July 2010 Paris, France in the event of a car spontaneous combustion accident, the protagonist of the accident is a new generation of Ferrari sports car, Ferrari 458Italia.
    According to the French traffic police department accident investigation and analysis: the vehicle in the city for a long time low speed, causing poor heat spontaneous combustion situation. It can be seen that the incorrect driving habits have become more and more of a direct cause of car trouble.
    October 17, 2009, Volkswagen Group recalled some of the 6-speed DSG transmission of the public, Audi cars. These vehicles loaded with the DSG gearbox, due to the fact that the oil temperature sensor may send an incorrect temperature signal to the control unit, may cause the control unit to start the gearbox protection mode and temporarily interrupt the power output.
    The failure of these cars are mostly occurred in the city section, which also reminds the owners to pay attention to their own driving habits are correct, is not their own driving habits, induced DSG engine failure?
    Correct driving habits driving to reduce the probability of failure
    Home car field, DSG is absolutely new things, and the need for a large number of electronic devices to control. In terms of experience, the probability of failure due to "no previous thought" is very large, including how much heat will be damaged later. For this reason, engineers will certainly adopt a more conservative strategy when setting up temperature sensors.
    According to the principle of DSG transmission work, in the congested section, the clutch will be a long time in a semi-clutch state, easy to overheat. In the process of driving, to minimize the clutch semi-linkage state, control the semi-linked state power output, control the clutch temperature, you can reduce the probability of failure.
    In the city congestion section of the rapid acceleration, grab the road, grab the line, big feet to push the throttle and other sudden driving force driving method, is bound to increase the clutch load, resulting in rapid heating clutch, increasing the probability of failure. This hope that the owners, go out planning a good route, try to avoid into the congested sections, in the congested sections of moderate driving.
    When the vehicle equipped with the DSG is waiting for a signal or traffic jam, some owners often keep the shift lever in the D and press the brake pedal at the same time. If the time is short, this is permissible. But if the parking time is best to change the N range, and tighten the parking brake. Because the shift lever in the D block, DSG transmission car in a semi-linked state, there will be a slight forward. If the brake pedal is pressed for a long time, it is equivalent to forcibly stopping this advance, which keeps the clutch in a semi-interlocking state, accelerates the clutch wear, and the transmission oil temperature rises, which may cause the gearbox to malfunction.
    Long time parking must use handbrake, otherwise it will damage the DSG gearbox locking mechanism. P block and N block difference is that, P gear when the gearbox has a gear bite, it is not only used for parking, and will help the vehicle brake, after stopping the gear must be pushed to the file file, do not hang in N file alone to rely on handbrake to brake. Especially in the slope of the place where parking should be the case.
    Energy conservation
    Advanced technology is only to ensure that vehicles reduce fuel consumption, reduce emissions of the basic conditions, and whether to achieve the best environmental protection and energy saving effect, you need to have a driver driving skills.
    For the DSG transmission driving skills, FAW-Volkswagen new car driver Zhang Bin said, "due to technical reasons, dual-clutch gearbox than the manual gearbox also fuel-efficient, general DSG gearbox with D (normal mode), S (motion mode) And M (manual mode) three working conditions, in order to achieve the purpose of energy conservation, try to use the D mode to drive.
    Failure can not be ignored
    DSG transmission is inseparable from the temperature controller, compared to the transmission downtime brought about by the high temperature burned the loss of the clutch is greater. So when the gearbox alarm, the owner must be timely repair. June 2010 a netizen due to brutal driving led to damage to the DSG gearbox, the manufacturer for his free replacement of the transmission, maintenance documents show a DSG transmission up to 70,000 yuan. Because it is in the warranty period, the users lucky escape the punishment.
    Finally remind owners: for your car, for your pockets, treat your DSG transmission.