use the paddles because I like having two hands on the wheel.
The car is a toy for me and not a DD
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Mostly in normal auto, with sport on 10-15% of the time.

On the highway I will turn the blasphemous auto-start-stop on for coasting.
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Originally Posted by BlackSpeed
I'm using Sport+ 90-95% of the time and shift via the stick most of the time.
If I'm being overly spirited, I tend to use the paddles because I like having two hands on the wheel.
The car is a toy for me and not a DD
+1
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DD. 90% of the time - Sport and manual with MF paddles.

I like the control in the rev range and playing music with the exhaust.
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How I use my PDK:
-In auto 95%
-to get from 0-60 in 4.2sec w/ PSC
-For louche control
-To get higher MPG
-To coast (A little known fact) If you blip both paddle shifters at the same time it goes in to neutral

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Auto 99% of the time.
Auto-Normal on highway for cruising.
Auto-Sport in the city usually.
Manual - 1% - Sport - When I find a fairly empty twisty road.
No Sport Chrono/ Sport + and do not miss it.
Old 04-20-2014, 10:15 PM
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on the Hwy... normal auto most of the time.
On the hwy in traffic.... sport auto
around town... sport and manual

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99% auto
15% normal - 85% sport - 5% sport+ (when cruising with exotics)
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Originally Posted by Jay-S
On the highway I will turn the blasphemous auto-start-stop on for coasting.
Auto start/stop has to be on for coasting to work?
Old 04-21-2014, 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Amalgam
99% auto
15% normal - 85% sport - 5% sport+ (when cruising with exotics)
15 + 85 + 5 = 105
Old 04-21-2014, 01:30 AM
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Hello! First post for me...

I use my PDK in manual about 80% of the time using the buttons, (MF wheel) to change gear.

I only use auto on the motorway (highway) to save fuel.
Old 04-21-2014, 02:21 AM
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I leave my PDK in auto mode 100% of the time but manually shift, usually downshift, at the race track a couple places a lap. This avoids the potential downshift if not in the lowest possible gear when accelerating hard out of a corner. I very rarely manually shift on the street. Since you can easily override the automatic mode, I don't use the manual mode.

When I do manually shift I always use the rocker buttons on the steering wheel. I may be the only one, but I prefer the buttons to the paddles. I can shift up or down with either button regardless of the steering wheel position.

I use normal mode when driving around town or on the freeway, sport mode when driving harder on twisty roads and sports plus only on the track. I find sports plus annoying anyplace else.


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